What geographic misconceptions did you have as a child? I used

>>72614265
I mixed up where scotland and ireland are and I couldn't spell austriala right

I didn't realize New Zealand was a real country and not just an Australian island until I came to /int/

>>72614265
I thought the Earth was round

>>72614265
I confused Brazil and Colombia, though Uruguay was a country. That Belgium was were Switzerland is, that Scotland was were Wales is. And that the Netherlands were near Estonia.


That's I always had a pretty decent idea of the world, but my dad collects expensive globes so it was easy mode for me.

I thought Honduras and Nicaragua are in Africa

>>72614265
New Zealand wasn't shown on many maps, so I always assumed it was located in Tasmania

That's it though, I looked at maps a lot as a child.

>>72614265
I thought we lived on a flat plane on the bottom of the universe.

When I saw documentaries where they talked about planet Earth, I just assumed that it was just another planet up in the sky, and not where we lived.

i thought togo was a pacific island

>>72614265
I thought Transylvania is not a real country

>>72616600
I thought Transylvania was a made up country for Dracula

I thought that the United States' border to the north and south was all ocean.

>>72614265
I used to think that places on the other side of the Baltic had tropical climate, because they were fr a way places beyond the sea.

In reality it's just more snow and rain...

Use to think the netherlands was just a term for all the nordic countries

>>72616931
If only it were true

>>72616931
Isn't it?

>>72616045
That's pretty cool.

I thought United States was a good country to live

I used to think Nazi Germany existed in the current year. And our brave military at the border kept them at bay.

When Quebec was trying to become independent, I thought they were going to cut it off with chainsaws and float it away.

>>72614265
I didn't learn about Poland's existence until I was 12.

I used to think Quebec was a middle eastern country. Only found out it was actually in Canada last year

I thought Aix-La-Chapelle (Aachen), Cologne (Koln), Amsterdam, Barcelone and Genève were in france

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I used to think Europe wasn't a tiny cucked continentlet

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>>72614265
I used to think the Netherlands was where Latvia and Estonia are