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@EddyRulz3 ай бұрын
Ryan: Never heard of Kosovo. Serbs: That's my boy ;) .
Kosovo is not a UN legal country so that's still Serbia. Same with Taiwan and China.
@czbuchi863 ай бұрын
also he could look at the flag :)
@MartyOfEarth3 ай бұрын
Ryan: 'Oh no that's Andorra' Ryan about five minutes later: 'Andorra?? I've never heard of it!' 😂
@shizukagozen7773 ай бұрын
Let's troll him and call it "PANDORA" instead. 🤭🤣🤣🤣
@ryanwuzer3 ай бұрын
LOL
@schusterlehrling3 ай бұрын
You better keep Andorra in mind kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaLCmqSoq9N2lZYsi=b52BHKJ1ZATELbOi
@Nails0773 ай бұрын
Well he did say he is unable to remember things.
@jamesvandemark20863 ай бұрын
Bwahahaha- I've been to Andorra. Very scenic!
@konstantinrheker46713 ай бұрын
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.
@nomenomeha30anosatras333 ай бұрын
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@morganadeangelis.3843 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂 Ah!!!Americanos, gente tosca e burra!!!!😅😅
@anriettecooper69353 ай бұрын
her question was stupid So why there are so many languages in America , Asia , Africa too ?
@anriettecooper69353 ай бұрын
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.
@konstantinrheker46713 ай бұрын
@@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).
@tobi86763 ай бұрын
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.
@chopie73 ай бұрын
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.
@tobi86762 ай бұрын
@@chopie7 That's not true! There are several kings from other countries. For example King Crimson (UK) or Burger King (USA).
@ger.baltav2 ай бұрын
@@tobi8676 💀💀💀 burger king
@Pehmokettu2 ай бұрын
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).
@greenforest96632 ай бұрын
im greek ;-;
@antoinehuetz71573 ай бұрын
Well , you can locate Norway so you are better at geography than 99,99% of american people
@teotik80713 ай бұрын
And he did not mix Sweden and Switzerland.
@bluur1013 ай бұрын
And he got Austria, with all those kangaroos everywhere . . .
@Leviwosc3 ай бұрын
Norway is too easy. It's a very recognisable country.
@DanielAusMV-op9mi3 ай бұрын
@@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 ❤
@Pidalin3 ай бұрын
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. 😀
@krzychch89373 ай бұрын
Kosovo... Clicks on Serbia. Serbians: score! NATO: nope.
@BalkanSlav3 ай бұрын
He actually did the same thing but reversed - clicked on Macedonia for Bulgaria :D
@Diveyl3 ай бұрын
@@BalkanSlav R: North Macedonia? Were is South Macedonia? Me: Technically you could call it Greece. But that could probably offend so many people...
@mikefraser45133 ай бұрын
@@Diveyl The North Macedonian flag has copied the former Rising Sun Flag of Imperial Japan.
@viktorija44853 ай бұрын
😂Good one!
@dejanstoimenovski23503 ай бұрын
@@BalkanSlav That is because Bulgaria is Macedonian land.
@user-dr2fd7jo5v3 ай бұрын
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
@giftofthewild66653 ай бұрын
Yep. Russia was USSR when I was in school. And Czech Republic and slovakia were one country
@jonasmockel42563 ай бұрын
I was never good in learning countries so all countries of the former USSR except Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus are saved as "Ostblock".
@ivetaczuczorova72913 ай бұрын
@@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!
@sevenseconds86522 ай бұрын
URSS, Jugoslavia, Cecoslovacchia and that was it 😁
@user-dr2fd7jo5v2 ай бұрын
@@sevenseconds8652 ....and are now - how many countries???? 10+
@alvarohidalgo65912 ай бұрын
Bro clicked on Bosnia 17 times 💀💀
@surik_at3 ай бұрын
The Kosovo one was so funny, just cause their borders are right there on their flag 😂
@aquilschutte3 ай бұрын
😅fr
@Overwijn013 ай бұрын
Was looking for this comment 😂
@spineshivers3 ай бұрын
Cyprus too.
@ekaterinaio7773 ай бұрын
Oh my, never realized that!
@nenadpopov36013 ай бұрын
That's how you know the country is fake, when they need to put their pic so ppl know who they are.
@xinlu28063 ай бұрын
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!
@anacasanova73503 ай бұрын
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.😊
@xFurashux3 ай бұрын
Germans - the Americans of Europe?
