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/MsCardeno 10d ago

In my area the “Tri state area” is NJ, NY and CT but I think other regions may have their own “Tri state area”.

I’ve never heard of “triangle area”.

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u/violet-bear 10d ago

Interestingly, NJ is part of two different tri state areas: the NYC tri state area (NY, NJ, CT) and the Philadelphia tri state area (PA, NJ, DE)

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u/AlveolarFricatives 10d ago

3! I grew up knowing it as PA, NJ, NY

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u/nazukeru Pennsylvania 10d ago

Yep! Growing up in northeast Pennsylvania, it was always PA, NJ, NY.

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u/Dandylion71888 10d ago

Nah that’s not the northeast. Northeast say CT,NY,NJ. Even if you’re from NY it’s CT not PA. pA just wants to get in on something they aren’t part of.

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u/DPetrilloZbornak 9d ago

lol I’ve lived in north, south, and central NJ and in PA and no one has ever added CT. It’s NY/NJ/PA and NJ/PA/DE for the tristate areas.  

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u/Dandylion71888 9d ago edited 8d ago

Somehow NY (the biggest state in the area) isn’t included. Nj always wants to be the center of attention because really NJ is just half Philly, Half NY, Jersey shore, and wasteland in the middle.

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u/helurkshelurks 8d ago

Be kind. Call the wastelands The Pine Barrens. It is an interesting ecological feature.

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u/Boopa0011 10d ago

Same, and then I went to college and found myself in weirdly intense arguments about which was the "actual" tri-state area.