7mo ago

America by a European

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you could probably apply the Hawaii statement to the entire US

This was a well informed European in reality we only know Texas, California, Alaska and Florida. Some would add Utah because everyone is feared about these guys with a strange bible, called Mongos or something.
- Basically no Europeans would put Austria as a US state. It's fake.
  
  No shit Sherlock!
  
  i just kinda assumed it looks a bit like austria and they’re making a joke
- Mormons?
  
  Nah, they are from game of thrones.

Fuck it. Americans and Europeans should try and place Afrcian countries.
- Europeans invaded all of them. They know. (Source : am French)
  
  I'm Danish and I can't place every single African country. I can recognize many on their flags, but I don't know where all African countries are.
- Hah! Try Americans trying to label Europe. They'll get Britain. Maybe France & Spain; Germany.
  It starts falling apart with Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands - most can probably identify the latter three, but not identify which is which. I'd bet swapping Sweden and Norway would be common.
  Good luck with Luxembourg & Belgium, or any of the rest.
  You're right about Africa, and anywhere in the Baltics. Russia, maybe? But despite pursuing a war for 20 years in the Middle East, I'll bet most (who hadn't served) couldn't place Afghanistan or Iraq.
  I'd give good odds for China and India, but they dominate their regions. Australia and Japan, because they stick out, but labeling and southern Asia countries - Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand - no.
  Shit. Many Americans can't even label all of the States correctly. I admit I'm likely to make mistakes, too; I'd do better with Europe, because of vacations. I'll bet I'd do terribly on a state capital quiz. It doesn't help that most state capitals aren't the biggest, most recognized cities. After High School, we don't have much call to locate most states on the map, outside of swing states, which get a refresher every 4 years.
  
  I have an flag quiz app on my phone that is really good at teaching you to not only know the flags of the world, but also their geography. I recommend having something like that for anyone who wants to improve the basics of their world geography. Honestly, I'd recommend it to everybody because it is a fun way to learn something that may or may not be useful in the future.
  I'm not great at geography myself so it was a way for me to work on a weak spot and having fun doing it. Only thing my flag app doesn't really cover is states in America and Germany etc. so I don't have a lot of practice in those. I can sorta place the states of Germany but the United States is still kinda abstract to me.
- I remember once in school (in central Europe) we got a geography test where we had to label countries on a map.
  To prevent copying from the neighbor, half the class got a map of Asia, the other half of Africa.
  I don't remember the details but certainly remember wondering why anyone would think these are equally difficult. 😐🙄
- Equatorial Guinea is the one on the equator, right?

Could have just scrawled "Dumpster Fire" across the whole thing and been accurate.
- Meth Lab
  
  People usually call it Philly.

Austria 🤣

I love how you can see where OP started out, and where they ended.
This provided a solid three minutes of genuine entertainment. Thank you for sharing

Ok but why do you know where Washington is...?
- It's where the surface-to-air missiles (cough boeing cough) are made
  
  I thought those were air-to-surface missiles?
- Because that's where the White House is! /s
- :)
- as an aussie i’d probably get about the same as this, but i too for some reason am confident in knowing the names of east coast states

Pennsylvania is very angry you called them New Jersey lmfao. I'm glad we got more farm land though. Make the biggest garden state woooooo
- Then the town of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania better change its name.
  
  :O No no. We can make a deal with them. I'm not sure what deal we'll make, but we'll make one with them!
  Maybe we'll bring them some of the actual shore, and in exchange we send them the bad shoobies?

Damn Detroit just went up and conquered Arkansas. That’s what you fancy mother fuckers in Fayetteville get for only putting Walmart in the burbs!

If you read from left to right this map starts off pretty accurate and gets progressively more unhinged

Virginia accepts ongoing custody of New York.

Also "Gulf of Mexico".

as an american, looks about right

The european mind cannot comprehend new england

As a resident of Connecticut I hate this map

West Carolina is spot on.

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It’s like they thought it would be funny to make all the lines straight but couldn’t fully commit to the bit.

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Hah! Wyoming has moved from the middle of the Western states to the Mid-West. I think they get partial credit for that one.

Nope, Austria is definetly very close to me and the USA is far away.

They’re all the same anyway…
- That’s why I always thought they’d have an affinity for all those little states up in the corner that can’t be real. Firstly, Europe has more than its Sahara of tiny countries that can’t be real. Secondly but most importantly, we’re often accused by right wing media as “European”, as if it were a slur. Yes, we have better health care, better quality of life, better education systems, better god damn trains. Yes, we still have many quaint little towns organized around a Common - I don’t know if Europe deserves the credit, but not being car-centric is apparently not American
  
  Can you not be so touchy?
- Most informed euro
  
  We sure this isn't a Russian?
  
  Is there no USAians with a sense of humour?
- The states should all be named after the thing they have the largest in the world of - e.g. ball of yarn, telephone, dinosaur golf, sphere, etc…

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