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Ayy! How many countries have you been to?
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Eight.
0, I'm stuck in the same country forever
2, Slovenia and San Marino
I'd like to visit : Japan, Uzbekistan, Singapore, USA, Estonia, Slovenia again, Iceland, Germany, Botswana, Greek Islands, maybe China and Vietnam
9
Sweeden, denmark, germany, poland, france, spain, England, scotland and usa
czechia, slovakia, poland, germany, austria, croatia, italy, greece, egypt - 9
will this year most likely: france and uk (poland and slovakia again)
"Name a country situated in North America"
Average American: "South America"
Well actually most of us are likely to go "New York" North America vs north America.
Comparing europeans not being able to spot every us-state to this isn't really fair. It would be more like name every swiss canton or all 16 german states.
Name all North American countries. There's about 20.
@@michaelchance6125 wow, i just looked them up. 36 (depends), some of them i never heard of. Like Sint Maarten.
@@lionelhutz4186 Sint Marteen is part of the Netherlands technically but yeah! See? Not just Americans are bad on geography of other continents. I'm actually very good at all of them except Africa. Ghana, 2 Guinea's, 2 Congo's it's all so confusing.
@@michaelchance6125 i could actually point every single one out besides those small islands in the South of carribean like Trinidad, Saint lucia and things like that
@@chlepek6944 once you get the big ones done it becomes pretty easy to remember the rest. But yeah island nations are the worst to remember the Pacific nations kill me.
01:53 Hungary finally got a coastline!
Ukraine being "Mongolia" and Kazakhstan being called "Another Mongolia" is just too much. 😂😂😂
As a Mongolian, I have to agree. When did anyone ever thought yes, Mongolia exists in Europe lmao.
@@charmate661Hungary is Mongolia of Europe
Technically is right. Kiev taken by Mongols in 1240.
@@arekzawistowski2609 How can a Polish brother say something like this? 😭
@@Gregoretta because of Arpad, seven tribes, Hungarians being from steppe
As an American, I can confirm we are ashamed. Don’t worry though, our geography education had gotten much better over the years
prove it,name every place
3:19
America has every type of person, and having the third highest population in the world, we have the third highest dumb person population in the world.
Don’t be. These foreigners are clowns. They find the dumbest people to ask.
i can point out most of the top 195 on a map
68 year old American here. I'd be able to name every country except the new countries that were the former Yugoslavia. I'd have to think a minute to remember Czechslavia is no more, but I would remember once I thought about it. Before the Ukraine war, I may not have recognized Belarus and Moldova. I might have labeled Moldova Bessarbia.
Countries I've been to: Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland. Living in Scotland for 15 years, having relations in Denmark, and a commie Poland refugee girlfriend helps.
Now do a map of Asia with Estonians answering.
serbia croatia montenegro slovenia bosnia north macedonia
Video: Americans know the location of Spain.
Reality: Average American asking in which part of Mexico is Spain (actual experience).
In fact, Americans say they have the best education...
This is true, In America you are taught world history until Christopher Columbus, then its all about the united states. Also Americans don't travel internationally that much. However the education system globally sucks.
we have good education the problem is nobody pays attention
Idk what you’re talking about. American education sucks.
We have the best universities but a pretty horrible public education system and literally EVERYONE acknowledges that here. Everyone’s heard of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc, but the public school system is absolutely screwed for a few reasons. Firstly, in the early 2000’s there was a push for school reform and the result was the No Child Left Behind Act which established standardize testing for public schools. The issue with this act is that it did the opposite of what it should’ve done by giving more funding to schools that performed well on the tests while giving less money to schools that performed poorly. If this seems counter intuitive because your only helping the people that succeed, it is, because the act was lobbied for by private schools that wanted to essentially cut out the competition and fill the spots with their own schools to make a profit. This was supposed to be avoided with “school choice” that would allow parents to choose schools outside of their district (schools are mostly funded by property taxes that make up districts) but most poorer people couldn’t afford transportation or the long distances to go to good schools. Therefore when private schools roll in their forced to sign up if they want their kids to have an education.
