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Eh, close enough.

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I was gonna say.

Want to see the map of Asia that most US-Americans could draw.

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53 points

Nobody’s asking anyone to draw a map from memory. They’re asking a news channel to put in the 5 seconds of googling it takes to procure an accurate map.

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            Russia
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    Iran     | China | Japan
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Saudi Arabia | India | Vietnam
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4 points

I’d add in Mongolia and call Myanmar Burma at first but otherwise, yeah.

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8 points

Basically China, India and Japan with a Vietnam somewhere but they don’t want to talk about it.

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9 points

Hey now, North Korea is in there somewhere by Vietnam, too.

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3 points

No american knows India is in Asia. They think Asia is just south east Asia. I’ll allow that for the Brits tho

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China, India, Vietnam, Russia, Australia.

Probably Japan.

Maybe Tibet. Maybe Pakistan. Not sure about Afghanistan.

Australia would include Papua, Vietnam would get the rest of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, you name it. It was a big war, must’ve been a big place. Who even knows what countries are there? It’s like the Balkans of Asia. India would look mostly the same, a bit bigger.

If Pakistan is included it probably would include Afghanistan as Afganistan is definitely in the Middle East and not in Asia, but Pakistan (If they remember it, with the weird border ritual video that became so popular) is so closely associated with India that there’s a chance it’s included. Maybe India gets Pakistan while Pakistan ends up around Iran.

China gets a lot of Kazakhstan, all of Mongolia and some of Russia. It’s possible some random chunk of western China gets the name Tibet. Russia stays mostly the same, whether they or China get the Korean peninsula is a toss-up. There’s a decent chance the Russian border just gets moved way north.

Depending on who you ask, Korea might also be included as it’s own thing. But it might end up in a weird place like Vladivostok, the Kola peninsula, or some place in China.

There’s a decent chance they know most of the main islands of Japan and it ends up looking a little cursed but mostly in the right place. I’m thinking it would either stop short of Hokkaido or seize Sakhalin.

Central Asia doesn’t exist.

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That’s cool and all, but if we’re directly correlating this, then I think it would be more like you drawing out the provinces in China or India.

China I could maybe get Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet kinda right, I’d try to get Guangdong, Szechuan and Xi’an, the rest I’m screwed (Heibei maybe? Guangzhou? Idfk). Perhaps I’d be better to stick to the 3 kingdoms.

India I’m much more screwed. Kashmir, North India, South India, Delhi, something called Gujurat maybe, Bengal, Pashtun?, Bombay, Goa? Throw the Ganges somewhere in there in the North and East…a desert in the west, North and South Mountains that are not called mountains? Now that I’m thinking about it, I’d probably draw it out as Kashmir, that big strip that hugs the Ganges and Himalayas where Delhi is, and Texas.

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I would hope you’d find Russia on a map too

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china, japan, vietnam, korea, taiwan and I think tibet,

So … China, then

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3 points

i wanna see the map of the USA that most USAians can draw

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I was going to be all proud and then I realized you said “most”…

Oof.

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China and India are about right, Japan’s south of Taiwan, Vietnam is labeled South Korea, all the other islands are “you get the idea” squiggles. The rest is a wash. Anyone who remembers the Philippines is in the Armed Forces. Anyone who can place Thailand encrypts their hard drive.

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2 points

All of central Asia is “Afghanistan?”.

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47 points

If you had to condense it for a videogame, this would cover most bases.

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9 points

Los Santos, Liberty City, Vice City.

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10 points

And the big empty bit in the middle to hide the loading.

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7 points

That’s just Red Dead.

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2 points

GTA 7: Great Plains, Cacti, and Propane

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36 points

I don’t get this though. Maps are free online. You don’t even have to guess anymore.

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Exactly. Maps are free. Joke maps are also free. So instead of paying money, and somebody taking that money and assuring you this is the right thing. You get a free map, that might be a joke, but you don’t know it’s a joke cuz you don’t know the map. And we get some funnies

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8 points

Where do they take maps from? 9gag? I mean, maps.google.com is free. It can’t be any easier.

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7 points

I mean 9gag stands for 9 Good American Guys right? What better place to get your accurate American maps from?

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5 points

Google images most likely

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1 point

Yes, I’m sure using Google content on your commercial news channel is simple as can be.

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Have you ever tried drawing a map from memory? It’s interesting, what you do and don’t remember and why. That’s why this is funny - what’s salient to the other person and what’s not. No American would want Florida to be bigger, for instance.

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36 points

Honestly not far off

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I’m guessing this was an in-the-nutshell style meme, and they just didn’t know enough to sense the ironic oversimplification.

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If you’re going off memory. Where did this image come from? Did the channel make it or did they grab it off a search?

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