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Of all the data maps I’ve ever seen, this is the one I don’t believe in the most. US Americans are so embarrassingly shit at geography. There is no way on god’s green earth Americans are familiar with this many countries. I bet most Americans couldn’t name more than like 30 US states. Do you really think 80-90% of Americans have heard of Zambia? Or Papua New Guinea?! No way, I don’t buy this for a second. Gotta be some really low quality underlying data. Americans are liars.

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Yeah, just as many Americans have heard of Brunei as Vietnam?

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How did I miss it? When did we go to war with Brunei? It’s how Americans learn geography.

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Prankster pollster sneaks in some maps for a bonus round.

The pollster shows Yugoslavia and asks “Is this Belgravia?”

American: “Yeah. I think so. Belgravia? Yeah.”

Italy’s boot appears. “Is this Greece?”

American: “Yeah.”

Pollster: "Let’s go to the Middle East. He shows Egypt. “Is this Libya?”

American: “Yeah. I’m better at this than I thought!”

Pollster: “You’re doin’ awesome. Next up is…”

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Yeah there are a lot of countries in Europe around 10M people that I’ve had Americans tell me they’d never heard about.

I think it’s a sampling bias, of people who respond to YouGov polls. Maybe some lying on the responses too.

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1% haven’t heard of U.S :what-the-hell:

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To be fair, I don’t recognize the United States either

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One percent of Americans haven’t heard of 90% of the countries :bern-disgust:

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Burkina Faso >50%

:(

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Disputed Zone? Burkina Faso? Who called all these weird places?

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14 points

Which disputed zone? Western Sahara is ‘no data’.

Or am I missing the joke?

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6% of Americans are 5-years-old or under. :think-about-it:

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23 points

Sweden isn’t a real place.

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True, it’s just Norway with less mountains and even more trees.

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