American takes European Country Quiz
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Ryan: Never heard of Kosovo. Serbs: That's my boy ;) .
Kosovo is Serbia comments coming.
@@unwokeneuropean3590 (Nervous sweating intensified) :D
@@unwokeneuropean3590yeah... 😮💨
Kosovo is not a UN legal country so that's still Serbia.
Same with Taiwan and China.
also he could look at the flag :)
Once an American girl asked me why there are so many different languages in Europe. As a German how to answer this highly intelligent question? Finally i said 'The reason for so many different languages in Europe is, we lost WW II.' You know how she reacted? 'Ooh, i'm so sorry for you guys.'
This discovers everything about general knowledge in USA.
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😂😂😂😂😂 Ah!!!Americanos, gente tosca e burra!!!!😅😅
her question was stupid
So why there are so many languages in America , Asia , Africa too ?
lol yes if the Germans had not lost the war, all the countries of Europe would speak German. But fortunately this is not the case.
@@anriettecooper6935 with my answer i tried to give her the option to start thinking, but she failed badly. (Sorry in case of wrong writing. Within the last years i'm missing practise in (at?) writing in English).
Bro clicked on Bosnia 17 times 💀💀
I was once in Texas with a Belgian friend. When asked "where are you from? ", he said "Belgium". He got "Ah, South America" back 🤣
What?!!!
Im now in Wisconsin, im from Czechia, on reception lady ask me where Czechia is, so i Answered Central Europe, she was like oh thats nice there is coming tommorow another guy from Central Europe. So i asked wich country, she answered : Mongololia i think...
Here's my perspective on knowledge.
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with not knowing something. We all started out life knowing absolutely nothing about ANYTHING.
The problem, IMO, is when you are an adult and you don't KNOW that you don't know something.
There are tons of things I don't know, but you won't see me thinking I know things that I don't.
What I can't understand (and can't respect) is when someone assumes something and then just assumes that they are right. That's far worse than a simple lack of knowledge. Some people seem to have a delusional belief that they can't be wrong about something and that's why they'll say things like, "Oh right, Belgium. That's in South America."
A more reasonable person would say, "I'm sorry, I don't know much about Belgium. Is that one of the countries in South America or Europe?"
@@UTU49 That is the think called Dunning-Kruger-Effekt. :)
shoulda replied "And you're Texan? How'd you get here all the way from Asia?"
Well , you can locate Norway so you are better at geography than 99,99% of american people
And he did not mix Sweden and Switzerland.
And he got Austria, with all those kangaroos everywhere . . .
Norway is too easy. It's a very recognisable country.
@@LeviwoscWe all have our own standards ya, I love the Scandinavian good shoes countries too ❤
But I admit maybe I would have mixed up norway and sweden.
Sry, but I still love them a lot ❤
I was confusing Norway and Sweden for a long time even being European, but now I remember country who attacked us and stole our cultural heritage, so Norway must be next to it. 😀
Ryan: 'Oh no that's Andorra' Ryan about five minutes later: 'Andorra?? I've never heard of it!' 😂
Let's troll him and call it "PANDORA" instead. 🤭🤣🤣🤣
LOL
You better keep Andorra in mind
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Well he did say he is unable to remember things.
Bwahahaha- I've been to Andorra. Very scenic!
That wasn't so bad , really u did a good job and i'm pretty sure it was above average. Well done.
Love how you clearly knew where Spain was 🥰
Actually you did better than some Europeans.
Greetings from Spain ❤
I understand if Europeans mess up with for example eastern Europe BUT SPAIN????
@@LordDanielG He did better guessing other less known countries than Spain.
That's what I ment lol
@@LordDanielG Knowing Spain is not in Mexico is a W in my agenda xD
Kosovo...
Clicks on Serbia.
Serbians: score!
NATO: nope.
He actually did the same thing but reversed - clicked on Macedonia for Bulgaria :D
@@BalkanSlav R: North Macedonia? Were is South Macedonia?
Me: Technically you could call it Greece. But that could probably offend so many people...
