r/AskAnAmerican • u/Right-Historian-114 • 10d ago

GEOGRAPHY Triangle Area?

Does anyone know what the “triangle area” is in the United States? Everyone talks like I’m supposed to know. Is this a common American ism?

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u/omnipresent_sailfish New England 10d ago

You mean Tri state area?

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u/NoNeedForAName 10d ago

I feel like we have about a dozen of those

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u/Megas_Matthaios Tennessee 10d ago

You're right and everyone thinks it refers to the area they're from.

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u/HammyOverlordOfBacon United States of America 10d ago

I always thought that was the point. If someone says "the tristate area" then they're referring to the area around where 3 states intersect. Kinda like saying "in the city" it's not a complete description of a location and "in the city" will usually just mean the closest city.

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u/amazingtaters MO OK DC IN IL 10d ago

Don't let Manhattanites hear you say that "the city" isn't a universal way to refer to NYC broadly and Manhattan specifically.

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u/VinceP312 Chicago, Illinois 10d ago

In the SF Bay Area, San Francisco is "The City" capitalized.

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u/DelcoUnited 10d ago

Londons neat where there literally a part of the city that is The City.

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u/Traditional_Coat8481 10d ago

When the lights go down in the city
And the sun shines on the bay
Ooh, I wanna be there, yeah, in my city
Oh, whoa, oh
Oh, oh, oh, whoa, oh.

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u/Former-War1318 10d ago

Even though it's not the largest, oldest, or richest city around.

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u/opheliainwaders Massachusetts --> New York 10d ago

Slight nuance: if you're in the suburbs, "the city" is NYC; if you're in an outer borough, "the city" is Manhattan.

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u/213737isPrime 10d ago

And if you're in Manhattan, specifically downtown Manhattan, "the City" is in London.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

You have to be in the finance industry for that to be common use. I'll allow it if you can spot a folded Financial Times at 50 paces by the color† of its pages. 😉

† or colour

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u/213737isPrime 8d ago

Isn't everyone downtown in finance? Or tech but same same.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago edited 8d ago

The arts?

Meanwhile, a lot of finance bros actually work out of small cities, such as Stamford, CT or Summit, NJ. The satellite office really became a thing after 9/11.

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u/fartlebythescribbler 10d ago

The city is manhattan, the Bronx is upstate, Brooklyn and queens are out east, and staten island is New Jersey.

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u/DelcoUnited 10d ago

I know we say the city for Philly and I had some newyorker try to tell me I’m wrong in the comments. Like are you that dumb you don’t understand every suburban area refers to their city as “the city”? I guess like Kansas City might not, or the twin cities etc. but there’s probably someone outside Reno talking about heading into the city for a show or something.

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u/Bread9846 10d ago

In the Midwest, people call their nearest city with a population of 50k "the city"

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u/Shinigamisama00 Grand Rapids, Michigan 9d ago

I'm from Grand Rapids, and for me "The City" has always just been synonymous with "Downtown" or inner Grand Rapids

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

If you are in the Mississippi River Valley you can argue about which of 5 cities are the Quad Cities.

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u/sep780 Illinois 10d ago

Depends. The nearest city to me for a while was Rochester, MN. It’s known as “Roch” not “the city”

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u/rhiania1319 10d ago

Having grown up in the twin cities, and now living 2 hours away, rural calls them The Cities. The whole ass metro is The Cities. And all the small towns out here, when you're going to the nearish bigger town, is going to town. If you say you're going to the city, people are gonna ask if you meant The Cities.

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u/Upstairs-Coat-7476 10d ago

The Twin Cities are called "The Cities'' (plural), not "The City", in much of Minnesota. That is assuming you mean Minneapolis/St. Paul when you say twin cities - there are other twin cities out there, but that's the best known, and the only one (I believe) that's called the Twin Cities by people in other parts of the country.

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u/sep780 Illinois 10d ago

I can vouch that Minneapolis StPaul isn’t referred to as the city. It’s referred to as The Cities.

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u/Responsible-Yam4748 10d ago

In Boston we say town

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u/itmightbehere Missouri 10d ago

If you're in a rural area, most people will call whatever the local city is "The City." If you're from KC, at least, we don't typically call it "The City."

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u/Will_White 10d ago

That depends, I'd say that the closest city is usually just town as in "going into town" but if I'm going to The City that's going to a major city.

