Die US-Bundesstaaten werden danach sortiert, wie viel Fläche sie unter Berücksichtigung der Topographie gewinnen. Vom flachsten (Kansas) zum hügeligsten (Washington)

Washington gains a whopping 5.27% of surface area through its topography. With my data sources (State boundaries from geoBoundaries, 30m resolution Digital Elevation Model from Copernicus) this actually puts Washington 3 places ahead in the ranking of states by surface area, overtaking North Dakota, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Analysis was done through Google Earth Engine, Visualization through QGIS.

This is one of the reasons that Kansas is the most boring state in the country – it’s amazing that it’s even flatter than Florida!

One map that MS or LA is not last (or first).

NV seems unusually low, especially if WV is that high.

I thought Florida and Delaware were the top contenders for “flattest state”, depending on how you measure.

And having driven the lengths of DE, FL ***and*** Kansas, I know Kansas is ***much*** hillier than either Delaware or Florida.

Great information – thanks for posting! This gives quantitative backing for what we all intuitively know – the west is by far the most interesting part of the country topographically. And I believe the west’s more interesting topography attracts more intrepid and interesting people too!

Very surprised PA is higher than NY

West Virginia does not suprise me in the least.

I personally believe it is why economic development is so hard- there is no where flat to build things!