@@Diveyl The North Macedonian flag has copied the former Rising Sun Flag of Imperial Japan.
😂Good one!
@@BalkanSlav That is because Bulgaria is Macedonian land.
The Kosovo one was so funny, just cause their borders are right there on their flag 😂
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Was looking for this comment 😂
Cyprus too.
Oh my, never realized that!
That's how you know the country is fake, when they need to put their pic so ppl know who they are.
Spanish here, born in 76, I think most of us my age still struggle with Eastern European countries, specially when we had to change from learning former comunist countries like Yugoslavia or the URSS to the new map after all the wars and things after the fall of the Berlin wall
That was pretty solid - good job! 👏🏼
As a swiss guy I am so glad you didn't confuse switzerland with sweden. Americans ask me if I speak swedish all the time.
Do you speak Swedish?
Must be the swiss-german intonation😄
I was surprised to hear from a Swiss woman that surprisingly many Europeans can’t tell the two apart.
I could understand confuse Switzerland and Austria since they are next to each other, but with Sweden??
I was unable to make an American woman understand that Sweden and Switzerland are two different countries. She explained "in the US we call it Sweden". I gave up.
Of all the americans I‘ve watched doing this, you did by far the best and not much worse than I (German) would have done. Congrats!
Idiota es poner a UK en USA y.......a España en México 😂😂😊
Los pequeños países y territorios Europeos son muy difíciles de ubicar, en los años 80 ,muchos, no existían como tal.😊
Germans - the Americans of Europe?
I'm an American and I would've gotten 100%
@@xFurashuxsurely not
I agree with you. I'm German and I don't know a lot about eastern countrys.
I think you did really well on this!
Omg! We had to study geography on this same website!! Europe was the hardest one for me, because there are so many small countries!
I remember my history teacher getting us to remember that the little space between Lithuania and Poland is also Russia, because they needed a port :]
I am German and also struggle with South-East Europe, like many others. That was a solid performance from you. You knew 10x more than the average American. Good Job Ryan!
Add a zero, and it works. I've seen Americans struggle with the "big ones" in Europe in similar competitions. Overall, this was a solid performance.
Doing this for US states, I would probably do better than 60%, but I also think, that I've practiced more than the average European with US states...
Just use Yugoslavia 😂
Youre really bad at geography then
@@notyourdad361 And you are better? Show it, bigmouth!
well "many others" ? really ? we must know different germans then xD the balkans are literally one of our biggest holiday places xD
also slovakia xD
Being from The Netherlands, I’ve explained to quite a few Americans that we’re not part of Denmark. So you win!
You aren't ? Really ? That's a new one on me.
They are part of the Nether Empire ofc.
Wait... Denmark? I would unerstand if they thought you were part of Germany or Belgium but Denmark? That makes no sense whatsoever.
@@PiousMoltaramericans are interesting
I think Trump thought that Finland wad kind of Russian. No wonder Putin played him like a violin
Once a Chinese student asked me if Spain was inside of Mexico or other way around. I said we are neighbors separated by Atlantic river
You did pretty well. Congrats !
I'm European and I can confirm you did well. Good job Ryan! I would probably struggle to place 60% of American states.
Why would you have to know American states? That'd be like asking people to know all the prefectures of France. The quiz is about countries in europe, so something analogous would be countries in America
those are not sovereign countries why should you know every one of them?
@@tuluppampamI know all the state and I’m European.
That’s knowledge.
@@liamzulficari8729 do you know all the first level subdivisions of any European country?
@@tuluppampam Not from all but you misunderstood me.
I meant I know all European countries and all US states:)
9:43 - _"Where is South Macedonia?"_
A valid question. There's no South Macedonia, but Macedonia, which is a part of Greece. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, North Macedonia was named "Republic of Macedonia", which led to a dispute with Greece. So in 2018, they renamed their country to "Republic of North Macedonia".
