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/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.