As a result of this the remaining public schools opted to use a system called “teaching to the test” and it’s largely the reason for Americas learning decline over the past two decades. Kids are taught a subject in a manner directly tied to test taking so there’s almost no interaction with the subject beyond listening to a teacher describe the subject and writing it down while then filling in bubbles on a paper. Its no surprise then that most kids are bored out of their mind because there’s practically no time to actually be active in the day and there’s rarely an opportunity to get interested in a subject beyond the bare bones of what your taught in class. Most kids don’t pay attention because of that and American schools perform horribly as a result. It doesn’t help that public school teachers are grossly underpaid and overworked thanks to all of the documents they have to grade under the testing policy, so often times they can interact with or teach individual students for extended periods of time. The resulting clusterfuck is the American education system that benefits around 5-10% of the student population that’s good at taking tests and listening to orders for hours but not much else. I’m still in the public school system (last year before university) and I went to a top university for a legal camp last year. Most of the kids there from America lacked the creativity and ingenuity to look at cases and find what was wrong, design a strategy around it, or really do much beyond basic class work. It’s sort of a microcosm for the whole education system at this point because the American education kills creativity and only really benefits people that can afford top of the line private schools or won the genetic lottery to be able to sit in a chair and do nothing but pay attention for hours as a child. It’s not really surprising when you consider that private schools and education corporations specifically lobbied for this system to make a greater profit and politicians, mostly conservatives, continue to endorse it under the guise of school choice. I’m just glad to go to university so I can finally get out of this dump because it took me forever along with a change to online school yo finally start paying attention in class, something most kids never do.
As an American, absolutely nobody says that
As an American, I’m probably the only person in all my classes who actually has good geographical knowledges.
You're the only exclusive one.
Have you learnt geography through school or through RUclips like I did ?
@@KevinCasasola2006 I didn’t learn that much from school (I really only learned geography in 7th Grade even tho I already knew quite a bit of countries by then). I mostly used RUclips to learn geography.
Why is geography optional in America?
good geographical knowlegde doesnt mean knowing most countries and some capitals, and ofc laughing at h**ler memes
6:59 I can’t get over how well this Estonian guy can pronounce Spanish :D
Ikr
Viva españa carajo is not really an spanish expretion,we usually say,viva españa coño,carajo is not really a word in spain its more of a mexican thing
@@Wepaaaaaa lo que tú quieras hombre, yo vivo en valencia y he escuchado carajo mil veces. que me digas que coño se dice mas a menudo no lo voy a discutir pero carajo sí se escucha con frecuencia. y despues de todo lo ha pronunciado bien, hay que admirar los esfuerzos del estonio
aqui en canarias no se escucha mucho carajo,bueno pero para ser justos si pronuncio bien
@@Wepaaaaaa carajo sí que se dice en España.
6:32 that short segment of soviet Moomins made me jam out 😆 Greetings from Finland!
not knowing european countries isn't remotely the same as not knowing US states lol
florida texas alaska hawaii california new york washincton virginia new mwxico portland los angeles saint luis nebraska
@@unknown12367 ?
@@3_14pie carolina wyoming ohio michigan puerto rico guam new jersey nevada
California,Nevada,Oregon,Washington,idaho,montana,north dakota ,south dakota,wyoming,utah,new mexico,colorado,oklahoma,texas,lousiana,arkansas,misouri,kansas,iowa,minesota,wisconsin,michigan,illinois,indiana,ohio,kentaky,tenesse,alabama,missisippi,georgia,florida,north carolina,south carolina,virginia,west virginia,pensylvaniamaryland,delaware,new jersey,new york,new hapsaremassachusets,conecticut,rhode island,maine,hawaai,alaska and i think im missing one
-with love from europe
your turn name alll the states of spain
00:45 An average person couldn't, but I can! Not that it should compare, it's just the provinces of a country. Not a sovereign nation. I wouldn't ask for all the names of the Dutch Provinces, even though there are only 12 and used to be even more different from each other then the US states ever were.
Two words for you: public schools.
Okay but there is surely more Europeans who can name every state out of USA (including myself) than Americans who can name every European country
As someone who studies geopolitics on the side, this *pains* me
I'm an American and even I find these laughable...
Agreed.
I would have also labelled all the rivers
I love how the Caucasus was included and nobody even tried to bother naming it (except for that one who mistook Georgia for Azerbaijan)
Do Europeans try to name African countries. I'm American and I'm 100% sure without learning about geography in school I'd be better than 99% of them
Do one where Europeans try to guess all 50 states of the USA.
I’m still learning them apart from the subdivisions of Germany and Italy, but I’m ngl, it’s not that hard when you know all countries and capitals of the world
I know something more fun, Let's take 10 from US and 10 from Europe and then ask them about Africa's or Asia's geography.
