American Takes NO OUTLINES European Map Quiz...

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[@mimmo4762]

I think you have a really good grasp of Europe. Just don't tell anyone you mistook Serbia for Bosnia: that could start a war...

[@fro5tboy]

He mistook it for Croatia maybe, he said it’s on the coast.. yikes

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Brate! ^^ to je bila Hrvatska, da?

[@_APV_]

Latvians also wouldn't receive well the news of now using Cyrillic :D

[@SoHanged]

How to stop the starting of WW3, don't tell anyone that you confuse Bosnia with Serbia.

[@mimmo4762]

​​​@@Kivas_FajoI think it was pretty much on the border (but the cursor may have done the trick), and same reasoning anyways, right? Same war, same history, same problems

[@zephh_sk]

"...I was one centimeter away!" One of us.

[@lad4830]

He's adapting to higher standarts !

[@Metheglyn]

A tip: The 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons above the map lets you browse the countries. So you could, for example have waited till you had Italy _and_ France before doing Monaco.

[@Shapeshifterxyz]

But where is the fun in that?

[@Metheglyn]

@@Shapeshifterxyz Between Austria and Slovakia. But it's spelled Zevonensatt

[@walkir2662]

"Italy, can't mess this up" ...unless you click on Vatican city. ;) ...yeah, this one would be hard for me, too.

[@olenilsen4660]

Or indeed San Marino :) Those tiny ones should be marked with dots - Andorra, Monaco, Malta, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg included. Impossible to get them right with a full-size map like that. Edit: actually, looking a second time, Malta is actually visible.

[@mimmo4762]

​@@olenilsen4660 it's not that hard if you know their general locations: in that test, you can actually skip forward until you mark their bordering countries. And then just click on the white areas

[@johnloony68]

I kept shouting at the screen “Just below Serbia!” and “the one on the coast!” and “you’re running out of time!” but you didn’t hear me

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@johnloony68 Should've screamed louder

[@bastiennietveld7128]

😂😂😂😂 Me to !

[@omasagtstirb]

I am from Germany and I think for an European the second Quiz is kinda easy. For example, if you set up a new phone, often there are most of the european languages to chose for you including the names of the countries in there own language. Another one, if you buy something with a manual, often the manual is in many, if not all the european languages and usually first thing is the name of country in there own language. By the way, you did well in the first quiz, without outlines its kinda hard:P

[@atnfn]

I'm from Europe, the 2nd quiz didn't seem easy to me. But him not knowing Finland and Sweden kinda annoyed me. I wouldn't have known a single of the cyrillic countries. Maybe I've seen Russia at some point.

[@TheFeldhamster]

​@@atnfnok, if you don't know the other alphabets, then the second quiz is a bit harder - but as a European who has been to Bulgaria and who has followed the war in Ukraine closely using also original sources I got pretty adept at reading Cyrillic by now. And after having been on holiday in Greece a few times (and remembering math class) you kinda know those as well.

[@CristianNazare]

@@atnfn I wouldn't have gotten all of them correctly either, but i did correctly guess Cyprus/Greece and Bulgaria even without knowing the Greek and Cyrillic alphabet but 86% seems a good average.

[@lexywackess]

As a european you just see other languages more often. You'll sometimes see euro parliament stuff, or Come accross more of other languages (+ more travels in foreign places). He did good tho, you can tell he's genuinely interested and clever 🤷

[@alkemi5522]

You're not doing bad at all! I think most people do these the school way - start with the questions you know the answer to and then go back to those you don't know. Especially with the language quizz, it would eliminate those you recognise from the possible options and make it much easier for you to guess the remaining.

[@jokevv1]

The European names were easy for me. It helps that I used to collect stamps and know how to read the greek and cyrillic alphabets. For future quizes likes these you might want to use the Next button. That way you can get the easy ones out of the way fast and there will be fewer options left for the hard ones.

[@petebeatminister]

It also helps that only Greece uses greek letters... :)

[@blueeyedbaer]

@@petebeatminister Cyprus uses them too.

[@dzonikg]

It would be more Interesthing that country names are in random europe langue .Like for Germany we in Serbia say "Nemacka"

[@walkir2662]

@@dzonikg Might as well make teh test in Klingon, then, considering how low the chances are peopel know that random language.

[@dzonikg]

@@walkir2662 Well its called like that in most east and central europe ,so its kind off Interesthing to see which languages are similar

[@laziojohnny79]

Serbia. Known for it's beautiful Adriatic coastline.

[@fro5tboy]

😂

[@yvelmonroe4047]

😂

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Don't troll 😂​@@yvelmonroe4047

[@adisca2k]

I mean, it used to have one. But back then it was called Serbia and Montenegro.

[@laziojohnny79]

@no one cares about facts

[@Ratafak85]

Wow, you did really well! Even those you missed a little, you were quite close. Kuddos! :)

[@simtekgroup3080]

I live a few kms away from Monaco. I still got that wrong. Basically impossible to get it right on this quiz! And it's actually closer to Italy than this map puts it, just like Vatican City is shown way bigger than actually is. Monaco and Liechtenstein are so hard to get precisely right if you don't have the others around already highlighted. But you did very well tbh

[@Phiyedough]

Yes, it would be better if it missed out tiny places.

