I posted this question, and I answered the Can you identify all 50 American states on a map? question, to point out that it isn’t just Americans that are geographically challenged: we retain, and can pick out on a map, what is familiar to us, whether we’re Americans or Zaireans.
I did better than I expected, but still not great.
OK, how’d I do?
Missed:
- Guinnea Bissau
- Guinea
- Togo
- Gabon
- Not Zaire: It’ll always be Zaire to me
- Central African Republic
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Djibouti
Misplaced:
- Sierra Leone
- Ghana
- Ivory Coast
- Benin
- Misnamed R Congo as DR Congo
- Zimbabwe
- Botswana