How about a video where Americans try to name all 50 states? They'd be just as bad with that map!!!
i am trying to guess some usa states
all the U.S. territories too
The summary is: Americans either need geography lessons or significantly improved geography lessons.
But when I saw the USSR in place of Russia, they're wrong, but I approve.
Im from europe, some states i know:washington, oregon, california, idaho, nevada, montana, colorado, wyoming, arizona, new mexico, north dakota, south dakota, texas, ohio, new york, deleware, rhode island, michigan, louisiana, wisconsin, kentuky, virginia, west verginia, tenesse, indiana, florida, maryland and mississippi. I'm under 10 years old and sorry if i spelt some wrong.
Edit: I have forgotten some that I may remember later.
No Google used
American geography summed up in a video.
3:55 At least he got the balkans right?
Italy was the only country guess correctly except once
poland=poland
slovakia=second poland
hungary=france 2 7:43
The Queen lives in Pembrokeshire
The Queen doesn't ''live'' anymore
@@zaksamson2033 the queen lives in our hearts -some Brit somewhere
@@loafoffloof3420 the queen lives in our hearts. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥🤫🧏♂♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Incredible how most of them get Portugal right.
I'm surprised.
wheres montnegro and -kosovo- in these maps
As an American who knows 93% pf the countries, i got triggered like 100 times
As an American, I know all of my countries.
2:14 it seems that they managed to sink Hungary
- and I'm not all that certain, wether it was purely a mishap...
Why is Montenegro still part of Serbia, how old is this map
The newest it could be is June 2006
Also the country shapes are weird.
that base map is weird, so deformed, like everything just a bit off
also montenegro missing (and ig kosovo depending on your ideology)
can you do a "americans were asked to name footballers" or something like that?
europeans were asked to name european countries:
Ukraine being called other names (especially turkey) was so funny
Also, i love maps!
It's all Poland jaja
Abrazo desde Argentina!
Is Montenegro's existence a political statement? 😭
Same with Kosovo and Syria
@@JRyder_1 same with africa
R.I.P. Montenegro
and kosovo
I hate being American…how do you confuse Mongolia and Ukraine?
maybe invite Europeans to label the states of the USA on the map
at least half of these maps look like a 'european's' interpretation of how an american would label a map. Cheers
As an American, I'm proud to say I know every European countries location and flags. Same with Asia and Aouth America. But North America and Africa are a pain. ( North America cause of the Caribbean)
No one knows Slovenia. I am American and I loved that place and enjoyed Lake Bled. Also rode a train from Poland through Austria to get there and once lived in Iceland when I was young. Obviously some don't know anything, but others do.
LOL, that laughing dog again.
My favorites are second Poland and France 2
Why do americans think that eastern Europe is cold? In Hungary there was no snow in the past 10 years.
I mean, as bad as this is, being a European myself I have to admit that I cannot pinpoint a single American State on a blank map.
As an American, I am indeed VERY embarrassed of my country.
It seems it is mostly the older people who don’t know Europe. The younger people actually can guess multiple countries in Europe right.
Americans labelled Europe
So as an European I'll label the USA with the first thing that comes to my mind while thinking of the States in America
⚠️ Warning, some might be memes, or me not knowing much about the state (in that case, idk is written), or it might be inaccurate ⚠️
Alabama : Sweet Home Alabama
Alaska : Cold
Arizona : Hot
Arkansas : Poor
California : Apple iPhone
Colorado : Square
Connecticut : Italians
Delaware : First State
Florida : Miami
Georgia : Atlanta
Hawaii : Travelling
Idaho : Potatoes
Illinois : idk
Indiana : Indianapolis
Iowa : Des Moines
Kansas : Wichita
Kentucky : KFC
Louisiana : One of the worst states
Maine : Northernmost State
Maryland : idk
Massachusetts : Boston
Michigan : Detroit
Minnesota : Biden (because of him screaming Minnesota in a popular clip)
Mississippi : lowest HDI
Missouri : poor
Montana : Empty
Nebraska : Omaha
Nevada : Desert and Las Vegas
New Hampshire : Best State(?)
