Is there a better way to choose US state boundaries? Voronoi diagrams can do the job.

Voronoi Diagrams by Jason Davies:

United States of Voronoi: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voro...

World Airports Voronoi: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voro...

Music: "Daily Beetle" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Street maps by OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles courtesy of Andy Allan.

Picture of Don Knuth By Flickr user Jacob Appelbaum, uploaded to en.wikipedia by users BeSherman, Duozmo (Flickr.com (via en.wikipedia)) [CC BYSA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Voronoi diagram By Balu Ertl (Own work) [CC BYSA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Beijing National Aquatics Centre By Morio (Own work) [CC BYSA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of Alibaba headquarters By HASSELL [CC BYSA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Thiessen Polygons By Emilio Gomez Fernandez (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BYSA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Voronoi Fortune Droite Balayage Tangente Cercle By Cdang (Own work) [CC BYSA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)], via Wikimedia Commons

Sound effects obtained from www.zapsplat.com

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