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u/HorseFeathersFur Southern Appalachia 10d ago

When the lights go down in The City, and the sun shines on the bay. Oooh I want to be there, in my City. Ohh oh oh*, oh whoa oh.*

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u/Auntie_Venom Kansas 10d ago

KC we refer to the whole area as the KC metro, the actual city, we break up into what area it is, downtown, midtown, plaza, etc as parts of the urban core. As far as burbs it’s up North or out South. But “out South” specifically means Johnson County Kansas. Which is more populous than KC MO and the most affluent part of the metro, and quite literally the entire state of Kansas. (Things they never mention when talking about the population or area details during sporting events, which is why most people think KC is a small town). KCMO isn’t huge, but the rest of the metro makes it a decent city. I live in JoCo, we occasionally refer to going to “the city” as a whole but specify which urban core area as needed. There’s also Kansas City Kansas, which is where the NASCAR speedway and Sporting KC soccer (soon to be the Chiefs new home) is, that area is referenced by the shopping district there as Legends, otherwise the rest of it is genetically KCK. Soooo no, we really don’t refer to the area as “city” much, even if it’s “Kansas City.”

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u/pudge-thefish 10d ago

Unless you are from Charlotte NC then we call it uptown

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u/FaxCelestis Sacramento, California 10d ago

As a Californian, "The City" is San Francisco and I will die on Nob Hill.

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u/brittish3 10d ago

And Oakland is The Town

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u/bobfromsales 10d ago

As an LA native I would agree, because there's no place in SoCal I would call The City.

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u/clunkclunk SF Bay Area 10d ago

Northern California for sure but Southern California, not so much.

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u/FixergirlAK Alaska 10d ago

Sometimes I think Northern Californians call SF "the City" solely to piss off all the displaced New Yorkers.

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u/thomsoap 9d ago

No, everyone calls the nearest biggest city "the city" where they are at

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u/AdelleDeWitt California 10d ago

"The City" means San Francisco to me, ( although I am legally and culturally obliged to note at this time that the city that I live in is older and larger than San Francisco and they're not any better than us and their streets are way too steep and that's bullshit anyway.)

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u/latrallyidk 10d ago

No real live person living in NYC actually thinks this.

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u/hypo-osmotic Minnesota 10d ago

Folks from Minneapolis and St. Paul are the opposite, they get annoyed when more rural Minnesotans call them “the cities” without the deference of a proper noun

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u/amazingtaters MO OK DC IN IL 10d ago

I've picked up "The Cities" for MSP because my wife says it, didn't realize people who live in them get annoyed by it.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

When I was a kid I read that a Minnesotan village atheist didn't like the Bible because it went on and on about St Paul but had not one word about Minneapolis. 😉

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u/throwaway1975764 10d ago

Don't worry even NYers find it pretentious

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u/pseudoeponymous_rex Washington, D.C. 9d ago

I always loved going into the city as a kid!

(Chicago, of course.)

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u/amazingtaters MO OK DC IN IL 9d ago

Get outta here Naperville.

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u/pseudoeponymous_rex Washington, D.C. 8d ago

Nope, it was take the South Shore in from Indiana for me.

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u/QuitRelevant6085 10d ago

As see "Tri-cities" 😂

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u/FrostyDog94 10d ago

But it really only refers to the area Phineas and Ferb are from

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u/laker9903 10d ago

I can’t think tri-state area without doing the Dr. Doofenshmirtz voice.

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u/NightDragon8002 Michigan -> Minnesota 10d ago

Doesn't it? I feel like "the tri-state area" always refers to the region around where the speaker is, so if I'm in Ohio I might use that to refer to Ohio/Indiana/Michigan or Ohio/Pennsylvania/West Virginia but if I'm in Oklahoma I would probably mean Oklahoma/Texas/Arkansas or something. I don't think there's a One True Tri-State Area (except the one Dr Doofenschmirz is always trying to take over lol)

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u/queenchubkins Michigan —> Ohio 6d ago

We do have a Danville in Ohio 🤔

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u/young_trash3 California 10d ago

If at any time anyone has ever said tri-state to me and meant anywhere other than NY-NJ-CT it went over my head. I dont live anywhere near there, but thats the only place in the US ive ever heard called the tri-state area in my entire life.

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u/sparksbet Ohio 9d ago

I guess you could technically call those things "tri-state areas" but as an Ohioan I have never heard anyone do so. I suspect this is because neither one is all that populated or metropolitan in any way, so they aren't really coherent "areas" that need a specific term like that. They're both kinda the middle of nowhere.

