All 50 states by average elevation above sea level (2012) (thelemmy.club)

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[-] negativenull@piefed.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Shit flows downhill! Suck it!

-Colorado

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Suck it Wyoming!

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Neither one of you are

(I'm assuming you're in Colorado)

[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Neither one of you are what?

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sorry. I let internet memes influence a joke response. The .gif was the "Noice (nice)" guy because neither state was at a 6900ft average. Wyoming being at 6700ft and Colorado being at 6800ft.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Landlocked states have an advantage because there’s not a lot of land near 0 elevation.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

FL & LA the closest thing to the The Netherlands, then?

And then look how they vote. XD

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Delaware is closer.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

in more than one way

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Elevation, climate, distance, and politics.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, shoot.

[-] krellor@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Delaware is pretty much a sandbar with corn off of Maryland's coast.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Delaware - we got corn, we got oysters and we got heroin. Now, get to shuckin.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

How the hell is Alaska at half the elevation of Hawaii? There's like a shit load of mountains in Alaska

[-] proudblond@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Average. There’s a shit ton of mountains (volcanoes) in Hawaii too and it does not take long to go from peak to beach.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nevada is also the most mountainous US state in terms of the amount of mountain ridges / elevation changes, but that does not mean that the mountains are particularly tall. They have no 14ers, unlike Colorado, but less flat area overall

[-] figjam@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hawaii is 100% old volcanos

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Colorados in fucking space

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is the second link that I’m unable to see mBin. What’s the reason?

[-] Innerworld@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure, but the URL is the image’s address. You can easily get to it in a browser by clicking the title of the post on Lemmy.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sad to say, there is no image either.

Something specific to this instance perhaps as other lemmy instances show images with posts.

Though not your issue, thanks for replying. The post sounded interesting.

[-] Innerworld@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/us-states-by-average-elevation.webp

[-] Innerworld@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/average-elevation-of-every-u-s-state/

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