New Jersey : Italians
New Mexico : Breaking Bad
New York : Times Square
North Carolina : idk
North Dakota : Same as SD without Mt. Rushmore
Ohio : Cincinnati
Oklahoma : Conservative
Oregon : Portland
Pennsylvania : Harrisburg
Rhode Island : idk
South Carolina : idk
South Dakota : mount Rushmore
Tennessee : Jack Daniels
Texas : Guns
Utah : Mormons
Vermont : idk
Virginia : idk
Washington : Seattle
West Virginia : poor
Wisconsin : Cheese
Wyoming : doesn't exist
Hawaii: Illegal occupation of the Natives
(Just kidding)
@@Max_Svensson I didn't know that, but I guess that also applies to majority of the USA in the 18th and 19th century
@@KevinCasasola2006 Yep, It does. I knew that one, but I didn't comment on it because that would be pretty extreme.
As a Louisianan, the worst state is Mississippi.
im american i know the countries in europe
As an american, i can label most countries on a WORLD map
As an American History Nerd, This Hurts
To be fair, the map used in the video is inaccurate, for example it shows Montenegro as part of Serbia, and it looks like the Ottoman Empire returned to the Middle East. Along with this, the borders are strange, especially in eastern Europe and Hungary specifically. This also means that at 1:00 he is not wrong by stating "THESE ARE ALL FAKE".
I didn't know much about European geography until the Russian war 2 years ago & started studying a map. We don't live there so whats the expectation of knowing it?
Just to be fair. If an American would ask me - an European - to name all states of the USA on a map, I would fail just as badly.
Maybe I would be able to spot Texas, California, Florida, Alaska and Hawaii. But that's it. Damn, I'm not even sure how many states there are. Maybe 50?
I bet Americans would have no problem to name them all. Am I right? ..... Am ... I right? .....
To be fair, if an American ask you to name all their states, ask him to name all regions of your country 'caus it's the same :)
@@pouf6463 But the states of the USA are often as large, or even larger, than European countries.
It's quite easy though, there are the New England states to the northeast: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhodes Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey (+ Washington DC). These are generally progressive.
The 4 others which constituted with those before the first 13 colonies which founded the USA: Virginia (divided with West Virginia, the country of the inbred hillbillies) the 2 Carolinas, of the north and the south, and Georgia, on the Atlantic coast. These seceded because they wanted to keep slavery with the other southern states: Florida (the paradise of retirees and Cuban bandits), the racist Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, the redneck states; Tennessee and Kentucky, and Texas, the state of the death penalty and school shootings. These states are obviously retrograde.
There are states that are useless, in the north-central: Ohio, Indiana and Illinois (except for Chicago in the latter). In the middle of the Lakes: Michigan and its declining automobile industries.
Then there are the states of the middle plains where nothing ever happens except sordid murders or alien invasions: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and the north one.
Then, to the West, the mountain states with beautiful national parks, bears and some rangers: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Utah (the east, because the west is a desert populated by Mormons).
There are the desert countries of the southwest (those that I personally prefer in terms of climate and landscapes): New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
Finally the countries on the west coast (Pacific): California, Oregon and the state of Washington (the largest city of which is Seattle and not the city of Washington which is on the other side of the country). These are also rather progressive.
And of course, Alaska and Hawaii overseas...
And I'm French and have only been to the USA once.
What about Oregon? The state where Gravity Falls are situated!
@@ЮраН-ь2кshape is too square'ish.
as a french person, i see this as an absolute win!
As an American who can name most European countries but not all the states I feel conflicted
To be fair should show Europeans labeling the US states.
Europe is an entire continent, us is a single country, there is no need for anybody outside of US to really know all the specific states.
@@TJ-hg6op i think it's kinda fair. imagine asking americans to label subdivisions of any european country
@@TheRifild To be honest with the size of each state, each are practically the size of one country found in other parts of the world, though since it is still all united (for now), theres no reason for everybody to know em.
Weird map of Europe, Nordic countries are cut out almost completely, no Iceland.
France, Spain and Italy were the only one always rightly labeled
6:10 Le France? Bavaria as East Germany? As a German who can speak French this does really hurt!
Et la Belgique transformée en EuroDisney !!
As a citizen from the country of "?"
I see this as an absolute win
Is it just me or on all those maps? The border between ukraine, poland and slovakia looks a bit weird like the west of ukraine looks a bit flat, but maybe it's just me...
Could you imagine if you asked them to name Asian countries?
Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Cyprus (?), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand ,Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, The Philippines, East Timor, Mongolia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, The Maldives.
I think I listed all of the Asian countries ? Lemme know if I forgot something
@@KevinCasasola2006 Taiwan's a country, its people have been separate from the mainland for almost ~70 years and has its own national identity, history, military, industries, foreign relations, etc etc...
