"Who knows stuff like that?" EVERYONE over 11 years old outside of USA

Not knowing where a country is on a world map is one thing. Not being able to name a single country is a whole other thing.

He kid at the end was probably Canadian 😅

I think your average European can more easily find Florida, Texas or California than your average American can point to the UK or France.

When I was contracted to work in the US for six years, my older kids joined US grades 5 and 6 (aged 9 and 10). Their first weekend after joining their new schools (my son in DC, my daughter in N VA), they both said they wanted to drop studying what one school called Geography, and the other called Social Studies. "Why?" I asked, as I knew both enjoyed these subjects back home. "Because everything they're teaching about geography, we each learned in Yr 2," my son replied. 🤦‍♂️

there was a tv show on australian tv years ago and the presenter stopped an american and asked him to name a country beginning U and he answered yugoslavia

One girl says “who knows stuff like that”. Well, the rest of the world, the world outside of the USA, knows stuff like that.

My grandmother, whom I adored, always told me that "knowledge is power", which makes it possible to discuss things and not look like an uneducated person! however, my grandmother, who was very cultured, was a housekeeper in an institution for disabled people (but with a beautiful library in her house). that's the difference!!! from France

As a Brit I am of course better informed: Narnia, Wonderland, Mordor, Mu, Atlantis, Lilliput, Brobingnag, Cornwall, Laputa, Button Moon, Wales, Gallifrey.

I’m employed by a major US airline and based in London, England. It shocked and saddened me that when the airline was supporting the US troops sent to Afghanistan, the airline had to display a map of the world on our intranet, under the heading, Where is Afghanistan? Also, many years ago while I was living and working in the US, a young colleague told me that he loved my accent, asked where I was from then when I told him, asked how long does it take to get there on a Greyhound bus. I did not have the heart to reply so changed the subject.

They didn't "reverse" the map - it's a perfectly valid map, just from the pacific. You'll find maps like that used in Australia, New Zealand, south-east asia etc.

How do you not know where we are located. South Africa. It's literally there in the name...😂

As I keep saying. The problem is not, that people don't know the exact location of Lichtenstein. The problem is that some will confidently point at the ocean when asked to find it on a map.

I believe this 100% I've been to the US 5 times and the standard of basic knowledge is close to zero. They are not interested in the world outside the US, I was in Ohio and met some people in RV campsite. I was talking with them about the world, and they said they had never been outside their County not state county. I asked why not, and they said why we have everything here. They were not sure where England was.

The country of Asia......... WOW. Just the fact they can't point to their own country is disgusting

I saw a video of that Jimmy Kimmel show, and some other commenters said the kid who aced the test was Canadian.

I am 83 years old, my education was completed many decades ago. I did one of those on-line geography "tests" a week or so ago, where they show you the "outlines" of 70 different countries and you have to identify them by name and location. I got 68 out of 70 right, and one of my two "misses" was caused by me clicking too soon. The average American is likely to point to Australia or Patagonia when asked to identify Greenland on a world map! American education, especially at primary and even secondary level, is extremely basic and seems to be mostly concerned with teaching kids American history in minute detail and sing the national anthem or properly fold and kiss flags - if Trumptidumpty's behaviour is anything to go by. It's just ludicrous how completely ignorant so many Americans remain about the rest of the world. Some of that gets corrected at some damn fine (but expensive) universities scattered around the US, but the fact remains that only a small minority of people gets to attend such universities.

Is it only obvious to me.. Right in front with a unique SHAPE. All on its own... AUSTRALIA. 🇦🇺

