It's like the person who make this map seems to forget the vast number of films and TV shows that the US makes and exports worldwide where each location is made perfectly clear.
Funnily enough, there are a couple Europeans just in these comments confirming it. Just as there are actually plenty of Americans that know the general layout of European countries, of course there are plenty of Europeans that actually know the general layout of American states.
Doesn't change the fact that there are plenty of both that have no idea on it.
Most Europeans know Texas, New York, Florida, and California. Florida is more or less just the little tip anyway, so we're pretty close there, and California makes up most of the West Coast, so that's pretty easy to place too. Texas is just the middle to south of the US, and New York City is somewhere on the northern half of the East Coast. The northern parts of the US, those not covered by New York, Texas, and California, are mostly areas of uncharted wilderness, with a few cities scattered about.
This is what it seems like after discussing this with my friends, but of course a lot of Europeans will be able to place every single state, probably even on this unbordered map.
Doesn't change the fact that there are plenty of both that have no idea on it.
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This is what it seems like after discussing this with my friends, but of course a lot of Europeans will be able to place every single state, probably even on this unbordered map.