5:22 - _"Why is it (Liechtenstein) inside Switzerland?"_
It's a very, very small princedom between Switzerland and Austria, they speak a dialect very similar to Swiss German, use the Swiss Francs as currency and play in the Swiss soccer league.
btw: you did very, very well.
ooohhh the macedonians won't be happy to read this. They invented the world, Macedonia is a continent and every king ever was a macedonian.
@@chopie7 That's not true! There are several kings from other countries. For example King Crimson (UK) or Burger King (USA).
@@tobi8676 💀💀💀 burger king
For a long time I thought that the name of North Macedonia was Fyr Macedonia. That was because it was often written like that in some International competitions like sports, Eurovision, etc. Later I realized FYR was just abbreviation if Former Yougoslavian Rebublic. But I often told to others about the strange country called "fyyyyyrrrrr Macedonia". 😅 (I am from Finland and I suck at geography).
im greek
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WOW I'm impressed. You did better than I probably ever could.
I don't blame you Ryan! Despite Europe being the world's smallest continent, it is jam packed with more countries for its size than any other!
Was that an "Australia doesn't exist" joke?
Europe isnt a continent by definition
@@kylemenoscontinents have a not very decisive definition...
Like europe, Asia, Africa, NA, SA, Oceania and antarctica is just as valid as africeurasia, americas, Oceania and antarctica.
There's a map men video about this.
@@kylemenos Then why is Europe included on the Olympics rings then?! So Europe is its own continent!
@@Taromisaki666 Technically it's Australasia (Oceania). Well since you mention that, New Zealand, Fiji, and other islands will say that too I imagine since you left them out lol! Besides Oceania spans out much wider than Europe!
You did pretty well! I’m German and I always struggle with the Eastern European countries. Mostly because so much has changed since I learned it at school like the Soviet union and the Yougoslavia broke apart and brought us like 20 new countries.
Your country broke them apart
You’ve only had about 20 years to catch up but no worries, you’ll get there.
Let's all just chill in our countries and work together ❤
And nobody don't invade anybody ❤
Yup, what you learnt as a child is hard to "unlearn".
@@Xiroi87 are you referring to anything specific?
A few tips to remember eastern Europe:
the closest to Italy is Slovenia, Albania is right in front of Italy's heel, Croatia eats Bosnia, the biggest Balkan is Serbia, the three tiny nations underneath are (from W to E) Montenegro, Kosovo and N. Macedonia. Bulgaria is lion shaped, Romania is on top of it, kinda shaped like a snake that ate an elephant. Moldova and Italy are both boot shaped. Slovakia and Hungary are one on top of the other.
*the most great in balkan are roumania.
Lmao. I always thought Romania kind of looked like a goofy fish.
It would also be useful to know that Hungary, the Czech Republic or Slovakia have been in Central Europe for the last 1000 years. To refer to them as Eastern Europe is like considering the US a British colony. :)
wooo you did great!!! i expected less tbh :D good job
Don't worry Ryan, many of us who went to school before the breakup of many eastern European countries, also get confused, as they were under different country names when we were going to school, so you did very well considering you are not European, well done Ryan
Yep. Russia was USSR when I was in school. And Czech Republic and slovakia were one country
I was never good in learning countries so all countries of the former USSR except Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus are saved as "Ostblock".
@@giftofthewild6665It is a great feeling to read that you know that my coutry Slovakia was together with Czech republic Czechoslovakia in the past😁💥👏 Thanks for good knowledge!
URSS, Jugoslavia, Cecoslovacchia and that was it 😁
@@sevenseconds8652 ....and are now - how many countries???? 10+
Answering your question about where is Sourh Macedonia. Macedonia is the name of the north region of greece too. Macedonia, the country, agreed to change it's name to North Macedonia to finish a diplomatic dispute with Greece.
I remember working with an EU agency dealing with "The Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia". That was a pain to keep writing; North Macedonia is a lot easier!