The map isn’t reversed, as in flipped round, When we look at a map (not Google Maps), we are use to looking at either Mercator or Gall Peters Maps, where UK is situated in the middle of the map, 0 line of longitude runs down the centre & the international date line between Alaska and Russia is to the left and right of the map, Mercator This projection was developed by Gerardus Mercator back in 1569 for navigational purposes. Its ability to represent lines of constant course from coast to coast made it the perfect map for sailing the seas. Its popularity was so great that it became used as a geographic teaching aid even though the projection grossly distorts countries sizes. This is at its worst the closer you are to the poles. Greenland is 550% too big, it should fit into Africa 14 times! Gall-Peters This is a cylindrical world map projection, that regains accuracy in surface area. It is named after James Gall and Arno Peters. Whilst Gall, first described the projection in 1855 it was not until 1973 when Peters, began to heavily market the projection as the ‘Peters World Map’ that it became popular. He called it a “new invention” that allowed poorer, less powerful nations to be restored to their rightful proportions. It is thought that the first use of the name ‘Gall Peters’ was by Arthur Robinson (Robinson Projection) in a pamphlet produced by the American Cartographic Association in 1986. This map is actually a Pacific Ocean Map, where the international Date Line runs down the centre of the map and the 0 line of longitude is to the left and right of the map, 🇬🇧😎👍🏼

You should react to the one where they just ask the passersby to point to America on the map. Yes - that's ALL they have to do: point to their own home country.

I enjoyed that more than I thought I would 😂. Well done guys

I remember seeing a similar show to this years ago where the presenter asked random people in the street what they thought about the war with Afghanistan at the time. Every one of them said the US should wipe Afghanistan off the map but when asked to point out even an approximate location of Afghanistan on a world map, none of those people pointed to anywhere near the Middle East. One woman pointed to Australia and another pointed to western Europe 😮. Scary indeed.

I asked this to my american friend, who is well educated, well travelled and has lived in Europe, he absolutely aced this test. I made him stop after country 100 or so. ( he's brilliant, not kidding) In return he asked me to name all 50 US states,.... i only got to 43 and felt bad. After that i took the US citizen test online, and passed!!! just to piss him off. 😂 ( fyi i did study a whole afternoon for that, so not out of nothing, those questions about the legislative branch very few europeans would get right without studying) the rest was pretty much knowledge i already had.

As a natural born American I lived in the mid-west for 60+ yrs, except for many trips abroad, to learn what the world is really like. When I returned home, tried to talk to other Americans about my (wonderful) experiences abroad, nothing but blank stares, looks of confusion. Most tuned out, walked away after a minute or two. The American mindset has always been, we live in the greatest country in the world, we have everything here, so, I don't need to waste good American money on traveling to other countries, when all their people want to move to the U.S. to be like us. They don't even have TV over there. YES, a American actually said that to a visiting foreigner. Americans truly believe, unless it pays well, they don't need to know it. So, who cares about other countries, we certainly don't!

I would like to say that I’m surprised with this, but I’m not at all surprised. America has always had this thing with isolationism, only getting involved when they have had to, don’t get me wrong, happy they are on our side. Merry Christmas to our American friends from the UK.

Y'All are fun! I love geography, too!

Just goes to prove “folks are dumb where we come from”. US education system proven to be truly amazing yet again.

You'd think they would know where Canada or Mexico was at least? These are people that have presumably had access to Google Maps on their phone for years now

The level of ignorance is astonishing. Saying that, I doubt they’d have any problem naming all the members of the Kardashian family.

I love the flag behind you,it’s Wales where I live ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

That's so nice of you to stick up for your fellow UNEDUCATED !!! You did pretty good !! 👍🏼👍🏿👍🏻✌🌲🌻🇺🇦💛💙

A great parlour game is to have an outline of Europe with no borders marked then ask folks to draw in where the countries are That is quite funny. The best thing is the quizmaster needs to have an overlap of the actual countries. In my classroom this was last day of term type stuff and I had an epidiascope so the students could do it on paper and I had an overlay.

South Africa's over here somewhere (points to West Africa.) Doh.

Having visited the US many times it always amazes me how insular Americans are. American news programmes seem to forget the rest of the world exists, I was over there in November 1989 and the collapse of the Berlin wall, one of the biggest events of that (and any other) year was about the fourth or fifth story on the main news channels, as if it was some kind of afterthought.

There is a quiz show in Britain called Richard Osman's House of Games and one of the rounds is called 'Where is Kazakhstan?' and the contestants have to place a marker on a map where a place or landmark is or something happened and half the time they get even the country wrong! Mind you, at least they have heard of the countries they got wrong!

