Posted on 04/08/2014 11:52:28 AM PDT by blam
This Incredible Map Shows Just How Gigantic Texas Really Is
Pamela Engel
April 8, 2014, 1:42 PM
Texans like to talk all the time about how big Texas is, and how if you're driving from the bottom of Texas to Canada, then you're spending half of your time just getting through the state itself.
So is that true? It's pretty close. Texas really is gigantic.
Redditor Armeleon put together a map that gives you a good idea of the massive size of Texas.
Texas spans about 800 miles from north to south. Everything seen in red on the map is closer than 791 miles to Texas (the longest straight-line distance in Texas from north to south is actually 801 miles, but Armeleon used 791 miles as a benchmark to create the map).
Check it out:
It's mind-boggling to think that, for example, Corpus Christi is closer to Cuba than it is to Denver.
It's worth noting that the map above is slightly distorted because it is flat and the world is spherical. The size and shape of objects seen on a flat map aren't exact.
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Oh, you’ll need to visit the local shops. Texans are allowing it. The Federal government works for us, not the other way around anything that happens is allowed by the citizens.
Alaska is three of the four.
Wow! The US really is big !
Also El Paso is closer to the San Monica pier than to Beaumont, Texas.
So? ;^}
Never ask a man if he’s from Texas. If he is, he’ll tell you.
If he isn’t, don’t embarrass him.
Texas Ping - BUMP
You are not fool’in me. I have been to Lubbock!
Why is Texas so big?
You need all that room if you let all the BS out of Texans.;-)
The problem is that Texans actually believe all of it.
“You all can go to Hell. I’m goin’ to Texas!” —David Crockett
El Paso to Houston is 736 miles. Approximately a 10.5 hour drive.
We're just an average state with funny looking animals, fire ants and scorpions. Nobody should come here. In fact, many should leave the state completely.
I get 10 hours and 10 minutes from Monroe Michigan to Ironwood Michigan. About 625 miles.
A subscriber to Readers Digest reported this: "During WWI, there was a drive for some charity on base. To generate some competition, they put up two gallon-size buckets labeled 'North' and 'South'. The next day, a 5-gallon bucket showed up with the word 'Texas' on it."
The drive from the Texas South Brownsville Border crossing to the Northwest corner border into New Mexico is 901 miles.
Bingo! Hawaii is the most south. Alaska is most North, West and East.
Can you link to a map which shows the east part
Two Texans were walking along a road and came to a bridge over a stream. They stopped to take a leak. The first one said "Ooh! this stream is cold!" The second one said, "Deep, too!"
The Aleutian Islands are in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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