@metal_pipe97643 ай бұрын
I'm an American and I would've gotten 100%
@simonhendler24853 ай бұрын
@@xFurashuxsurely not
@NatAlia-pt9iu3 ай бұрын
I agree with you. I'm German and I don't know a lot about eastern countrys.
@The_Generall3 ай бұрын
1:00 Barely a minute in and you're already hitting dangerous zones. Quiz: Click on Hungary *points at Slovakia*
@MrBritishComedy3 ай бұрын
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.)
@xxwookey2 ай бұрын
Is it really 30 years already? Doesn't seem that long ago.
@melnerud2 ай бұрын
@@xxwookey 1994 is 30 years ago (yeah, I now feel old)
@TONAL032 ай бұрын
1993@@melnerud
@nvmffs2 ай бұрын
He clicked on Bulgaria so many times too and saw the caption 😩
@SWLinPHX2 ай бұрын
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia & the Soviet Union. Makes it easier to get them all.
@snickas3 ай бұрын
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.
@dnocturn843 ай бұрын
Do you speak Swedish?
@jahonain3 ай бұрын
Must be the swiss-german intonation😄
@timwinter133 ай бұрын
I was surprised to hear from a Swiss woman that surprisingly many Europeans can’t tell the two apart.
@ekaterinaio7773 ай бұрын
I could understand confuse Switzerland and Austria since they are next to each other, but with Sweden??
@Xiroi873 ай бұрын
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.
@Jonny_No.53 ай бұрын
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!
@rainerzufall423 ай бұрын
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...
@carkawalakhatulistiwa3 ай бұрын
Just use Yugoslavia 😂
@notyourdad3613 ай бұрын
Youre really bad at geography then
@rainerzufall423 ай бұрын
@@notyourdad361 And you are better? Show it, bigmouth!
@DaxRaider3 ай бұрын
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
@RobRochon3 ай бұрын
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.
@fedup16502 ай бұрын
I was once in Texas with a Belgian friend. When asked "where are you from? ", he said "Belgium". He got "Ah, South America" back 🤣
@AlanLindaCumming2 ай бұрын
What?!!!
@mrlolkar6229Ай бұрын
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...
@UTU4922 күн бұрын
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?"
@mrlolkar622921 күн бұрын
@@UTU49 That is the think called Dunning-Kruger-Effekt. :)
@thomasamar27003 ай бұрын
I'm European and I can confirm you did well. Good job Ryan! I would probably struggle to place 60% of American states.
@tuluppampam3 ай бұрын
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
@littlemouse70663 ай бұрын
those are not sovereign countries why should you know every one of them?
@liamzulficari87293 ай бұрын
@@tuluppampamI know all the state and I’m European. That’s knowledge.
@tuluppampam3 ай бұрын
@@liamzulficari8729 do you know all the first level subdivisions of any European country?
@liamzulficari87293 ай бұрын
@@tuluppampam Not from all but you misunderstood me. I meant I know all European countries and all US states:)
@dannytomaske3 ай бұрын
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.
@davidjr49033 ай бұрын
Your country broke them apart
@infinite3joy3 ай бұрын
You’ve only had about 20 years to catch up but no worries, you’ll get there.
@DanielAusMV-op9mi3 ай бұрын
Let's all just chill in our countries and work together ❤ And nobody don't invade anybody ❤
@Xiroi873 ай бұрын
Yup, what you learnt as a child is hard to "unlearn".
@DanielAusMV-op9mi3 ай бұрын
@@Xiroi87 are you referring to anything specific?
@reddinareddika36242 ай бұрын
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.
@theecosmetaverse3 ай бұрын
Love how you clearly knew where Spain was 🥰 Actually you did better than some Europeans. Greetings from Spain ❤
@LordDanielG3 ай бұрын
I understand if Europeans mess up with for example eastern Europe BUT SPAIN????
@theecosmetaverse2 ай бұрын
@@LordDanielG He did better guessing other less known countries than Spain. That's what I ment lol
@jetster7853 ай бұрын
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!
@Taromisaki6663 ай бұрын
Was that an "Australia doesn't exist" joke?
@kylemenos3 ай бұрын
Europe isnt a continent by definition
@hardcorelace75653 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Shapinator7213 ай бұрын
@@kylemenos Then why is Europe included on the Olympics rings then?! So Europe is its own continent!
@Shapinator7213 ай бұрын
@@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!