The boy at the end was a tourist. hahaha

Love the Welsh flag behind you guys, most people in Europe would not be able to point to Wales on a map

This is unbelievable - to be so thick as to not even to recognise their own country 😂

The problem is that Americans are taught that the USA is the centre of the universe.

I just love you two guys, well done with your answers, but you have to admit that with the exception of the young boy the rest of it is nothing short of frightening.

Not being good at geography is one thing, but not being able to point out the country you're in is a little embarrassing

Australia would stand out as the almost continent sized country, I’d have thought.

There’s a children’s tv show from the 90’s called wakomanics I think that’s how you spell it where the use that map n turn it into a song

It was great to see that last young boy knowing so much more than any of the young adults who came before him. It's not just the woeful ignorance exhibited by many in videos like this, but the apparent lack of curiosity and desire to understand the world that has contributed to that ignorance. I find it sad that even with resources like Google at their fingertips many don't take the opportunity to educate themselves more widely to understand the world they live in better. One problem, I believe, is that the attention span of many younger people is noticeably shorter these days, and the retention of learned information seems poorer even among young adults. Internet and smart phone technologies have so much of real educational value to offer and yet people let themselves be distracted and preoccupied instead with celebrity culture, TikToks and other vacuous forms of social media. It's called "dumbing down"...

To be fair when I look at a map North and South America are on the left and Europe)/Asia etc on the right. That was probably deliberately done

That portrait of you behind you on the wall is beautiful..

Check Jaywalk… he used to do similar quizzes on people on the street 👌

I had a friend many years ago thought he could get a job teaching at Oxford Uni England and fly home for the weekends to Australia. Needless to say I utterly flabbergasted 🫤

I love the Welsh flag in the background!

Every kid should have a globe in their home and spend a few minutes a day looking at it and familiarizing themselves with world geography.

The two that get me are Greenland and Australia that are both pretty big and isolated on the map.

If you want to test your knowledge of countries there is a quiz where you get a country name and have to click on the appropriate part of the map You could do it as a competition between yourselves see how you do on Europe.

Would have thought Australia by it's shape would give it away and surely they could point out the US.

You both are better than me at geography. Also I can never remember all the country's in Europe in one go. I get to 15 -20 and thats about it. Too many to remember in one go 🙂👌

Ethan, they didn't "reverse" the positions of the countries. They only showed the world map from a different vantage point.

i would think these shows are fake, but i've asked people similar questions and they've had no clue. Obviously they only keep the good clips though.

Nobody watching in the UK will be surprised by this.

Poor old Yanks, they have no hope...... Bless 'em

As a Brit who wasn't into Geography either, I could probably only name as many as you two did, maybe a couple more. But no way I could name the ones in South America like that kid. I bet he can point and name all the states in the USA as well

Hello Ethan and Angela. I was the sort of kid who would sit there with an atlas and learn the countries and capitals. This video explains why, on arrival in Texas on the Greyhound, my friend saying we were from England got the response "Did you come all the way on the bus?" 🌎🏜🏝🌊🚌🌊🏖🏞🌍

We have a play in Germany called 'Stadt, Land, Fluss' where you have to name a term of these and some other categories with the same initial letter which you call out first. This would probably help to just name countries (and to realize there is a whole world around the US).

your mouse cursor was on alaska when u said australia?

I wonder if older people might have done better on that quiz, not because we're smarter, but because we learned geography in an age when you couldn't just Google stuff. Presumably, geography is still being taught in schools. My guess would be that students in later generations "round file" the information after the test because they don't want to waste mental resources on stuff they can just look up. I read that one of the smartest people who ever lived, Albert Einstein, refused to commit his own phone number to memory because he could just look it up. This was back in the days of telephone directories when everyone's number was public information.

Greenland isn't a country, it's a territory belonging to Denmark

The US citizens suffer from the handicap of their country never having an empire. Us baby boomer British kids went through school during the break-up of the British empire. Having once conquered a quarter of the globe, knowing countries and capitals was part of both our history and geography. Also the US is more a continent in style, and so the people are more self contained, and do not need to relate to the rest of the world in the same way as European citizens do.

How many could you have named before your channel?

Lovely to see my country's flag behind you.