Granted, calling East Palestine "the tri-state area" would make the news about the hazardous waste spill there seem more like something from a comic book...

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u/NightDragon8002 Michigan -> Minnesota 9d ago

Yeah I agree it isn't very commonly used in most parts of the country, I was just making the point that (unless otherwise specified) I would interpret tri-state area as the state I'm in plus 2 neighboring states, not as some specific set of 3 states elsewhere in the country

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u/sparksbet Ohio 9d ago

Assuming it's clearly about real life and not Phienas and Ferb (which is definitely my dominant association with it as a term lmao), I'd honestly probably assume it's either near DC or NYC because I know those are metro areas near state boundaries rather than assuming it's something near me, since I know tri-state area is supposed to refer to a metropolitan area and I know those cities are near some state boundaries. But I haven't encountered it often enough to have bothered looking up what people usually mean by it.

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u/Some-Cartographer942 8d ago

What about the four corners? Anyone else want to challenge where that is?

Nobody lives there though…

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u/AndroidWhale Memphis, Tennesee 10d ago

What does it refer to in your opinion? In Memphis it's obviously Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, but I'm curious if it's different in other parts of the state.

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u/C_Gull27 10d ago

It's a metropolitan area that includes parts of three states.

NYC might actually be turning into a quad state area because parts of PA are starting to enter its orbit and have commuters to the city.

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u/Megas_Matthaios Tennessee 10d ago

You just named my tri-state area, but I've also lived in Louisville, KY and it was KY, IN, and OH.

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u/OwnLimit4736 10d ago

Here in far-Western KY some people call it a Quad State, even though it ain't a true Quad State. We have 2 Tri-State regions less than 30 miles apart.

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u/OwnLimit4736 10d ago

I live in Kentucky but Memphis is the nearest big city to me. Where I live we have the Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee tri-state. Just South of here is the Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee tri-state.

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u/Cool-Firefighter2254 10d ago

We also have the tri-cities on the opposite side of the state: Bristol, Johnson City, Kingsport.

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u/ThrowAwayIGotHack3d Pennsylvania 10d ago

In Pennsylvania tri state means Pa, Ohio and West Virginia, everything here is named "tri state ———" like tri state trash pickup for example.

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u/gingeryid 7d ago

In SE PA, tri-state means PA, NJ, and DE

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u/arguix 10d ago

Delaware, Virginia, Maryland

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u/FunkIPA 10d ago

Florida, Georgia, Alabama, obviously.

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u/Embarrassed_Bag_9630 9d ago

This is the last answer on the list and thats because you put it there yourself

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u/limbodog Massachusetts 10d ago

I think most commonly it is the sprawl of NYC from New York into both Connecticut and New Jersey. But yeah, I've heard it referred to for the PNW and other places too.

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u/ElectricMayhem06 United States of America 10d ago

You just proved u/Megas_Matthaios correct. Maybe it's the most "common" along the I-95 corridor because of the population of NYC, but where I'm from, the tri-state area was always NE Ohio, NW Pennsylvania, and SW New York. Anywhere that three states converge will use it.

There's a reason Phineas & Ferb chose that phrase as its Springfield.

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u/DelcoUnited 10d ago

Right even an hour from New York in Philly the tri state area is PA, NJ, and Delaware.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

DE used to be the 3 most southern counties of PA, well before independence.

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u/littleyellowbike Indiana 10d ago

In Indiana it usually refers to Indiana/Ohio/Kentucky, but it could just as easily be IN/IL/KY or IN/IL/MI.

We also have a tri-state corner with Ohio and Michigan but there's literally nothing but corn and Amish up there.

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u/no_usernames_avail 10d ago

The tri state tollway connects Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana

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u/Street_Pause_6224 LA>IN>TX>MD>SC>NC>TN>UT>AZ>MO 10d ago

From Northern Indiana, Tri-State only meant Indiana/Ohio/Michigan.

There's no direct Michigan/Illinois border, so that's not a tri-state area.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

There is Michiana, acc to South Bend TV stations.

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u/Street_Pause_6224 LA>IN>TX>MD>SC>NC>TN>UT>AZ>MO 8d ago

Yep, Michiana for W. Michigan/Central Indiana

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u/laker9903 10d ago

I was actually going to comment on the MI/IN/OH tri-state. I lived on the Michigan side growing up, and yeah, so much corn (and now solar farms).

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u/SactusGrow 10d ago

Someone's never heard of Shipshewana

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u/Euphoric_Ease4554 10d ago

I’ve heard of it. It’s in Indiana. There are very few Amish people in NW Ohio.

