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

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

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

So … China, then

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

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

Oof.

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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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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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    Iran     | China | Japan
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Saudi Arabia | India | Vietnam
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I’d add in Mongolia and call Myanmar Burma at first but otherwise, yeah.

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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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All of central Asia is “Afghanistan?”.

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

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This ad brought to you by the bipartisan Canadiasexicans and Texasexicans super pac union for the succession of Sexico

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40 points

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Sexico sounds like what Zapp Brannigan would say is his hometown

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Or force Kif to say.

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Brannigan: Kif! Chart a course to my home state of Sexico! Kif: long sigh

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Pert’ much.

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A bit like a map on how Europe is perceived by Americans, where whole Germany is Bavaria.

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As if Americans have any idea what Bavaria is. And if they could even name one city in Germany it certainly wouldn’t be anything in the south, it’d be Hamburg, because hamburgers lol

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Isn’t heidelberg super famous because of Elvis?

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3 points

Not anymore.

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3 points

Don’t forget the Oktoberfest in Munich.

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as an American, i was going to go berlin, munich, and then “that part in the south everyone seems to hate for being hicks”

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I feel like Berlin would be more famous, with it being the capital and the Berlin wall.

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I know I don’t live in Texas because we still have electricity running here. Florida checks out though!

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