There was a guy in my school from Macedonia in Greece and if you said he was from Macedonia it really wound him up (so we said it of course)
@@jacquieclapperton9758 FYROM
@@jacquieclapperton9758But it's a fake name. "Vardarska" (a name they that had for centuries) is even better
Malta here! Glad you managed to spot us :P
You clicking Moldova so many times kinda makes me happy for my country to get this spotlight lol
The way he pronounced Monaco was way too funny!
Surprised you didn't get this one as Princess Grace of Monaco was a US citizen. Aka the actress Grace Kelly.
Kosovo too, for some reason he kept saying ko-so-vo when it's kos-ov-o. Just sounds so weird to shift half a syllable over like that.
Perhaps , when he has never heard of a country , he therefore would not know how to pronounce it ?🤔
@@weejackrussell Monaco is also pretty famous amongs Formula 1 fans, because of the Montecarlo grand prix
it was weird from en english speaker's perspective but in russian you also say it like that i believe
My preconception of Americans tells me you did much better than the average. I feel I would get also only about 60% right if I had to locate US States, so I'd say this was pretty decent!
Comparing European countries to US states 🤡❌️
Comparing European countries to North American countries 🗿✅️
Comparing countries to states 🤡 🤡 🤡
@@nialldean9791 in this case its pretty comparable tbh
@@100100freak It's not. Comparing countries to states is never comparable, unless it's for cherrypicking
@@MW_Asura In a contest between an American (as in an US citizen) and an European, it is comparable. The US is huge and asking about the 50 states against European countries is kinda equally hard. Otherwise Europeans would have a huge advantage cause there are way less countries in North America than in Europe.
After placing like 15 countries in Moldova you at least managed to avoid the final blunder of not finding Moldova.
I found your channel by chance and I think it's very good. I like your style and your reactions, they are so relatable. 😀
This quiz is not easy even for Europeans and I would be happy if I could classify american states even half as well.
Best wishes from Berlin Germany
As a Romanian, I did have a good giggle about Bulgaria and Moldova being assigned as so many others. 🤭 You did well! And hey, even if you messed up some, it was a good reminder of their placement. ❤
Cred că majoritatea românilor nu au o părere prea bună despre moldoveni, eu obișnuiam să fac glume cu prietenii mei români că mi-ar plăcea foarte mult să o vizitez.
Oof, imi pare rau sa aud asta. Nu la asta ma refeream. Mi s-a parut amuzanta ideea de a avea alti vecini, intr-o situatie ipotetica in care harta ar fi fost compusa din raspunsurile acestea gresite, atata tot. Mi se par apropiati vecinii pe care ii avem defapt, cu foarte multa lume faina in fiecare tara in parte! 😊
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Many people seems to think that Europe is this big unified place, but it's not. Plenty of people in Western and Northern Europe don't know much about Southern and Eastern Europe.
True, I'm European and I too struggle with Eastern Europe
If I wouldn't be a geography nerd I wouldn't know much about eastern Europe either so yea he did good
I've heard in many western european countries during the iron curtain they didn't even show the warsaw pact countries when showing the weather map. 😢
Western Europe is easy - there's a few big countries and a couple tiny ones. But the Balkans are a bunch of small countries next to each other, I probably wouldn't get everything correct there. But people should at least be able to locate the bigger Eastern countries like Ukraine or Romania.
I know almost all the names and flags from the Eurovision Song Contest but the location? That's more difficult. I had to guess that Estonia is the most northern Baltic country because the flag is the coldest looking 😆🇪🇪
so...how many time did you practise before showing us this clip ? ;-)
Nothing wrong with a bit of practice
For me it was a little funny because he clicked on Moldova for 4-5 times 😊
And then proceeds to claim "its kinda luck" 😅
Tbh... I had low expectations from an American, so you really impressed me 😂 However, I laughed so hard for you clicking Moldova at every single East-European country and later struggle to find Moldova itself and calling it luck. Loved the determination ❤
Got spoiled 😭 gosh dang it! This is also the same hour I'm gonna be watching a reaction video about 7&8!
Istanbul - the biggest European city - is shown as Asia but Cyprus, which is fully Asia and Middle East is shown as Europe...
