US State Riddles: 30 Which-State Riddles with Answers

I’m called the Sunshine State. I’m shaped like a long thumb pointing down into the ocean, and alligators live in my swamps. Which state am I?

I’m the biggest state by far, more than twice the size of Texas. I’m home to moose, grizzly bears and the tallest mountain in North America. Which state am I?

I’m the only state made up entirely of islands, out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. People greet visitors here by saying “aloha.” Which state am I?

I’m called the Lone Star State, and I’m the second-biggest state. A famous old mission called the Alamo stands in my city of San Antonio. Which state am I?

More people live in me than in any other state. I have the Golden Gate Bridge, the movie studios of Hollywood and a long Pacific coastline. Which state am I?

I’m called the Empire State. The Statue of Liberty stands in my harbor, and my biggest city is nicknamed the Big Apple. Which state am I?

A giant canyon, carved over millions of years by the Colorado River, is in my nickname. My capital is Phoenix. Which state am I?

My main part is shaped like a mitten. I touch four of the five Great Lakes, more than any other state. Which state am I?

I’m shaped like a boot. The city of New Orleans is famous for its jazz and its Mardi Gras parades, and my capital is Baton Rouge. Which state am I?

I’m the smallest state of all, but my nickname is the Ocean State, and I have hundreds of miles of coastline along bays and beaches. Which state am I?

I’m the only state named after a president. My capital is Olympia, and my biggest city has a tall tower called the Space Needle. Which state am I?

I’m shaped like a rectangle, and the Rocky Mountains run through my middle. My capital is nicknamed the Mile High City because it’s one mile above sea level. Which state am I?

I’m also shaped like a rectangle, but fewer people live in me than in any other state. Most of Yellowstone, the first national park, is inside my borders. Which state am I?

I’m famous for growing potatoes, and my license plates have said “Famous Potatoes” for years. My nickname is the Gem State, and my capital is Boise. Which state am I?

I’m the driest state in the country. My nickname is the Silver State, my capital is Carson City, and the bright lights of Las Vegas are inside my borders. Which state am I?

I’m called the Volunteer State. My capital, Nashville, is nicknamed Music City, and the Great Smoky Mountains are on my eastern edge. Which state am I?

I’m called the Bluegrass State. A famous horse race is run in my city of Louisville on the first Saturday in May, and my capital is Frankfort. Which state am I?

I’m called the Peach State, and my capital is Atlanta. I share my name with a country in Europe and Asia, near the Black Sea. Which state am I?

The Liberty Bell is in my city of Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. My nickname is the Keystone State, and my capital is Harrisburg. Which state am I?

I’m called the Beehive State. The Great Salt Lake, saltier than the ocean, is in my north, and my capital is Salt Lake City. Which state am I?

I’m the only state whose name has just one syllable. I’m also the only state that borders exactly one other state. Which state am I?

My name has 11 letters, but the only vowel in it is “i,” and it appears four times. “S” appears four times too. Which state am I?

I’m called the First State, because I was the first to agree to the US Constitution, on December 7, 1787. Which state am I?

My name has only four letters, and it starts and ends with the same letter. Which state am I?

My license plates say “First in Flight,” because the Wright brothers made their first airplane flight on my sandy coast at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Which state am I?

I’m called the Show-Me State. The tallest arch in the world, the Gateway Arch, stands in my city of St. Louis. Which state am I?

The faces of four presidents are carved into a mountain in my Black Hills. Which state am I?

My license plates call me the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” though I have more than 11,000. The Mississippi River begins as a small stream in one of my northern lakes. Which state am I?

I’m the only state whose name starts with two vowels. I sit between two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, and I grow lots of corn. Which state am I?

I make more maple syrup than any other state, my name comes from French words for “green mountain,” and my capital, Montpelier, has fewer people than any other state capital. Which state am I?