

Map of the United States, with various tri state areas highlighted An example of this comes from a debate of river-basin water usage between the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. The term also applies in reference to water as well as land.

Maybe some of them even felt a sort of rivalry with the big, bad northeastern tri state trio? People elsewhere in the country freely adopted it for their own tricorner regions. There’s no copyright on the term tri state, though. So we’ve established that New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut may be the most famous of all tri state areas. To an outsider, several cities in New Jersey and Connecticut seem more like neighborhoods of New York City (although the locals of NYC may say that’s pushing it!). A map of the New York City metropolitan area, showing its extent into the tri state area (and, briefly, into Pennsylvania)Ĭlimate and natural features don’t drastically change across state borders in this area either, adding to the sense of geographic cohesiveness even across state lines.
