Arneb, your second answer is correct. My initial instinct is to always says Maine, but that is is because of the distortions in most flat maps. The line that defines the northern border of the western part of the U.S. is the north of Maine. Minnesota has that strange little notch that is north of that line.

U.K. is my answer to the fourth question. But the islands in question would have been the South Sandwich Islands. The National Geographic map that I have does not give an exclusive claim to the South Orkneys.

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