I think you did very well! I know that a lot of Europeans struggle with the "new" countries in ex Yugoslavia.
Yeah that's the hard mode part of Europe. I would have switched Kosovo and Montenegro. I got everything else right though.
@@DarkprosperFriendly Kosovo is Serbia:)
1:00 Barely a minute in and you're already hitting dangerous zones.
Quiz: Click on Hungary
*points at Slovakia*
*laughs in Habsburg*
Proud of you! Been in New York, LA, Miami couple of times.
Ryan, your video here motivated me to go to that quiz website and I have crammed to the point where I can do each and every country in the world (197 of them) in under 12 minutes. At first I was just like you here in Europe as well as the other continents but I refused to stop studying until I was perfecting it. I'm quite pleased with myself now that I have an understanding of where every country is if I hear something in the news.
Impressive! I started studying europe and us states, i can now do most states, europe consistently and europe boarderless with 70-80% success, tho my proudest achievement was doing europe boarderless and the first country i got was Luxembourg and i just without hesitation clicked right into it
Congratulations man !💪🌟
Congratulations.
Eastern european country: exists
Ryan: Must be where Moldova is then
You did very well mate
What is this site? Or app? What is it?
I will never believe Ryan again, when he calls himself an "ignorant American". He did better on that quiz, than most Europeans would
What killed me is the pronunciation of Kosovo and Monaco. I can't 🤣🤣🤣
if you do worse then this you either have dementia or are american
Even for us europeans the balkans are uncharted territory.
No he watched the program before and memorised the map of Europe.
@@josecoronadonieto6911don't talk for all europeans
I think you did really well! I’m Norwegian and I struggle with the former Yugoslavian countries too.. 🤓👍
Mi iz bivse jugoslavije se patimo sa drzavama kao sto su: norveska, svedska, finska
@@oskng
Really ? Because it's not that hard compared to the countries in the East...
@@shizukagozen777 zasto nije tako tesko??? Recimo hrvatska (croatia) je sluzbeno postojala od 7 stoljeca. Mozda je nama problem jer rijetko putujemo u te drzave. Iskreno prosao sam vecinu europe, ali nazalost nisam bio u norveskoj, finskoj, svedskoj, estoniji. Nadam se da cu jednog dana otici i tamo turisticki.
@@oskng
It's not so hard because there only THREE countries to remember: Norway, Sweden and Finland, meanwhile in the East, there are like 20 different countries... Having been or never been in those places has literally nothing to do with culture and knowledge but ok. Why are you even mad ? 🙄
@@shizukagozen777 krivo si me shvatio, uopce niti malo nisam ljut (ako sam ostavio slucajno takav dojam, ispricavam se) poanta moga komentara je kako svi imamo problem sa tocnim lociranjem nekih drzava i nista drugo. Nije da ne znam gdje su, ali na karti moram bolje razmisliti i vise se podsjetiti samog izgleda drzave, nego samo iz prve pogoditi.
You are really good. So many Europeans have not a answer or idear of this special Question
Not bad, actually. We Europeans do not know the American states. California, Alaska, Florida, Texas, we can talk about the rest.
Jesus christ i’m italian, and this video is really painfull. But really
Yes😳
you should do this once a month, it'll help build knowledge of europe and it'd be fun to see your progress
You did fine. 🙂👍 I don't know the outcome when i would try the same on a map of the USA.🙄
60% is pretty cool :) Your European knowledge is waaaaaaay better than my American knowlege :) Greetings from CZ :)
Not gonna lie,you did a lot better than I thought you would
Well, I'd say you did fairly well. I'd say the only ones you didn't know and should have had an idea about were Bulgaria and Slovakia, the latter particularly because you knew where the Czech Republic was, and the two countries together used to be Czechoslovakia. (And sadly, to this day, most Americans don't know that Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore, even though the split happened 30 years ago.)
Is it really 30 years already? Doesn't seem that long ago.
