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[Miles]

how many counties can you name/identify off the top of your head?


My results:

NC: 74/100 counties

LA: 47/64 parishes

[Brittain33]

Massachusetts: 12/12, since I can tell Franklin from Hampshire from Hampden.

[Torie]

I fall down with the Sierra foothill and NE corner counties, so maybe around 45 of the 58 CA counties perhaps.  I can name all the SoCal counties though. 

I wonder if Sam Spade can identify all 254 Texas counties.  He claims he knows the state like the back of his hand.

[Vazdul (Formerly Chairman of the Communist Party of Ontario)]

21/21. New Jersey is easy.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I can get the important ones in Pennsylvania. Off the top of my head:

Philadelphia
Montgomery
Lehigh
Bucks
Delaware
Chester
Lancaster (where I am)
Adams
York
Lebanon
Centre
Clinton
Erie
Allegheny
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Greene
Fayette
Washington
Beaver
Cumberland
Berks
Pike
Crawford
Cambria
Elk
Forest
Columbia
Dauphin
Schuykill
Indiana
Westmoreland

So, 32/67.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

21/21 of Sweden's counties.

[CultureKing]

36 of 39. stupid Eastern Washington counties with nearly no one living in them...

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

States I've lived in:

All in Massachusetts
All in Vermont
All in New Jersey

Most downstate/lower Hudson counties in New York, all but a couple in Connecticut and New Hampshire, all in Rhode Island (which is insanely easy), the southeast ones in Pennsylvania, all in Delaware (again, insanely easy).

[RI]

I can name all of the counties in Washington pretty easily. I can do all of a couple of other states too (eg California, Arizona, small New England states, etc).

[jimrtex]

I fall down with the Sierra foothill and NE corner counties, so maybe around 45 of the 58 CA counties perhaps.  I can name all the SoCal counties though. 

I wonder if Sam Spade can identify all 254 Texas counties.  He claims he knows the state like the back of his hand.

I did 198, with 7 misses, and 49 skips.  I think with a list, I could probably do about 230-240.

Other than getting Franklin and Morris reversed, the south-easternmost county missed was Hamilton

[Miles]

I find the best way to do this is to get a blank county map, copy it to Paint and fill them in as you go along.

[bgwah]

39/39 for WA is easy for me.

[memphis]

Probably about half. I do much better in my part of the state.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I got 80/87.

[Hatman 🍁]

Easily, all of them... probably. Definitely with a blank map.

[Nichlemn]

0.

[MaxQue]

Around 10 on 80-something.

Quebec has silly counties, whose borders are often changing and often have silly names or long names with hyphen.

[HAnnA MArin County]

Not to sound like Sarah Palin but, "All of 'em." 115/115.

[Hatman 🍁]

Around 10 on 80-something.

Quebec has silly counties, whose borders are often changing and often have silly names or long names with hyphen.

I could probably get more than 10 in Quebec. They're not all silly

[minionofmidas]

All, of course. There are just 26 (not that they're called "counties", of course.)

[Joe Republic]

Both of the ones that matter, and about three or four of the vast, empty ones.

[Јas]

32/32

[jimrtex]

32/32

Aren't there 34?

[phk]

45 or so. I'm not that good north of San Francisco.

I can do So Cal + Central Cal + Bay Area pretty well though.

[Bacon King]

95/159

Most of the one I didn't guess correctly are in the southwest of the state.