@SmokeyTheHeir3 ай бұрын
Being from The Netherlands, I’ve explained to quite a few Americans that we’re not part of Denmark. So you win!
@flitsertheo3 ай бұрын
You aren't ? Really ? That's a new one on me.
@arekzawistowski26093 ай бұрын
They are part of the Nether Empire ofc.
@PiousMoltar3 ай бұрын
Wait... Denmark? I would unerstand if they thought you were part of Germany or Belgium but Denmark? That makes no sense whatsoever.
@drvp_34773 ай бұрын
@@PiousMoltaramericans are interesting
@TheFrewah3 ай бұрын
I think Trump thought that Finland wad kind of Russian. No wonder Putin played him like a violin
@Knors666able3 ай бұрын
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.
@anyreiАй бұрын
I think you did really well on this!
@heron6193 ай бұрын
The way he pronounced Monaco was way too funny!
@weejackrussell3 ай бұрын
Surprised you didn't get this one as Princess Grace of Monaco was a US citizen. Aka the actress Grace Kelly.
@scragar3 ай бұрын
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.
@tonnekevankan75123 ай бұрын
Perhaps , when he has never heard of a country , he therefore would not know how to pronounce it ?🤔
@ekaterinaio7773 ай бұрын
@@weejackrussell Monaco is also pretty famous amongs Formula 1 fans, because of the Montecarlo grand prix
@toirmusic3 ай бұрын
it was weird from en english speaker's perspective but in russian you also say it like that i believe
@pedrovictorcostalesgarcia94403 ай бұрын
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.
@jacquieclapperton97583 ай бұрын
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!
@georgehelyar3 ай бұрын
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)
@budapestkeleti64043 ай бұрын
@@jacquieclapperton9758 FYROM
@ideatheke-wordpress-com24 күн бұрын
@@jacquieclapperton9758But it's a fake name. "Vardarska" (a name they that had for centuries) is even better
@Gajdosh2 ай бұрын
Very solid atempt, dude. I respect that!
@skyandy_20002 ай бұрын
You did pretty well. Congrats !
@carpeastra3 ай бұрын
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. ❤
@mikefraser45133 ай бұрын
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.
@carpeastra3 ай бұрын
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! 😊
@Gittas-tube3 ай бұрын
😊😊😊😊
@Gittas-tube3 ай бұрын
😊😊
@andreasferenczi76133 ай бұрын
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!
@nialldean97913 ай бұрын
Comparing European countries to US states 🤡❌️ Comparing European countries to North American countries 🗿✅️
@davidjr49033 ай бұрын
Comparing countries to states 🤡 🤡 🤡
@100100freak3 ай бұрын
@@nialldean9791 in this case its pretty comparable tbh
@MW_Asura3 ай бұрын
@@100100freak It's not. Comparing countries to states is never comparable, unless it's for cherrypicking
@spineshivers3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@fish_bacon3 ай бұрын
Malta here! Glad you managed to spot us :P
@Lupinemancer873 ай бұрын
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.
@GardIsPureOwned3 ай бұрын
True, I'm European and I too struggle with Eastern Europe
@LordDanielG3 ай бұрын
If I wouldn't be a geography nerd I wouldn't know much about eastern Europe either so yea he did good
@Vasil_Hristov2 ай бұрын
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. 😢
@Starkiller9352 ай бұрын
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.
@nehalilisays2 ай бұрын
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 😆🇪🇪
@sigrunwestrus683 ай бұрын
I think you did very well! I know that a lot of Europeans struggle with the "new" countries in ex Yugoslavia.
@Darkprosper3 ай бұрын
Yeah that's the hard mode part of Europe. I would have switched Kosovo and Montenegro. I got everything else right though.
@cinoeye3 ай бұрын
@@DarkprosperFriendly Kosovo is Serbia:)
@cellardoor702 ай бұрын
WOW I'm impressed. You did better than I probably ever could.
@hopmanlisa3 ай бұрын
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 ❤
@Asia-gg3yr3 ай бұрын
I will never believe Ryan again, when he calls himself an "ignorant American". He did better on that quiz, than most Europeans would
@lilyz21563 ай бұрын
What killed me is the pronunciation of Kosovo and Monaco. I can't 🤣🤣🤣
@teodorrada96693 ай бұрын
if you do worse then this you either have dementia or are american
@josecoronadonieto69113 ай бұрын
Even for us europeans the balkans are uncharted territory.