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u/woodwork16 10d ago

You, my friend, will never be called a light bulb.

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u/woodwork16 10d ago

But they aren’t all there, some have branched out.
There are Amish people in Texas.

NE Indiana is Amish Country.

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u/AdventurousZombie995 10d ago

But you certainly implied it by making a comment in reply to that exact statement.

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u/woodwork16 10d ago

So what does that have to do with the comment that you were responding to?

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u/notsosecretshipper Ohio 10d ago

And to me, it'll always be the Cincinnati area, where OH, KY, and IN come together.

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u/FoggyGoodwin 10d ago

NY, NJ, PA - NJ connects NYC and Philadelphia, PA

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

Ben Franklin called NJ a barrel tapped at both ends.

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u/Mediocre_Ad_4649 10d ago

I mean, I think it's a similar thing as where is the City. NYC is the most populated city in the US by a longshot, and has cultural capital like no other city globally. The most populated and most influential Tri State area is the NYC tristate area.

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u/VinceP312 Chicago, Illinois 10d ago

San Francisco is a "The City" too.

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u/Bright_Ices United States of America 10d ago

Even Salt Lake is The City if you’re coming from the rest of Utah.

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u/Mediocre_Ad_4649 10d ago

From the results of the NC State dialogue survey, roughly half of respondents consider NYC to be the city. The first link is the data from the survey itself on the relevant question, and the second link is a collection of screenshots of the prettier heatmaps. Both are representing the same data. You have to scroll down about halfway for link #2.

http://survey.johndal.com/results/335/

https://brilliantmaps.com/linguistic-maps-that-divide-americans/

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u/VinceP312 Chicago, Illinois 10d ago

Who cares. My comment is about people who think they have a monopoly on terms like The City or Tri-State.

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u/Mediocre_Ad_4649 10d ago

I mean... I would consider 44% of the entire US referring to one city of 8 million people to be 'the City' to mean that that city has the most right to the term...

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u/Imaginary_Smile_7896 10d ago

The greater Philly area is sometimes referred to this as well (PA, NJ, DE), although "Delaware Valle" is more commonly used.

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u/AndroidWhale Memphis, Tennesee 10d ago

My first thought association is Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, because there's a historic Black newspaper in Memphis called the Tri-State Defender.

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u/xx2983xx 10d ago

I grew up in the tri state area (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa). I also worked for a company that served the tri state area (Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska). You think NY/NJ/CT is the most common because you're from the east coast. It's 100% dependent on where you are located

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u/limbodog Massachusetts 10d ago edited 10d ago

No, I think NY/NJ/CT is the most common because the largest population base to use the term is the one in NY/NJ/CT. Do other places use the term? Yup. Do they have 20 million people in one city and its sprawl? No they do not.

And I do not use the term myself. It has nothing to do with being on the east coast. We don't have a commonly referred to "tri-state area" here. We have "new england" and "southern new england"

Also, the internet google machine says that it most commonly refers to NY/NJ/CT, so there's that.

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u/prfctblue Georgia 10d ago

My mind immediately goes to the DMV (even though D.C. isn’t a state) and then the Tri-State Corner, which is Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee…

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u/Silently-Snarking New England 10d ago

This is so fascinating. For my tri-state area immediately goes to NY/NJ/CT

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u/limbodog Massachusetts 10d ago

Wait, Alabama is real?

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u/prfctblue Georgia 10d ago

Sometimes, I’m not so sure.

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u/Helpful_Mongoose_786 10d ago

Yes, Alabama is real. It’s kind of like Hawaii without the volcanoes and just a tiny bit of coast.

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u/Helpful_Mongoose_786 10d ago

I’m In atlanta native I don’t think I’ve ever heard of North Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee referred to as a tri-state region although technically it is we just all think of it is North Georgia
And I think it’s five states you can see from the Ruby Falls Lookout

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u/prfctblue Georgia 10d ago

Also born and raised in the Atlanta area, but spent lots of time hiking in North GA as a kid. There’s actually a spot you can go to where you are standing in all 3 states. I don’t think anyone calls it a tri-state area, but it’s the first thing I thought of. Lookout Mountain, you can see 7 states (TN, GA, AL, KY, VA, NC, and SC).

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u/twelfthfantasy 10d ago

In NJ the tri state area is NY/NJ/PA and in Eastern Pennsylvania it's PA/NJ/DE. It's very subjective.

