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** [[CanadaEh Northwest Territories]]? (Although most commonly abbreviated "NWT", "NT" in fact is the official two-letter postal abbreviation for the Northwest Territories).

* "West Springfield", a desert area "three times the size of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}"

* The "Five Corners", the only place in the United States where five states share a border, one of them being Springfield's. When police from all five states show up there, they include stock parodies of Texans, Minnesotans, and New Jerseyans. (There is no such place where five states touch in the USA of our universe, the closest is "Four Corners" where UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}, UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}, and UsefulNotes/NewMexico meet.)

Springfield contains constantly-relocating buildings (the parking lot of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant moving next door to the Simpsons' house suddenly, or Marge looking out the kitchen window at apparently the same angle and seeing different buildings ''in the same episode''), but the town also shifts constantly between being landlocked or coastal. In one episode all the townspeople were trapped when the "only bridge out of town" was destroyed (the international airport being across the river). TheMovie provided a convenient forest right outside the Simpsons' house for them to escape into (it appears in some other episodes too).

Despite being described as a tiny "jerkwater burg", Springfield has multiple elementary schools, two multiplex cinemas, several universities, an army base, a naval reserve base, an Air Force base, a television studio, a Spanish-language TV station, its own radio market (its jazz station being the most powerful in the US, boasting a broadcast range of a whopping 23 feet), "Area 51-A", the international airport (receiving direct flights from Bombay at 15-minute intervals, plus [[http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield_International_Airport many other destinations here]]), a transit system including buses, streetcars, elevated tracks, an abandoned monorail, and two subways (one operational, one abandoned), football, baseball, and basketball stadiums (Springfield was awarded an NFL franchise, and the Basketball stadium was quickly turned into a honey bee sanctuary on opening day), a hockey rink, a Popsicle stick skyscraper, at least two mental hospitals, a house of ill repute, several shopping malls, a dozen correctional facilities, a RedLightDistrict that caters to both human men ''and'' dogs, a FriendlyNeighborhoodChinatown, Tibettown, Greektown, Little Italy, a Russian district, a {{Gayborhood}}, and a Jewish neighborhood; more factories, retail outlets, eateries, museums, theme parks and night schools than most states, as well as vast expanses of desert, lakes, large river (with a dam), forests, chasms, swamps, farmland and blasted heath, and three gigantic mountains that turned up one episode but aren't even visible in the skyline at any other time... The town is also proud to be home to a mountain of burning tires that's continuously burned longer than any other tire fire in the world.

Now, back you go to GeographicFlexibility or WhereTheHellIsSpringfield.

* "West Springfield", a desert area "three times the size of Texas"
* The "four states" quote at the top (look at a map); Ohio and Kentucky are the only two named that share a border, and are separated by several thousand miles in opposite directions from Nevada and Maine).
* The "Five Corners", the only place in the United States where five states share a border, one of them being Springfield's. When police from all five states show up there, they include stock parodies of Texans, Minnesotans, and New Jerseyans. (There is no such place where five states touch in the USA of our universe, the closest is "Four Corners" where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.)
* In one episode, a mobster says that they're smuggling sugar "south of the border", to which Homer replies "You mean Tennessee?" (Of course, [[GlobalIgnorance Homer is a moron]], [[UnreliableNarrator so one needn't take ''that'' as a clue.]])
* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply is "If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It gives you some idea of just how important protecting the secret is that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out lie]] to an orphaned kid, especially in an arguably rude way.
* In "Lisa Gets an A" Superintendent Chalmers says that Springfield Elementary was rated the worst school in Missouri, causing Principal Skinner and Lisa to give him a strange look until he explains that was the reason the school was dismantled and moved ''to'' Springfield.

* Not to mention that their state capital is, in fact, "Capital City." (This seemingly proves that they're not in Illinois, since Illinois's state capital is, in fact, "Springfield.") Their state bird is apparently the pot-bellied sparrow.

* At the end of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E19KillTheAlligatorAndRun "Kill the Alligator and Run"]], the Simpsons are [[PersonaNonGrata banned from ever returning to Florida]]. In the final scene of the episode, Marge is standing next to a map of the United States, with 48 of the states crossed off, leaving North Dakota and Arizona as the only states they haven't been banned from. [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Bart gives good reasons why they should never go there in the first place]], and she crosses them off too.