@Leslie-cg7ph3 ай бұрын
No he watched the program before and memorised the map of Europe.
@user-tr9ho6jf1q3 ай бұрын
@@josecoronadonieto6911don't talk for all europeans
@marcbecker18 күн бұрын
That was pretty solid - good job! 👏🏼
@ekinylmaz96752 ай бұрын
wooo you did great!!! i expected less tbh :D good job
@danutgradinariu26163 ай бұрын
For me it was a little funny because he clicked on Moldova for 4-5 times 😊
@turtle85813 ай бұрын
And then proceeds to claim "its kinda luck" 😅
@eucitizen783 ай бұрын
You did fine. 🙂👍 I don't know the outcome when i would try the same on a map of the USA.🙄
@billy-bo_3 ай бұрын
9:43 South Macedonia is a Greek area, and only one of Alexander the Great, generation and region..........
@DonTatari2 күн бұрын
That wasn't so bad , really u did a good job and i'm pretty sure it was above average. Well done.
@kamilarng22093 ай бұрын
I think you did really well! I’m Norwegian and I struggle with the former Yugoslavian countries too.. 🤓👍
@oskng3 ай бұрын
Mi iz bivse jugoslavije se patimo sa drzavama kao sto su: norveska, svedska, finska
@shizukagozen7773 ай бұрын
@@oskng Really ? Because it's not that hard compared to the countries in the East...
@oskng3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@shizukagozen7773 ай бұрын
@@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 ? 🙄
@oskng3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@FuckingMushroom933 ай бұрын
Eastern european country: exists Ryan: Must be where Moldova is then
@KyuuDesperation3 ай бұрын
Got spoiled 😭 gosh dang it! This is also the same hour I'm gonna be watching a reaction video about 7&8!
@ann-sophieappelt3 ай бұрын
8:04 It's basically just because Luxembourg has low taxes for some companies, that's why a lot of companies go there to save taxes. It's actually like Ireland 😂🤣 EDIT Luxemburg. "Luxembourg" is actually the French spelling 😅
@81de3 ай бұрын
you should do this once a month, it'll help build knowledge of europe and it'd be fun to see your progress
@HappyBeezerStudios3 ай бұрын
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.
@brigittelacour50553 ай бұрын
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.
@cinoeye3 ай бұрын
Kosovo is Serbia:)
@mikefraser45133 ай бұрын
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..
@terp88923 ай бұрын
You honestly did great man.. instantly knew where Denmark was so thats a win :D
@linusnoren36613 ай бұрын
This was a fun little quiz, had to try it for myself
@strubbleler3 ай бұрын
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!
@Un0rdin4rYPr0gr4mmeR3 ай бұрын
As someone from Croatia - I can tell you that you did great 👍
@jannesuono14523 ай бұрын
Proud of you! Been in New York, LA, Miami couple of times.
@GirlOfTheTardisАй бұрын
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
@Kari.F.3 ай бұрын
Don't sweat it, Ryan. I'm European (Scandinavian), and even though I have heard of every single country, I would struggle to place all of them right - especially the eastern ones.
@TheFeldhamster3 ай бұрын
Well, many of them did split and change names, though, so Eastern European countries are another level of difficulty.
@BlueFlash2153 ай бұрын
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!
@arlegan3 ай бұрын
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
@remi9n3_453 ай бұрын
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.
@dennisengelen2517Ай бұрын
I use this to know which one's Hungary and Slovakia lol.
@Lily-Bravo3 ай бұрын
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.
@cinoeye3 ай бұрын
Did you ever learn the difference between Eastern Europe and South Eastern Europe?
@Pidalin3 ай бұрын
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.
@Lily-Bravo3 ай бұрын
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.
@Lily-Bravo3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Lily-Bravo3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@lilachodan49413 ай бұрын
0:01 I love this page. This is so cool. Our teacher showed us this during pandemic when we had school online. We were supposed to this the fastest we can. Like less than one minute but we have few chances. We had grades from it. So this is so crazy that you are doing in over 10 minutes and I me and my classmates were able to do it in one minute okay two.
@mariehayes835811 күн бұрын
As an American (a Californian, even better), when I tell people I collect and sing (mostly) traditional Balkan songs, I sometimes get comments such as, "Oh, I love music from Estonia!", and other times they immediately step back, give me that suspicious look, and ask warily, "Did you say...VULCAN...music?" Baltic/Balkan/Klingon/Vulcan... Whatever... Murrica. And to be quite honest, if I had never been offered the opportunity to be an exchange student (AFS, Germany, 1984), I could easily have continued to never learn anything about the world outside of these borders. And it's not getting any better, let me assure you.