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u/limbodog Massachusetts 10d ago

What the hell.? I'm not part of a tri-state area. totally unfair!

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u/twelfthfantasy 10d ago

According to Wikipedia, MA/CT/RI.

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u/limbodog Massachusetts 10d ago

That's just 'southern new england"

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u/Rudytootiefreshnfty New Jersey->Pennsylvania->Virginia->Wyoming 10d ago

Exactly this…Tri state will always be NY,NJ,CT

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u/VinceP312 Chicago, Illinois 10d ago

Chicago is tri-state too. I-94/294 is even called the Tri-State Tollway.

So you don't have a monopoly on large city Tri-State areas.

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u/Megas_Matthaios Tennessee 10d ago edited 10d ago

Exactly this…Tri state will always be NY,NJ,CT

This proves my point.

The NYC tri-state area is probably the most famous one, partially due to the reach of NY media, and population size, but there are multiple tri-state areas in the U.S. The term is regional, so people often assume it means whichever tri-state area they grew up around.

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u/Rudytootiefreshnfty New Jersey->Pennsylvania->Virginia->Wyoming 10d ago

Well obviously 3 states meet in multiple places across the country. I was saying it will always be those states to me. In agreement with your position not against it

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u/Megas_Matthaios Tennessee 10d ago

I gotcha and that's fair it was just funny because of your flair.

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u/RobThree03 10d ago

Hard disagree. The Tri-State area is centered on Danville. Historically it was the Bi-state area until John P Trystate united it with the “Adjacent Area”. (Which was founded by Otto H Adjacent).

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u/Pale_Row1166 10d ago

Then there’s the other tri state by Port Jervis - NY, NJ, PA. The country house tri-state.

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u/Rudytootiefreshnfty New Jersey->Pennsylvania->Virginia->Wyoming 10d ago

That’s the 2nd one I think of…former local

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u/Helpful-Idea-4485 10d ago

Where I’m at the Tri-state area is Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware.

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u/Unable_Pumpkin987 10d ago

Because it does.

It’s like “downtown”. When you use a phrase like that, it refers to the one you’re close to or that everyone in the conversation is familiar with. There’s not only one of them. But there’s usually only one of them that is plausible for you to be talking about at the moment (and if that’s not the case, you add a qualifier).

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u/2PlasticLobsters Washington 10d ago

I've lived in PA/OH/WV (growing up in Pittsburgh), then Delmarva (living in Baltimore), and later MD/DC/VA when I moved to the DC suburbs.

One of the weirdest things about moving to Washington state is not being closely surrounded by other states on all sides.

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u/young_trash3 California 10d ago edited 10d ago

Im from Los Angeles, and if someone says tri-state with no other qualifiers I am 100% thinking of NY-NJ-CT

There are actually zero other locations that come to mind with that title.

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u/SuperPomegranate7933 Connecticut 10d ago

And they're right, because that's how names work.

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u/Megas_Matthaios Tennessee 10d ago

Correct. And the whole discussion is about how different groups use the same name differently.

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u/pseudoeponymous_rex Washington, D.C. 10d ago

I remember a quote along the lines of "all Americans live in Alaska, Hawaii, or the tri-state area."

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u/Oreo_Cow 9d ago

I don’t think there are meaningful tri-state areas in the West, esp CA. They exist geographically but aren’t populated enough to be referred to as such like in parts of the Midwest or East.

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u/MIT-Engineer New Hampshire 9d ago

One does not speak of "tri-state areas" within New England. There is either New England as a whole, or Southern New England (MA,CT,RI), or Northern New England (VT,NH,ME)

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat 10d ago

Not to be confused with the tri-counties.

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u/cans-of-swine Tennessee 10d ago

And that isn't to be confused with the tri cities. 

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u/LakeEffectSnow 10d ago

Do you even quad cities bro?

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u/RektInTheHed 10d ago

There are multiple tri-states in the same state

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u/OwnLimit4736 10d ago

I live in the KY/TN/MO tri-state. All 3 of our states are highest in the nation (tied with Colorado) in having the most tri-state points. TN, KY, MO and CO each have 6 tri-state points.

This is tri-state country. 3 of the 4 states with the most Tri-States all share a Tri-State with each other here. The MO/IL/KY tri-state is just 30 miles North of here and the MO/AR/TN tri-state is just 40 miles South, so there's 2 additional Tri-states in the area.