Russia's Siberia is an Asian country, or atleast a european country that so happens to have residences and a major city in Northeast Asia known as Vladivostok.
Other than that I think that is all of the Asian countries
@loafoffloof3420 I think you meant the very south east... near Japan.
If its all Poland there cant be a Russia hahah
Europe? Easy.
North America and South America? Easy.
Asia? Medium.
Africa? Hard.
(In my experience)
Now do the opposite Europeans label a Map of America.
In the thumbnail, none of the polands were poland lmao
Is it true or is it an urban legend, when they say that Americans go to Austria and ask where they can see kangaroos?
I admit I do mix up some of the smaller countries, and the Balkans, but it's also surprising how many Americans can't even find all the US states on the map. Geography hasn't been taught in schools for a very long time. I started school in the mid 70s and it was never a subject that I took, it was kind of lumped in with social studies, which itself had replaced history by then, another sad reality of the US educational system.
Just couldn't tolerate seeing no Montenegro in the map. Seems to be located in Serbia now.
To make this map much easier write the title 1940 Europe and then fill it out
montenegro and kosovo literally disappeared? Honestly I don't think it could have changed if they were there
Now ask a european to label the countries they colonized.
I promise we aren't all like this...
Americans lost interest in geography when series like friends and big bang theory roasted Geologists 😂😂
As a Spaniard living in USA I confirm this IS true
2:12 so are we not gonna talk about how he thought the black sea was hungary?
Russia ok, but based on videos I've seen, even for the worse Americans, the easiest are UK (sure, if they had to write England, Wales and Scotland maybe would have more problems) and Italy (miss that peninsula is impossible); Portugal, Spain and France are always right also and Greece too is (almost) always correct. 🍺
I know all countries in Europe
UK
Ireland
Denmark
Norway
Iceland
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lituhania
Belarus
The Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Poland
Germany
Ukraine
Moldova
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Hungary
Austria
France
Switzerland
Monaco
Andorra
Italy
Romania
Slovenia
Croatia
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Serbia
(Kosovo)
Montenegro
Vatican
San Marino
N.Macedonia
Spain
Portugal
Greece
-Turkey-
Bulgaria
-Cyprus-
Malta
-(Northern Cyprus)-
-Georgia-
-Armenia-
-Azerbaijan-
- - -kinda in Europe
( )-not fully recognized
Wait! You forgot to line Russia!
@@VeeVersion1DWWell most of the population lives in Europe,and the culture is really European.
Russia originated in Europe, and they are Europeans. (mostly
@@Mechmechgames001 But that doesn't mean, it's european!
Mostly european
@@VeeVersion1DW The other countries are less european
0:44 I don't think the average American can even name half the states....
Is no one gonna talk about the fact that Serbia annexed Montrego and kosovo
I just became Indian and then went to war with Russia. Then they ate me for thanksgiving
I remember I saw a video of an American mix up Russia and Ukraine xD
not sure if it was staged or not, but it's not sound so unreal
at least no one called Ukraine Russia
As an American, I'm truly embarrassed by these answers, though not surprised. I'm like you, a lover of maps and could write the name of almost every counrty in the world correctly. I'm still a little sketchy on some of the smaller Caribbean and Pacific Island nations. C'mon Americans, look at some maps!
As a Swede, I think my weakness is the same. I don't think we learned the Pacific Islands in school.
I'm an American who learned geography via the internet.
I'm so glad people see Kazakhstan for what it really is: Mongolia 2
kazakhstan is turkey 3 (azerbaijan is turkey 2)
@@_kitaes_ nah man Turkiye is Mongolia 6
VIVA ESPAÑA!!!
As an European I can name almost, not all but almost all of US states correctly.
I want to see both Americans and Europeans label a map of Africa…..
As a European I bet you I would get +80% right. I can only name 50 right off the bat. The trick to memorize is learning by watching a map. Then you visualize the map naming the countries.
In fact the U.S citizen usually are a high knows in specific issues acording to what they haved studies and very inept in the rest of issues ; superior to other western countries.
As an American, I apologize because of those people's stupidity
😢😢😢
Map shows more of Africa, Middle East or Central Asia than Finland. I guess the memes of us being Mongolian were bit too true to the map maker.
As an American,this video was so embarrassing
2:36 flexing Estonia huh😂