@@xxwookey 1994 is 30 years ago (yeah, I now feel old)
1993@@melnerud
He clicked on Bulgaria so many times too and saw the caption 😩
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia & the Soviet Union. Makes it easier to get them all.
As someone from Croatia - I can tell you that you did great 👍
You knew where Poland was! 😍 Honestly, as a Pole, I don't know exactly where Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro are... When I went to school, it was one country - Yugoslavia 🙃 I think you did well
You did better than I have done. Good job. Hi from Michigan.
Some tips… for Kosovo the shape of the country is on the flag, like cyprus. In the past some countries split like Austria-Hungary into Austria and Hungary and Czechoslovakia split into Czechia and Slovakia but the way these countries sit on the map it works that the country first in the old name is the country on the left and the last name is the one on the right. The three Baltic countries (opposite side of sea to Finland) you can memorise as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in that order of countries top to bottom. Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta and Andorra are the small, appear as dots, countries. North Macedonia used to be part of the Macedonia region in Greece so its the country north of Greece.
I use this to know which one's Hungary and Slovakia lol.
As a 70 year old Brit, with a good general knowledge, I had to learn about all the Eastern European countries since the break up of the USSR. I had not a clue. I use the online puzzles. I've done it for the African countries, which I find difficult and for the American States,. with state capitals. I found I only had a vague idea about where the States were, you know N,S, E,W, but these puzzles increase the accuracy.
Did you ever learn the difference between Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe?
You should know those eastern countries at least from History lessons, Soviet Block existed only for like 40 years, that's not such a long time to forget that these countries existed. We still remember Austria-Hungary and Prussia and that's gone for more than 100 years and WWI literally started after Serbs did some mess, so you must at least know that these countries existed. But exactly locate them is tricky even for people here in Czechia, most of us know maybe Croatia because everyone is going there for vacation, but rest of Balkan is more like random. Countries which were not part of USSR or Yugoslavia are ofcourse easier, because these were on map even between 1945-1989. I learned about Baltic countries just few years ago when I visited Latvia, I didn't know anything about them before. But it's not only about Balkan, even correcly guess which one is Belgium and which Netherlands can be hard for some people, I can select it correctly because I know that people in Netherlands will all die after glaciers will melt. 😀 Most of people would never guess there Luxembourg is even when we were ruled by Luxembourgs and it's considered our golden age, Luxembourg Emperors had Czech wives and still, people here don't know where that country is.
I've just been typing out my old diaries of driving through Yugoslavia, at the end of the Seventies, and now that is a collection of separate countries. so that's one thing I had to relearn. I was never sure where Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania were.
@@Pidalin I've travelled on the trans Siberian and learned more about that part of the world than anything I was taught at school but am still rusty about the exact position of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
@@Pidalin The people of the Netherlands will not die from flooding. They have been resourceful enough to manage so far and will do so again.
You did very good dude I'm actually curious to see how many states I can get.
🤣🤣🤣 loved this! So much fun
For a map of America, I might also do badly. I always mess up the Carribbean islands.
And I always mess up the northern coast of South America. Well, the Carribean again! 😁
I've been trying to memorize all countries and the Carribean Islands were also a bit of a struggle at first but now I've got them down perfectly 👌
Long time viewer here! Love you videos and dedication!
As someone who learned
all 50 States, then all countries, then all flags and finally all capitals, it really surprised me on how quick you were.
I have a slight feeling that you didn't went completely blind into this seeing you Netherlands guess being that quick and most of the time instantly hovering to the correct area.
To my eye, I was never good at geography but now learning mountains, rivers and major cities, I still can't shake the feeling that you did a few test runs.
Much love for you dedication. Even if you practiced, it would show how you grow as a person. It's not just for your channel, it's for life.
Kind regards!
You did pretty good. I think as long as you know where the big ones are like france, germany, italy, etc it's enough.
Man you did really really well
Tht was pretty good, I‘m impressed. So your reactions do seem to teach you a lot
you posted it! what a lad!
ive lived in the netherlands my whole life, and well... i think you guessed more countries correct, than me!
