Which US states border the most states?

Missouri and Tennessee share the lead with 8 neighboring regions each in the border graph behind Bordlr.

Ranked below are the 50 states by the number of regions they share a land border with. The District of Columbia is not a state, so it is excluded from the ranking, but it is counted as a neighbor where it appears in the graph. Ties are listed alphabetically. Water-only neighbors do not count.

Rank	State	Neighbors	Which regions?
1	Missouri	8	Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nebraska
2	Tennessee	8	Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia
3	Kentucky	7	Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia
4	Arkansas	6	Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana
5	Colorado	6	Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska
6	Idaho	6	Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Nevada
7	Iowa	6	Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nebraska
8	Nebraska	6	Colorado, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Missouri, Iowa
9	Oklahoma	6	Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, New Mexico, Arkansas
10	Pennsylvania	6	New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Ohio
11	South Dakota	6	Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska
12	Virginia	6	North Carolina, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee
13	Wyoming	6	Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho
14	Georgia	5	Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina
15	Illinois	5	Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, Wisconsin
16	Maryland	5	Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Virginia
17	Massachusetts	5	Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island
18	Nevada	5	Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, Idaho
19	New York	5	Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont
20	Ohio	5	Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan
21	Utah	5	Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada
22	West Virginia	5	Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia
23	Alabama	4	Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee
24	Arizona	4	New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada
25	Indiana	4	Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio
26	Kansas	4	Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska
27	Minnesota	4	North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin
28	Mississippi	4	Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana
29	Montana	4	North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho
30	New Mexico	4	Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas
31	North Carolina	4	Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina
32	Oregon	4	California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada
33	Texas	4	Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana
34	Wisconsin	4	Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan
35	California	3	Arizona, Oregon, Nevada
36	Connecticut	3	Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island
37	Delaware	3	New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
38	Louisiana	3	Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi
39	Michigan	3	Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin
40	New Hampshire	3	Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont
41	New Jersey	3	Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York
42	North Dakota	3	Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana
43	Vermont	3	Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York
44	Florida	2	Alabama, Georgia
45	Rhode Island	2	Massachusetts, Connecticut
46	South Carolina	2	Georgia, North Carolina
47	Washington	2	Oregon, Idaho
48	Maine	1	New Hampshire
49	Alaska	0	None
50	Hawaii	0	None

Counts come from the same state-border data used by the daily game. Open a state for its border details, or explore neighbors on the map.

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