@universeartmood3 ай бұрын
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 ❤
@budapestkeleti64042 ай бұрын
Fico is only known in the Kremlin
@MrsStrawhatberry3 ай бұрын
Tht was pretty good, I‘m impressed. So your reactions do seem to teach you a lot
@Turbobuttes3 ай бұрын
After placing like 15 countries in Moldova you at least managed to avoid the final blunder of not finding Moldova.
@pizzadeliveryspringtrap915211 күн бұрын
You did pretty good. I think as long as you know where the big ones are like france, germany, italy, etc it's enough.
@vincentivarsson18183 ай бұрын
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.
@schmidth3 ай бұрын
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?!
@metal_pipe97643 ай бұрын
I'm an American and I can remember it :/
@davidjr49033 ай бұрын
Swedistan is a shlthole
@Alex121119803 ай бұрын
@@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.
@schmidth3 ай бұрын
@@Alex12111980 the religious conflicts certainly don't help either
@erurainon68423 ай бұрын
Dont be too harsh on yourself. South-east of Europe is confusing. Even locals cannot agree on which country is what 😂
@JS-19833 ай бұрын
I'm European and always struggled with south east-european countries too. I think you made it pretty good
@JaruskaTicha3 ай бұрын
You did well (and found Czech republic at first try 👍🏻👏🏻). I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be so succesfull recognizing US states 😁
@maegalodonus3 ай бұрын
When in doubt, always click on Moldova, Bulgaria and North Macedonia. As many times as possible.
@Rejistania3 ай бұрын
For a map of America, I might also do badly. I always mess up the Carribbean islands.
@tubekulose3 ай бұрын
And I always mess up the northern coast of South America. Well, the Carribean again! 😁
@duckway47333 ай бұрын
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 👌
@LaPanda2 ай бұрын
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
@evavago30802 ай бұрын
And, as a Hungarian, I especially congratulate you for recognizing Hungary's place on the blind map for the first time. 👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
@gregoriocovre2 ай бұрын
Jesus christ i’m italian, and this video is really painfull. But really
@BuildQRGКүн бұрын
Yes😳
@serbian_nationalist1421 күн бұрын
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
@Elholz3 ай бұрын
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.
@thefurbeastunderyourbed50123 ай бұрын
The old joke: "Germany, where is it?" *draws a circle around Europe* 😂
@noorpie1432 ай бұрын
Oh damn💀
@K7ANIMATION69822 күн бұрын
@@noorpie143 ERIKA!
@xanperiaАй бұрын
You did very well, no need to feel bad. I'm European and I too struggle with the countries in the South-East 😅 There are just so many countries there and it's so hard to remember the exact locations.
@bettinaknoll24002 ай бұрын
You are really good. So many Europeans have not a answer or idear of this special Question
@chronic20233 ай бұрын
😅 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.
@neilbloggs50083 ай бұрын
It's 2 country's now not several
@88marome3 ай бұрын
@neilbloggs5008 What are you talking about? It’s 7 countries.
@viktorija44853 ай бұрын
@@neilbloggs5008Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo. ALL of them was once Yugoslavia.
@loladallas-il6pyАй бұрын
Wow, it’s been almost 35 years ago, how old are you now? 70?
@leonie46523 ай бұрын
You did so well! 🙌🏻
@Tsapper812 ай бұрын
You did very very well for someone who doesn't live in Europe. Southern Europe is hard for Europeans as well, because there are so many small countries packed next to each other
@DaskeleboiYt-qu2kr21 күн бұрын
Not gonna lie,you did a lot better than I thought you would
@uweschmidt87723 ай бұрын
I think you did pretty well! At last you got most of the bigger countries fast. I always struggle too with all these "new" eastern countries, even when I've been there years ago. It changed so much since the fall of the eastern block.
@luzia10903 ай бұрын
I'm european and I feel like I would have done worse than you haha. You surely were faster in recognizing the ones you knew than I was Also I'd lose horribly doing a similar quiz of america
@Herkittyandhislady0407200512 күн бұрын
You clicking Moldova so many times kinda makes me happy for my country to get this spotlight lol
@ellisonsimon3 ай бұрын
To be honest, that was really quite good!
@thorstenkoethe3 ай бұрын
for a non-european you did a very good job!
