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* Inverted with Colorado, which is always depicted as mountainous despite half the state being in the high plains.
** Similarly inverted with Montana, which has two-thirds of its land area in the high plains.
* Southern Illinois has the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131126095735/http://www.backpackcamp.com/GardenOfTheGods.html Garden of the Gods] as one of the closest things to a mountain in the state. Mind you, they don't look like most mountains, so it's still a [[Critical Research Failure]].
* One of [[Billy Connolly]]'s stand-up routines in the 1980s was about folk songs that made no sense when analysed or were factually inaccurate, including one called "The Misty Blue Hills of Tiree" - "But if you have ever been in Tiree, it's like a bloody billard table!"
* There are tall mountains depicted in the background of the seal on the state [[w:flag of Nebraska|flag of Nebraska]]. The seal dates from before statehood, when the territory was larger than the state's current borders and did overlap with the Rockies ranges.
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