which of the continental us states extends farthest north?

Answer 1

Minnesota.

The Northwest Angle, known simply as the Angle by locals, and coterminous with Angle Township, is a small part of northern Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota that is the only part of the United States outside of Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel. That parallel is the northern boundary of the 48 contiguous states extending eastward from the west coast along the northern boundaries of Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and part of Minnesota to the Northwest Angle. Further east, U.S. territory does not extend that far north. Map projections sometimes create an optical illusion that Maine extends farther north than that; that illusion does not occur in maps in which parallels of latitude are straight lines. The Northwest Angle cannot be reached from the rest of the United States without traveling through Canada or crossing water—specifically, the Lake of the Woods.

Answer 2

minnesota Many people have a hard time with this one because most of the US maps we see are projected. Projections are formal ways to view the surface of the earth on a flat sheet of paper, but in order to do this they must distort properties of the surface. Most US maps do not preserve the property that two locations exactly level with one another on the paper should be at the same latitude. Here's an example Albers Equal Area projection US map. Points lying along each curved line of latitude you see on the map are equally far north..

Answer 3

It's Alaska - still on the American continent, even if it is cut off from the rest of continental US by large expanses of Canada.
No offence to the asker, ('cos he said US), but when will people realise that the term America applies to Canada, the USA, central America and South America?

Answer 4

Washington

Answer 5

it is minnesota... it has a very small panhandle that extends into canada and is further north than maine or washington

Answer 6

alaska

Answer 7

It's MAINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look at a MAP

Though alaska is still on the contenent.... but is separated by Canada