* In the Family Guy crossover, the Griffins reach it fairly quickly from Quahog, Rhode Island. That would seem to suggest Springfield, Massachusetts.

* In "Marge in Chains", a sign states that Springfield is approximately 678 miles from Mexico City, placing it around southern Texas.

* In one episode, a mobster says that they're smuggling sugar "south of the border", to which Homer replies "You mean Tennessee?" (Of course, [[GlobalIgnorance Homer is a moron]], so one needn't take ''that'' as a clue.)

* The "Five Corners", the only place in the United States where five states share a border, one of them being Springfield's. When police from all five states show up there, they include stock parodies of Texans, Minnesotans, and New Jerseyans. (There is a real "Four Corners" where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.)

* In the 11th season episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter "Behind The Laughter"]], the narrator says "the future looks brighter than ever for this Northern Kentucky family." And then to add to the confusion, multiple versions of the line (''"…the small island of Lanai…"'') were recorded for syndication and are available on the 11th season DVD set.

* The "four states" quote at the top (look at a map; Ohio and Kentucky are the only two named that share a border, and are separated by several thousand miles in opposite directions from Nevada and Maine).

* The accents of local Springfieldians are all over the place. Ned Flanders sounds kind of Southern but his wife is more Midwestern. Chief Wiggum sounds like a New Yorker. Moe sounds sort of Brooklynese. Mayor Quimby is stereotypical Boston Brahmin. Sideshow Bob is sort of mid-Atlantic. The Spucklers are very Deep Southern. And at least a few of those characters are descended from families who have been in Springfield for generations.

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply is "If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It gives you some idea of just how important protecting the secret is that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out lie]] to an orphaned kid.

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply: "If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It gives you some idea of just how important protecting the secret is that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out lie]] to a poor innocent kid (and be pretty rude about it, at that).

* The "Five Corners", the only place in the United States where five states share a border, one of them being Springfield's. When police from all five states show up there, they include stock parodies of Minnesotans, New Jerseyans, and ''Hawaiians''. (There is a real "Four Corners" where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.)

** In a DVD commentary (though not in canon), one of the creative team said that Springfield is in the state of "North Tacoma".

* In "Bart on the Road", Bart and friends take a rented car on a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee over spring break. The ride takes a few days, and on the way they pass corn fields (possibly meant to be Kansas?) and Branson, Missouri. So presumably they're to the West of that region (assuming they weren't simply driving in circles).

* In "Bart on the Road", Bart and friends take a rented car on a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee over spring break. The ride takes a few days, and on the way they pass corn fields (possibly meant to be Kansas?) and Branson, Missouri. So presumably they're to the East of that region (assuming they weren't simply driving in circles).

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply: If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It gives you some idea of just how important protecting the secret is that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out lie]] to a poor innocent kid (and be pretty rude about it, at that).

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply: If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It gives you some idea of just how important protecting the secret is that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out ''lie'']] to a poor innocent kid (and be pretty rude about it, at that).

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply: If you follow the clues you can figure it out." It's pretty amazing that protecting the secret is so important that it can make Lisa Simpson [[BlatantLies flat-out ''lie'']] to a poor innocent kid (and pretty rudely, at that).

* When the Simpsons go to Brazil in search of an orphan Lisa was sponsoring in ''Blame It On Lisa'', he explains that he never replied to her letters because she didn't say what state she lived in. Her reply: [[BlatantLies "If you follow the clues you can figure it out."]]

WhereTheHellIsSpringfield + RuleOfFunny + GeographicFlexibility + [[RuleOfThree Rule of Funny]] + NegativeContinuity = Separate Simpsons Geography Thing ([[LongList and]] [[OverlyLongGag did]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment we]] [[RuleOfThree mention]] RuleOfFunny?)

* In the Family Guy crossover, the Griffins reach it fairly quickly from Quahog, Rhode Island. That would seem to suggest Springfield, Mass.

WhereTheHellIsSpringfield + RuleOfFunny + GeographicFlexibility + [[RuleOfThree Rule Of Funny]] + NegativeContinuity = Separate Simpsons Geography Thing ([[LongList and]] [[OverlyLongGag did]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment we]] [[RuleOfThree mention]] RuleOfFunny?)