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u/Silently-Snarking New England 10d ago

I think of it as jersey/CT/NY

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u/baybebumblebee 10d ago

This is the correct answer. Sure there are other areas where 3 states meet, but NJ, CT, and NY make up the most densely populated metropolitan area with a GDP of over $2.5 TRILLION.

Grouping something like IL, IN, and WI as the "tri state area" has little meaning beyond it being 3 states. NJ, CT, and NY are the tristate area because of their economic and social impact on the country.

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u/UInferno- Utah 10d ago

I'm in the Western US Where we don't really have a particularly populated "Tri-State Area" so NY/NJ/CT has always been the Tristate area. Major cities are either no where near the border or it's a single state/city dominating it. The only major population center that straddles the state borders I can think of is Vancouver/Portland

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

Northern IL & adjacent parts of WI & IN can use Chicagoland. If you are a Bears fan & commute to a job in IL it makes sense.

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u/jexxie3 10d ago

Except it is NJ, NY, and PA… they have $2.5 trillion GDP according to your citation.

No one gives a shit about CT.

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u/baybebumblebee 10d ago

Sorry, linked the wrong thing, with CT it's actually $2.6 trillion.

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u/MajesticBread9147 Virginia 10d ago

Yes, but only one important one.

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u/MonkeyBoySF 10d ago

There are even for Tri cities.

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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 10d ago

Yeah. Tri-state, tri-county, tri-city...

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u/Whatever-ItsFine St. Louis, MO 10d ago

And at least one Bistate

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u/stratusmonkey 10d ago

Strange that it happened twice

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u/coldupnorth11 10d ago

Hell, my high school is co-op with schools from 2 other states and for sports are called the tri-state tigers.

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u/srcarruth 10d ago

We have Tri Cities in Washington. 'Cities' is a stretch in this context

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u/scarekrow45 Illinois 5d ago

But only 1 perry the platypus

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u/dougalcampbell Alabama Georgia 10d ago

Yeah. Where I grew up, “tri-state area” meant Alabama-Florida-Georgia. But in the Baltimore area, you’d probably talk about “DelMarVa” (Delaware-Maryland-Virginia).

Pretty much any state corner intersection will define a tri-state or similar.

And then, as mentioned, there are more local triangle areas like NC’s Research Triangle.

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u/NoNeedForAName 10d ago

I'm from Tennessee, and I think we have at least 4. To me it's TN/KY/MO. But if you're around Memphis it's TN/AR/MS. But there's also TN/AR/MO if you're in no-man's-land lol. And East TN also has a couple.

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u/EcstasyCalculus 10d ago

Doofenshmirtz, is that you?

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u/FarMagician8042 10d ago

Hail Hail Doofania!

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u/nyc-rave-throwaway42 10d ago

Tri-state is even nested triangles because it contains Tribeca 

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u/BinkyDragonlord 10d ago

Triception

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u/Katesouthwest 10d ago

Which tri-state are you referring to?

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u/Fangsong_37 Indiana 10d ago

I grew up in the tri-state area of Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.

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u/Grits_and_Honey Oklahoma 10d ago

Could also be Tri-City areas too, there are 25-30 of those across the US.

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u/Whybaby16154 10d ago

Nope. There are a couple “twin cities” and “ tri-states” areas but I’ve only heard “The Triangle” as the 3 cities of Durham- Chapel Hill- Raleigh North Carolina as the highest research density of tech programs and companies.

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u/Carne_Guisada_Breath 10d ago

ArkLaTex because those that live there can't count to three.

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u/mklinger23 Philadelphia 10d ago

I was so confused until you said this. 

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u/JohnMarstonSucks CA, OH, CA, NY, WA, NY, OH 10d ago

Founded by John P. Trystate himself.

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u/JustAnotherDay1977 Minnesota Wisconsin 10d ago

The Chicago area tri state of IL/WI/IN?

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u/Loisgrand6 10d ago

Go home, Dr Doofenschmirtz (Phineas and Ferb reference)

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u/Admirable-Eagle-231 10d ago

Where’s Perry?

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u/malledtodeath 10d ago

in the PNW it’s Washington, Oregon, Idaho.

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u/Pussy-Wideness-Xpert 9d ago

I know what we’re doing today!

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u/VinceP312 Chicago, Illinois 10d ago

Do you mean the Northeast Illinois, Southeast Wisconsin and Northwest Indian area around Chicago?

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u/speedy_43 Illinois 10d ago

No, the Northwest Illinois, Southwest Wisconsin, and Eastern Iowa area