Researchers at Texas State University and Arizona State University compared the flatness of Kansas to a pancake and found that Kansas is actually flatter. Geographers at the University of Kansas later determined that Kansas is the seventh flattest state in the US, with Florida being the flattest.
Cross-country skiers discovered a long time ago that Kansas is a flat state, but is it “flat as a pancake”? It’s just a figure of speech, of course, but in 2003 a team of researchers at Texas State University and Arizona State University thought this question was worthy of study. They ordered the IHOP pancakes, cut them up and measured them out. The researchers found that the pancake had a flatness value of 0.957, while the Kansas flatness measured 0.9997. So, it turns out Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake.
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In 2014, geographers at the University of Kansas found that Kansas is actually the seventh flattest state in the United States, when expressed as a percentage of flat land in all of a state’s land.
The most recent research was published in Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Geographical Society. He determined that the flattest state is actually Florida.
Five other states are even flatter than Kansas: Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware.
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