@Facetterdk21 күн бұрын
He did far better than most Europeans would.
@hrafnatyr97943 ай бұрын
🇸🇪 Time for some bragging 🤓😎😉 100% in 3:36 Explanation: When Reader's Digest established themselves in Sweden in the early 1960s, they missed (or maybe betting on the chance that people didn’t know) that negative contractual binding is illegal here, my father though, was fully aware of it. So when they sent a copy of RD's Big World Atlas without his ordering (he subscribed to their monthly booklets for a while) he simply kept the book without paying a dime. It was really a lavish masterpiece with loads and loads of maps, photos, facts, articles and tables and it was definitely my favorite book for many years during my childhood (born 1957).
@88marome3 ай бұрын
Hm Swede here too and I git 92% in 2:57. I’m just going to blame it on that I was playing it on my phone and accidentally clicked on the wrong thing several times because I had to drag and zoom the screen… and my thumbs were too big!😞
@arekzawistowski26093 ай бұрын
can u say how this quiz website is called? edit: I found it 1:08 with 100% and honestly i am quite sad it is not under minute
@shizam14003 ай бұрын
Thought you did rather well. I struggle with pin-pointing Eastern European countries, including ones I ve been to!
@jansevcik8719 күн бұрын
60% is pretty cool :) Your European knowledge is waaaaaaay better than my American knowlege :) Greetings from CZ :)
@red.aries14443 ай бұрын
It's ok, most Europeans, including myself, would struggle to find all the states of the USA. Some hints to remember European countries you failed this time: Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia till they split up in 1992. You have reacted to a KZbinr from the Czech Republic and you may have reacted to some videos about WW II and the cold war, so you may have heard of Czechoslovakia. If you can find Czechia, you will find Slovakia as they share borders. It's some kind of the same with Hungary, although further back in time. It was a big part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, till they break up after WW I. If you find Austria, you should find Hungary too. Monaco? Have you ever heard of the American Actress Grace Kelly? She was very famous in the fifties. She married the Prince and Ruler of Monaco in 1956. It was like a Hollywood story came true.
@davidjr49033 ай бұрын
Comparing countries to states 🤡 🤡 🤡
@yannicklucas18363 ай бұрын
It's a country test. Europeans will struggle with US states the same way americans will struggle with french "régions" or "départements", or switzerland "cantons"... if they can find those countries on the map in the first place...
@cookielady76623 ай бұрын
@@davidjr4903 fair comparison. The US is as big as Europe. Each state has its own capital and is like a country. Besides, those clowns are creepy. lol.
@davidjr49033 ай бұрын
a usa state has no autonomy, its just a state, countries are countries, if u still dont get the difference go to school@@cookielady7662
@mikefraser45133 ай бұрын
Most Brits would have problems with pointing out UK counties. (Let alone their capitals).
@Freddwith2D3 ай бұрын
As a French guy, I can tell you I couldn't make a 60% accuracy in placing US states on a map. So there's really no shame. Good job.
@Bartkonig3 ай бұрын
I don't think that a US State has the same weight ass a whole country...😅
@Freddwith2D3 ай бұрын
@@Bartkonig for sure, but it was just geographically speaking :)
@szamitogep2153 ай бұрын
i did 52 % :))
@Freddwith2D3 ай бұрын
@@szamitogep215 to Europe countries or to US states ? 😄
@Freddwith2D3 ай бұрын
@@Bartkonig Hey I did 70% on the US States ! not as bad as I thought :p
@rosewoods30072 ай бұрын
i would struggle with south-eastern Europe as well, many places in Balkans have changed borders and names since i was at school
@lotemylife3006Ай бұрын
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 😻)
@axoram23 күн бұрын
🙌
@lotemylife300622 күн бұрын
@@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.. 😅😅)
@AhsimNreiziev3 ай бұрын
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.
@rk64833 ай бұрын
How don't ppl know basic geography?
@solar0wind3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@AhsimNreiziev3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@mikado29843 ай бұрын
That is embarrassing.
@mikado29843 ай бұрын
That is embarrassing.
@Spiderboydk3 ай бұрын
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. :-)
@Hyxtrem3 ай бұрын
Honeslty you did better than I expected and WAY BETTER than your fellow countrymens, so congrats on this one. You did great.
@Floyd137783 ай бұрын
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.
@Gerrit-Chr3 ай бұрын
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
@MrBritishComedy3 ай бұрын
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).