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Can You Draw a Map of the United States?

Do you think you could draw a fairly accurate map of the United States? Could you get all 50 states in there without looking them up? Turns out a lot of us Americans are geographically challenged, which is a polite way of saying they couldn’t find Nebraska if you stuck a cornhusk up … where the sun don’t shine. And Idaho? Huh? And the Great Lakes, well they’re just a problem.

Buzzfeed has an entertaining collection of various Americans’ attempts to draw a map of the U.S.

Here’s one:

Here’s another:

And here’s my attempt. It’s harder than you think, especially up there in New England where all those tiny little states are squished together. And yes, I think I left out Massachusetts.