Nobody knows where anything is...
 

There was another thread where London was positioned in Norfolk by Americans. In the interests of fairness and trans-Atlantic good will...

http://twistedsifter.com/2014/01/ame...europe-and-us/

Six of one and half a dozen of the other I guess :)

I was always pretty good at geography. I think I could place all 50 states and most countries.

But dang if I can find my glasses.:O:

That was kinda funny. :haha:
Not many can keep up with geography considering how fast some countries change hands. The fifty states of America is a different matter. They've been constant for over two-hundred years. Well, at least since the last territory voted for statehood.:)
It should get easier after everything becomes The United States of Earth.:03::arrgh!:

Check your head.:yep:

Come on!...You fools we all know its in Suffolk!!!!

Though in all fairness it's one thing to know about countries an one thing to know about where states in certain countries are, or how many here (Germans excluded) know how many states Germany has and where they are located?:cool:

Alright, what's sauce for the goose, prepare to laugh at my geographical inepititude. Also, Balkans...why you so Balkanised?! and Baltics...why you so...Balticised? :hmmm:

http://i.imgur.com/c991nj4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ir9FlSe.jpg

I just looked at a map...good lord my US state knowledge is rather off. I got some in the roughly right location but just a bit off to one side...and others are, well, completely Dixied up... :haha:

I see ICBMs but no Area 51, this map is not up to date as Area 51 is now recognised that it dose exist.

Area 51 is so 1942, it's Area 52 where it's all at now. :rock:

Lol, # 2 is awesome. :haha:

So, at the next Subsim Convention we will have a geography faceoff contest, between the Americans and the Europeans... we'll settle this for once and all.:cool:

Nahhhh..everyone knows Area 52 is Loch Ness.

Behind the Zeitgeist?
Everybody knows that our super secret facility known as Area 51 has been moved to District nine.

Nothing on my :ping:

Now doing business as a 1970's disco.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is the one without a number and 5 is Montenegro

And what's Latvia here is actually a part of Russia.

It is really surprising how many Americans don't know much about their next door neighbour. I am not talking about Mexico here.

This story is from the end of the 80'ies. Our Swedish king and the Queen was on a official visit to USA. One of the Swedish reporter toke a tour in a little town outside Washington(if I do remember it correctly)

He came to one of these famous road restaurant and there he asked people if they knew something about Sweden. It was this guy who tried to make everyone else quiet 'cause he surely knew a lot of Sweden and where this country could be found on the map.

Sweden was...one of the small island north of Japan, according to this person. I guess many Swedish people got a good laugh when they heard and saw this on the news.

Markus

I checked a map after posting this and noticed the mix-up, but I must admit I was quite surprised and pleased that I got most of the Balkans right, even if the only reason I managed to remember where Slovenia is was because of your comment on my Vicky II AAR the other week... :oops:

In regards to that bit of Russia, that is a very confused piece of geographical border arranging, but I have heard it mentioned before, I just never knew exactly where it was, I thought it was more towards Belarus, I know that some of the 'Make the Bear Angry again' (TM) future history writers like to use that bit as a flashpoint for Russian actions in the Baltics.
At least I put Lithuania in the right place, I would have been rather ashamed if I hadn't...although I nearly put it in Belarus until I remembered the existence of Belarus. :doh:

The map is outdated, Kosovo broke of from Serbia, located somewhere between Serbia and Albania without coastline

And Macedonia.

And Serbia still doesn't recognise Kosovo as 'independent', although my knowledge of the area is waning so things could have changed, and lets face it you're more likely to know than me. (How's that for either racism or stereotyping? Just because you're closer and more Balkanised than I. :D )