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Maps 🗺️

Americans are really awful at geography, even when it comes to pointing out specific states on a U.S. map. 

Check out these stats regarding young Americans (age 18 to 24) from a scientific survey done by Roper Public Affairs:

- 75% cannot find Iran or Israel on a map of the Middle East
- 63% cannot find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on this map
- 44% cannot find any of these four countries

- 88% cannot find Afghanistan on a map of Asia, 75% cannot find Indonesia and 51% cannot find Japan on the same map
- 54% do not know that Sudan is in Africa (10% think it is in Europe and 20% think it is in Asia)
- 50% cannot find New York state on a map of the USA and 57% cannot find Ohio
- only 36% can find the United Kingdom on a world map and only 30% can find Egypt on this map

On population, 29% believe the US to have 500 to 750 million people and 29% believe it has 1 billion - 2 billion people. 45% believe that China's population is about double that of the USA.

Give four choices (Russian, English, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese) only 18% are able to identify Mandarin Chinese as the most commonly spoken native language in the world.

I've included an interesting video of people trying to point out various states on a US map in real time.

https://youtu.be/YI-ouKKI5GI?si=7xkQipZpC_6Cxmyz

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