30 year old from the UK here, I have heard of and can pronounce (in an English speaking way) all of these countries, however even I wasn't taught where all of these are in school, there was a map on the classroom wall but it was never fully studied in this much detail, we learned as lists which countries are in each continent so I know which are in Europe, Asia, etc, but exactly where is tough with some of these smaller counties, don't be hard on yourself
6:47 my mum and I went on a short beach vacation to Bulgaria one summer (we're from Germany) and we spent about half our trip rescuing a stray cat at the hotel 😂 I snuck him up into the bathroom to secure him while we waited for someone from a local rescue to arrive 🤣🤣 (It took forever to find that contact, but our hotel was in an area that doesn't really have any permanent residents, so he never would have survived the winter and Jasper was so adorable and kept climbing on my lap and purring, such a sweet kitty 😻)
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@@axoram I have to say, my mum was already researching like voluntary foster care/animal protection clubs (I can't think of the proper word right now) in Bulgaria before we went there, juuuuuust in case we need to help a cat (we had been fostering for multiple years and KNEW we could never ignore a cat in need, luckily we only saw the one.. 😅😅)
You did better then i thought you would, the "balckan" region where "Serbian", "Kosovo" and the other smaller countr are can be quite a challange to rememeber. Even for swedes as well.
Yeah every time I do this quiz I need a game to refresh my memory of all the ones over there, honestly every country smaller than Ukraine that is east of Germany I can't remember 🤣 americans shouldn't feel bad about that one. Couldn't they atleast put Slovenia/Slovakia next to each other?! And merge the 15 small countries north of Greece?!
I'm an American and I can remember it :/
Swedistan is a shlthole
@@schmidth We did try merging more than a few in Yugoslavia. Didnt take. Didnt take any more than Austria-Hungary took, or Polish-Lithuanian commonwelt. Diferences and personal ambitions were greater than the will to unite. Couple of bad dictators didnt help.
@@Alex12111980 the religious conflicts certainly don't help either
As a Slovak i am sad you didn’t know mine country, but i have to say that you are definitely above average in USA comparing this type of video to others, so well done ❤
Fico is only known in the Kremlin
Hello from Sweden! I did the same quiz (Seterra Europe: Countries) and got 100 % right in 1:26. I also did the U.S. states and got 100 % right in 1:54. Then I did African countries and got 98 % right i 2:13. Then Asian countries and got 100 % right in 1:47. Then South American countries and got 100 % right in 0:25.
As a cartographer, this video was the most stressing video i ever saw
Actually, I think you did very well. Since World War II there have been so many wars between some mid-European countries that even I've lost count of how many "new?" countries there are now. Apart from the very well-known countries, in this area just looking at a map I can obviously find France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany Poland, Norway, Denmark. Sweden, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania those last 3 haven't moved or been split up or renamed, but Yugoslavia & Czechoslovakia don't exist anymore. I know where Belgium & The Netherlands are too. I also almost yelled "Where?" like you did a couple of times. Also when you shouted out loud at a lot of those names, I knew the names because they were around when I was a kid. We had all heard of Bohemia (The Bohemian set that used to meet in London all artsy & crafts, writers, actors, poets etc). A lot of those names seemed like fairy tale names or even made-up names when I was young.
The War: Kosovo forces were made up of Kosovons & Albanians and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia comprising Serbia & Montenegro & it only ended when NATO started bombing Yugoslavia making them retreat. NATO forces were sent in as peacekeepers.I had no idea that a lot of Kosovons & Albanians were Muslim. That's because Albania was once a port of the Ottorman Empire and they gradually moved North, therefore, living under the laws of Kosovo Did you know that NATO still keeps a small peacekeeping force made up of soldiers from 27 different countries to patrol along the Kosovo/Serbian border as tensions between the 2 counties are still very high. I'm sure that if the NATO soldiers left there would be another bloodbath, so for the time being (until they stop hating each other (yeah? kook at Iran/Afghanistan & the West) it's best to keep the soldiers there.
No worries, you did very well, Ryan.
