goraiders Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I've always wondered how much US geography foreigners know. Like would you know that l.a. and SF are 400 miles apart or do some people think theyre close because theyre both in california (or not even know theyre in california). also generally where in the country most states are? I know next to nothing about where anything in any other country is with the slight exception of Canada, but I don't know if people know more about the United states. tell me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'm sweet at geography. I learned really young that no one in America knows American geography either. I was in Detroit for a hockey tournament wearing my Tonawanda Lightning stuff. Fair enough, people were like "oh, where's that?" "It's a suburb of Buffalo." *blank stare* "..Buffalo, NY..." "Oh! How often do you get to the city?" "Um.. I mean, it's 10 seconds away...." "I love Central Park, do you go there much?" "Uh... Buffalo is the next biggest city in the state, and it's actually 7 hours away from NYC... have you seen a map before?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borosel Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 i don't know where buffalo is in ny, i don't think it's that weird. or is it? i live in ca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goraiders Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 haha, i actually knew that although probably from sports teams. My friend went horseback riding with his grandpa in middle of nowhere texas and people kept asking him if he knew any movie stars because he was san francisco, because its right next to l.a. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 i don't know where buffalo is in ny, i don't think it's that weird. or is it? i live in ca.I don't know, I can roughly place the big cities of California. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borosel Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 i guess i just really don't care. it hasn't affected me any in my life not knowing where cities are that don't concern me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steventangent Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 People love to poke fun at Americans for not knowing the geographical locations of other countries that well. You'll have people placing Egypt in Asia and India in the middle east and Portugal down South America way and shit like that. But I wonder how well people know geography in other countries? Part of it owes to America being somewhat isolated. But I'm not sure how well people in Europe know South America, or so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoine Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I Know California is pretty big and I know the big cities (LA - San Diego - San Franscisco - Long Beach - Riverside, San Jose, Fresno.. etc....), but I don't know if I could point WHERE the different cities are in California. When I was younger, I could name all the states and their capitals. I don't think I remember them all right now. But I'm sure I could point where every state is (approx.). I probably could point where every country (most) in the world is on a map. I' canadian by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soysquad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I know states, and most of the countries of the world pretty well, but I could probably only name about half of the capitals of the US, and probably not a 1/4 of the worlds capitals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patron Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf I got 28/48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soysquad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swfI got 28/48 I got it all, but that thing sure is touchy about placement, especially the east coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 when i say i'm from harrisburg most people have no idea where that is. i realize it's not a huge city compared to other major cities, but ITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE. also, when my best friend (who is getting his phD from harvard, to put things in perspective) was purchasing plane tickets to visit our friends in berkeley, he almost bought tickets to LAX because he thought that was close to san francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I won the Geography Bee in 5th and 6th grade. Being a sports fan really helps you learn the states at a very young age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fueledbymike Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 try this http://www.addictinggames.com/50states.html you have to drag them to the correct place way harder than you would think post your scores score 92 - avg error 6miles - time 282 sec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smailtronic Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Being a sports fan really helps you learn the states at a very young age. Seconded. And seconding the notion that most US citizens aren't that great at our own geography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Here's the middle east / northern Africa if you think you're a hotshot. It's humbling sometimes. http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I got 42 of 48 on the timed state one. It wouldn't let me pinpoint Maine and I was going to punch the game in the face, and then I just wasn't quick enough. I got 92%, 17 miles off for my average error, and 560 seconds to build the map. 46 of 50 were perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soysquad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Here's the middle east / northern Africa if you think you're a hotshot. It's humbling sometimes.http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html damn, Middle east I pretty much nailed, but the noncoastal african countries I bombed. Chalk it up to studying WWII history and terrorism now for knowing what I did know. That one was brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soysquad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 try thishttp://www.addictinggames.com/50states.html you have to drag them to the correct place way harder than you would think post your scores score 92 - avg error 6miles - time 282 sec score- 90.19. I wasn't paying attention, and put wyoming as CO. whoops. avg error -14 miles time - 262 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soysquad Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 also, it's probably not that cool that I really like these games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtmanner Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'm doing terribly on the Northern Africc/Middle East map. I either know right where a country is, or have no clue haha. I got 47/48 on the sates map because my computer was choppy. As for the placement map (doing the first US map obviously helped a bit): 94.11% - 9 miles avg error - 385 secs - 48/51 perfect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4ever Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'm pretty solid with my geographical skills, but I'm gonna try these tests and post the results. EDIT: Got two wrong on the Middle East/Africa one (I accidentally dropped Chad where Niger was, and I put Uzbekistan where Turkmenistan was). Not bad though. I got all 48, but I messed up a few because the cursor on the American states one isn't the easiest to use. The other game I got a score of 96.07, average error of 2 miles, in 206 seconds. I misplaced DC since it was my first piece of the puzzle, and I knew where it approximately was, but I was off by enough it gave me a wrong answer. The other one was Nebraska, and it was my first mid-western state, so there were no other ones to build off. Pretty respectable if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Here's the middle east / northern Africa if you think you're a hotshot. It's humbling sometimes.http://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html I got 10 countries in the middle east. I don't think that's too bad. It's pretty much all the countries that the US has conflict or relations with though. Egypt is the only country I can place in northern Africa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fueledbymike Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 i knew like 2 on the middle east one DAMN im terrible, i didnt even know half those countries but i am also NOT a history/geography person im TERRIBLE at memorization Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar71888 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 when i took geography, half of our final exam was to write in the name of every country in the world on blank maps. i got a 98% on that part, but i probably couldn't even touch that nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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