This season of How the States Got Their Shapes first aired on 03-05-2011.

We are so familiar with the map of United States, but do we know why our states look the way they do? Every shape on the map tells a great story about our past. Why is California bent? To cling on ...

Colorado has mostly straight borders, which makes it look like a box on maps. These lines follow latitude and longitude, so the shape looks clean and sharp. Maps without much detail make it seem like ...