I'm Danish, and I am a bit unsure about Eastern Europe and the Balkan area as well. :-)
Honeslty you did better than I expected and WAY BETTER than your fellow countrymens, so congrats on this one. You did great.
As a Latvian I can say you did quite well. I always struggle to find some of the South east European countries. There are a LOT of countries in Europe so it’s not that easy.
for a non-european you did a very good job!
He did far better than most Europeans would.
@@FacetterdkI wouldn't be so sure becouse in Europe schools we are learnig very much about other countries. For test I have to know where are all countries in the world and I scored the best mark the same as in test about countries in Europe.
You did quite well, especially for someone who isn't from the region. The small nations are usually the problem for people who aren't from the area. I know I'm not that good at identifying all of the caribbean islands. Also, a little tip: Kosovo has an outline of the country on the flag, same as cyprus.
And, as a Hungarian, I especially congratulate you for recognizing Hungary's place on the blind map for the first time. 👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Very solid atempt, dude. I respect that!
Honestly u did it real good! Even many here r not good in geography. I’m from germany and remember that many in my class had problems with east Europe.
😅 You did great, Ryan. When I was growing up we had Yugoslavia, which is now several countries and my brain still doesn't get them right.
It's 2 country's now not several
@neilbloggs5008 What are you talking about? It’s 7 countries.
@@neilbloggs5008Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo. ALL of them was once Yugoslavia.
Wow, it’s been almost 35 years ago, how old are you now? 70?
As a German I struggle, too when it comes to southeast Europe. I might have known a few more. But for someone living around the World, you did amazing. GJ
To be fair, in my experience, German education sucks when it comes to any kind of history and Geography to the east of Germany (and that even includes Austria).
Where can I find this quiz?
6:53 "I've never heard of this" literally clicked it a few minutes earlier 😂
When in doubt, always click on Moldova, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
As many times as possible.
You did really rather well.
I'm European myself, and I only got 72%. And yes, it was Eastern Europe that tripped me up too, as well as a few of the mini-countries.
How don't ppl know basic geography?
@@rk6483I had to choose between geography and Spanish class in year 8, so I only had geography for 3 years in total. Hence, why I suck at it. Before the Ukraine war, I wouldn't have been able to identify any countries East of Poland apart from Russia. And South eastern Europe is still super hard for me.
@@rk6483 I used to know it extremely well actually. But I don't actually use the geography of Eastern Europe all that much, so the exact layout of the map for that part of the world has very much faded from my memory.
That is embarrassing.
That is embarrassing.
I think you did pretty well and I think its normal not to get everything right since you don't live in Europe but in America, good job!
That was pretty good for an American . Well done 🎉
Come on Ryan, Kosovo has the shape of the country on the flag.
As a tip: benelux: Belgium-Netherlands-Luxemburg, they sit together.
And if you're somewhat interested in languages: Estnish and Finnish are are related languages. And Lithuania and Poland used to be a commonwealth, that leaves Latvia as the one in the middle.
But you did well, I wouldn't do any better with US states. And don't worry, many of us won't do better with eastern europe.
Slovakia as in the former Tchécoslovaquie ( french name, I can't remember the English name). Their places on the map are as their places on the former state, Tchèque République on the left, Slovakia on the right.
Kosovo is Serbia:)
Hungarian is the major Uralic language spoken in Europe, but sadly Finns and Hungarians are not able to understand each-others. They only share approximately 200 common words. Estonians are luckier, they can usually understand a basic conversation in Finnish..
As a Belgian, first attempt was around 72% because the balkan countries aside from Romania, Greece and Cyprus (probably not Balkan but in that area).
60% for an US american? Great success! Congrats!
Actually, that was fairly good! I mean, what can I say? You already got me at placing Austria correctly without a moment's hesitation while not even once confusing it with Australia. ;) No hard feelings though, I love Australia.
I had a mental breakdown watching this.
The 2 main general reasons were:
-him constantly clicking on Moldova
-him clicking on Russia when hes on BULGARIA