Map literate, is you?

[IronWing]

This here, test yourself at the bottom.

<= Got them all correct because I am wonderful, god's own creation.

 

[Sea Moose]

I get trolled halfway by a subscribe that covers the webpage

 

[edro]

A few good chuckles!

 

[IronWing]

I get trolled halfway by a subscribe that covers the webpage

Adblock + no script = happy life

 

[lozina]

I can label every single one but I am a geography nut

 

[lxskllr]

Former USSR I have no clue. If you named a country I could point to the general area, but I don't know them at all.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Europe is easy
I would probably get 90% right for the US states.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm pretty good at this.

A few points:

--I like how so many of the Brits are fans of Breaking Bad, and so they know how to find NM. I think we need to produce an equally successful show set in Nebraska. Even I don't have a clue of how to find Nebraska.

--The US quiz takers are far more polite and embarrassed for their ignorance. "I am sorry you are all good people." LMAO!

--I like how some of them can't find Greece or Denmark, but know of a place like Lichtenstein (Even though they are mistaking Luxembourg). wtf....

Latvastonia is my favorite country, btw.

 

[gevorg]

not too bad actually, I expected worse

 

[halik]

haah that was great "I played ages of empires 2" got me LOLing

 

[Markbnj]

I would get a good chunk of them right, but certainly not all.

 

[norseamd]

know pretty much all of them but know geography well so.

 

[brianmanahan]

Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

 

[AViking]

Europeans can't find the Pacific Ocean and Americans think I live in the land of cheese, chocolate, and clocks.

How many of you honestly think there are polar bears where I live? That one never ceases to amaze me.

 

[norseamd]

cheese, chocolate, and clocks.

wisconsin?

How many of you honestly think there are polar bears where I live? That one never ceases to amaze me.

not around where you live but he kola peninsula? white sea?

 

[AViking]

There are none in Sweden. I'd have to go to Norway or Russia. Yet I have met a bunch of people who think we have them in Stockholm.

Quite frankly though I think Europeans sucking at finding the Pacific Ocean is much funnier. I was in Africa and met Europeans who were convinced they were swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

 

[norseamd]

Quite frankly though I think Europeans sucking at finding the Pacific Ocean is much funnier. I was in Africa and met Europeans who were convinced they were swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

true. do polar bears not range far from the coast? i know sweden goes quite a ways north.

counties are probably easier to get than states though. i thought how bad brits did was interesting but then relized i might not get england counties right very much.

 

[AViking]

Sweden goes very far north but Polar Bears are much further. There are none on "mainland" Scandinavia. You have to go to a Norwegian island territory to see them. Svalbard Island is WAY up north.

 

[norseamd]

yes i was going to mention it but then relized it was like 4000 miles away. but if they are in finland they must be in finnmark right?

 

[AViking]

None in Finland. I checked wikipedia and they have a good map showing the distribution. Basically they're WAY up north so Greenland, Svalbard, Canada, Alaska, and Russia.

 

[destrekor]

Europe is easy
I would probably get 90% right for the US states.

I have zero idea which one is Belarus, if I were to be told to point to a map and label it.

I'm so sorry.

Pretty much everything Eastern Europe/former commies/the piece of land has changed hands and names a billion times in the last two centuries... yeah, those places I can't accurately label.

Western Europe is cake, though.

I feel ashamed to admit, but yep, I definitely would not gamble my life on accurately pointing to Belarus, Ukraine, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Czech-Republic, Macedonia, etc etc etc.

I know I didn't name all the EU countries - I didn't want to entirely cheat. I had to quickly look at a map just to remember half the names.

BTW, when did Moldova enter into existence? I swear I don't remember seeing it in European war history at all.
Hmm, wiki tells me it came from the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

 

[AViking]

Eurorail/Interrail for a month. Travel cross country for a month. You'll learn geography real quick.

 

[destrekor]

true. do polar bears not range far from the coast? i know sweden goes quite a ways north.

counties are probably easier to get than states though. i thought how bad brits did was interesting but then relized i might not get england counties right very much.

Well, everything that comes out of most other countries seems to mostly point only at the mother country - regional subdivisions in other countries don't get significant attention outside (at least, I'd agree whatever attention they get is non-existent once it reaches the US.).

Whereas almost everything regarding the U.S., we have a very strong drive to identify with our States - I'd wager that the individual states of the U.S. are more widely known than a fair number of entire countries in the world. I'd definitely argue people know more U.S. States by name, and possibly even location, than any other state/provincial division system in the world.

I think part of that is due to the geographical size. Also, Europe's history is important. They've spilled so much blood over geography and ancestry, that almost all of their "pride" and/or focus is on their homeland countries, and so everything on the international stage focuses on that instead of local regions. I am probably wrong, but it might be likely that it's more about making it easier to manage for both administrative teams and citizens, as opposed to anything unique. I'd be curious to know if there are many differences in the laws and styles of administration in the different territories.
In the U.S., hell, we went to war with each other over that entire concept - we demand locally unique governments, and some of us feel that States have lost too much of their right to govern as they see fit, since so much is constantly added at the Federal level. But that's a different topic.

 

[norseamd]

BTW, when did Moldova enter into existence? I swear I don't remember seeing it in European war history at all.
Hmm, wiki tells me it came from the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

but do you know about transnitsia?

 

[destrekor]

Eurorail/Interrail for a month. Travel cross country for a month. You'll learn geography real quick.

Put me up in lodging, will ya? I'd love to do that. So rich in history.

I'm a quick geography learner, because I love the history of land and sovereignty. Eyes on and/or a reason to study, however, is what helps me learn most.