Lunchtime Trivia Thursday, January 25

Q:  More than 40,000,000 Americans live North of this.  What is it?

A: Half of Canada’s population!

…50% of Canadians live below the 49th parallel ( our border)

It’s quite a bit easier to calculate the US population north of Canada’s southernmost point (Middle Island, just south of Pelee Island in Lake Erie). Turns out that over half – 27 – of the US states are wholly or partially north of 41.68 degrees latitude, and 13 are entirely north of that point.

Those 13 states (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) have a combined 2014 population of 40,427,279, which is greater than Canada’s entire population of 35.2 million. And that’s not even counting the population in the parts of the other 14 states that are north of Middle Island.

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