What are the three flattest states in the US?

By any measure, Florida takes the prize for the flattest state in the nation because the highest point in the state is only 345 feet above sea level. Then Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware follow. Kansas merely ranks seventh in flatness. The largest number of people — 33 percent — erroneously guessed that Kansas is the flattest state.

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Sharon Decelle Bosse

I have driven through Kansas and Nebraska. Highway hypnosis.

DannyBoy

I lived in Florida and know first hand, unless you run over an alligator or an orange, on I-95 there is no elevation change.

Jeremy Hildebrand

Oklahoma has the most diverse terrain of any state. 11 different types of terrain. It's fairly flat in the NW, but the rest of the state is definitely not

William R. Meredith

I don't know. The girls in Maryland are very flat

Gwen Kaminski Lawyer

People don’t understand if you haven’t been to eastern Kansas WE ARE NOT FLAT!

Michael Doherty

Isn’t the earth flat?

Tammy Trapp

Lisa G, I was going to say the same thing.

Sunflower Lover

They won't know for sure until Florida fills up with water as to how flat it is!!!

Lisa G

NE Kansas has rolling hills. It used to be a sea.

Lisa G

Sharon Decelle Bosse, we have beautiful, rolling prairie in NE Kansas. The colors are beautiful in all seasons & the wildlife is abundant. Too bad you have tunnel vision.

Lisa G

I knew Florida was one & living in Kansas I know we're not flat.

theotishaynes

I guessed wrong also. I went with the notion that Kansas and Nebraska are what is called part of the plains states so I assumed they were the flattest. Who would have thought 😗