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There are only a few US states in which EVERY border is defined by a line of latitude or

longitude; normally the state borders represent some physical feature such as a river or

mountain range. Look for perfectly straight lines; those are defined by latitude or

longitude. Curvy borders are normally rivers.

Some of the straight borders are famous; for example, in the 1760's, two famous

surveyors named Mason and Dixon surveyed the border between Pennsylvania and

Maryland. Most people have heard of the "Mason-Dixon Line", but don't know where it is.

The term "Dixie" as meaning the southeastern United States may have come, at least in

part, by the north/south division of the American colonies by the Mason-Dixon line.

There's probably not a single state, with the possible exception of Hawaii, that doesn't

use latitude and longitude to define some portion of its border, since any formal land

survey will return its results in terms of the geographic coordinates of the significant

points along the boundary of the property.

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