Very windy here today (Saturday) You did very well but yes I'd struggle with most African country's too.

at 5:31 the jimmy kimmel video is desynced with the audio. And doesn't get synced up for the rest of the video.

Well Americans vote for 80 yers old dudes as President.. 😂 Name 10 countrys that do that... 😮

If you two would like to see people interacting with geography as globetrotters in yr own time or even as a reaction there's two channels I know of in which you might be interested that I can recommend Kyde and Eric,, two Americans spent their first year going around the world came back home got married relocated to Japan been there over ten years now and goto other countries or tour Japan usually by slow transport Itchy boots,, lovely lady from the Netherlands has toured the globe or entered arduous trekking competitions 99% on her own using just her motorbike a GPS and two small GoPro cameras , now lives in Africa which she goes on large adventure tours across many borders,, when she's not still navigating other continents🎉😊 both have yaaaaaardss of content and footage well worth the entertainment education and beautiful spectacle

It's not flipped, but I know what you mean. That going to be my question, since we Brits are familiar with being in the centre, as Al Murray explained. I guess you use the same map with zero longitude in the middle.

As a Canadian I’m really insulted

Sorry, as a Brit, I couldn't watch all of this and had to stop half way through. It's too embarrassing watching American adults try to answer questions that most children from the rest of the world could answer.

To an Australian the map looks correct. Our Eastern coast line shows the Pacific Ocean with the Americas and every nation living on the Pacific rim to our East/right hand side, including New Zealand, and our Western coastline shows the Indian Ocean with Africa (the Continent), to our West/left hand side. Only Antarctica is below us and Asia/Asian subcontinent/ Middle East/ European Continent/nations to the North of us. Some people don’t know Australia is a continent and many don’t think to include Antarctica as a continent if asked.

Have they heard of Mexico 🇲🇽?

I'm a European. I can name hundreds of countries. Why can't Americans? Over to you Americans................

Just as an FYI they didn't "flip" the map, its not in reverse, they just rotated the earth around a bit from the angle its normally laid out at. England and europ is normally in the middle, where as on this map the earth rotated a bit more so now england and europe and now coming backaround onto the left side. Every american should be able to at least name "North america/united states" they dont have to find it and point at it, just name it..

Wearing a baseball cap INSIDE looks VERY intelligent... 😁 And asking Americans to name any country on a map is already done numerous times (they can't); what else is new?

Glad to see the Red Dragon behind you!

Love the flag on their wall.

On the bright side, no one pointed to the sea.

Name a country in Africa. This is off the top of my head: Egypt. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Chad, Sudan, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Lesotho, Mauretania, Senegal, Namibia, Botswana. Still missed a lot. But I’d say that’s about 2/3rd to 3/4ths.

I have never been to Jillie, but my cat's name is Jillie! Jillie Vanillie in fact! :) A shy meow from Switzerland. :)

Sorry to be so negative, but I came to the conclusion many years ago on a trip to Florida that your average American knows only what happens in America and the rest of the world doesn't seem to exist

Nice to see the Welsh flag!

I wouldn't worry too much about your fellow Americans. I suspect only the hopeless ones made the edit for comedic value and then the kid to put them all to shame. I reckon the orientation of the map was just to bait the flat earthers.

Well, Americans; there´s a whole world outside the U.S. borders...

Imagine sitting on the couch in the evening and that chick says "Im going to be on tv tonight, let's watch"....I wouldn't be there at sunrise.

I'm confused by the fact that Britain is on the left, but even I could have got at least 5.

My guess is there were quite a few people that answered this no prob - but they don't include their answers because its not good tv.

But look at the Map..it's in reverse to what it is normally, they should have some idea though

Well done, that kid! 👍

You'd think Australia would be pretty obvious. Americans have no idea of where in the world they are.

Frightening ignorance.

They didn't "flip" the map. The Earth's land mass is being presented from the Pacific viewpoint.

It’s a sad reflection on the state of the USA!

I can name several countries: London, Sydney, Paris, Tokyo and the biggest country: The Moon.

I used to be able to name every country. But Yugoslavia and Czehoslovakia split up, Germany reunited and a bunch of others changed their names ... so no longer.

Yeah but in america they're the whole world...cos everythin revolves around america..right?.lol