[@Dasyurid]

@@Phiyedough You can just skip them and come back to them later after you've got one or more neighbours identified. Monaco was one of the ones I skipped first time knowing that France would come up before Monaco came round again. When I saw Monaco the second time I didn't even zoom in, I knew with France already green it was safe to spam-click the right area until I got Monaco. Took about four clicks.

[@interstellar.overdrive]

use the Next button

[@simtekgroup3080]

@ actually true, dumb moment from me not to figure it out earlier 😂

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Every European country's name in its native language(s): Albania: Shqipëria Andorra: Andorra Austria: Österreich Azerbaijan: Azərbaycan (Azerbaijan) Belarus: Беларусь (Belarus') Belgium: Belgique/België/Belgien Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosna i Hercegovina Bulgaria: България (Bŭlgarija) Croatia: Hrvatska Cyprus: Κύπρος (Kýpros) Czechia/Czech Republic: Česko/Česká republika Denmark: Danmark Estonia: Eesti Finland: Suomi/Finland France: France Germany: Deutschland Greece: Ελλάδα (Elláda)/Ελλάς (Ellás) Hungary: Magyarország Iceland: Ísland Ireland: Ireland/Éire Italy: Italia Latvia: Latvija Liechtenstein: Liechtenstein Lithuania: Lietuva Luxembourg: Lëtzebuerg Malta: Malta Moldova: Moldova Monaco: Monaco Montenegro: Црна Гора (Crna Gora) Netherlands: Nederland North Macedonia: Република Северна Македониј (Republika Severna Makedonija) Norway: Norge/Noreg Poland: Polska Portugal: Portugal Romania: România Russia: Россия (Rossiya) San Marino: San Marino Serbia: Србија (Srbija) Slovakia: Slovensko Slovenia: Slovenija Spain: España/Espanya/Espainia Sweden: Sverige Switzerland: Suisse/die Schweiz/Svizzera/Svizra Turkey: Türkiye United Kingdom: United Kingdom/Teyrnas Unedig/An Rywvaneth Unys/An Rìoghachd Aonaichte/Unitit Kinrick Ukraine: Україна (Ukrajina) Vatican City: Città del Vaticano

[@Itwasalwaysme_Noone]

Hello from Greece: Ελλάδα/ Hellas: Ελλάς

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone Whoops! I don't know how that one slipped my mind. Sorry!

[@GJS2183]

​​@@senor-achopijo3841 Nice job! Especially the Celtic names of the UK! But forgetting the country of our origin as a civilized society! We love you Greece! 🇦🇹❤🤍💙🇬🇷

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@ Yeah, my bad. I fixed it though.

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@ One question: what's the difference between Ελλάδα and Ελλάς? Do you use one or the other depending on the context?

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

The alphabet came to Russia from Bulgaria. It is easy to associate this if someone remembers where Byzantium was and which countries profess Byzantine Catholicism have a writing in some form related to the Cyrulic alphabet (apart from Greece and its ancient colonies). Countries associated with Roman Catholicism have a Romanesque alphabet

[@Miri.Mirinda]

I thought to was invented by Cyril And Methodius in Great Moravia (Now czech republic) 🤔

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

@@Miri.Mirinda The Seven Apostles of Bulgaria - a group of Catholic and Orthodox saints equal to the Apostles, including Cyril and Methodius, and their disciples: Gorazd, Clement, Naum, Sav, and Angelarius. All of them influenced the conversion of the Bulgarian Khan Boris I Michael. An interesting fact is that before the Cyrulic alphabet there was another alphabet called Glagolitic.

[@kbotev]

@@Miri.Mirinda The Glagolitic alphabet was created by them. The Cyrilic was created by their disciples in Bulgaria.

[@johnplays9654]

​​@@Miri.Mirinda It was created by their disciples in Bulgaria

[@Miri.Mirinda]

@smiechuwarte-qt8pn OH! Ok. I am from Czechia and of course we learnt about Glagolilic and i knew it has something to do with cyrilic but I mix it up 😅 thank you guys 😊

[@msumungo]

No worries dude, I always mix Sweden and Norway everytime. :DDD Greetings from Finland! :DDD

[@olenilsen4660]

You need to go back to school ;) Greetings from Norway!

[@LolTollhurst]

Funny, I always mix up Sweden and Finland too Greetings from Sweden :P

[@HenrikJansson78]

Even when you are sober? Oh. I forgot. You are a finn... ;)

[@1Anime4you]

No you do not!

[@33d672]

You clearly need more schooling… smartest finn 😂

[@Kent.]

That was the worst pronunciation of Sverige (Sweden) I have ever heard🤣If you have said Sverige in that way to me i would not understand that you were talking about my home country!!

[@Mosern1977]

Same with Americans trying to pronounce "Norge" - going with "Norjsh" as their best guess.

[@Holzhirsch]

swurdge

[@littlemudlost]

you mean " WERE talking about my home country " - but hey - way to make fun of somebody who is educating themselves

[@Kent.]

@littlemudlost I'm not making fun of anyone, i only think it was funny the way he said it, it's not even close to be the right pronunciation and it sounded hilarious.

[@littlemudlost]

@@Kent. being*

[@Roberternst72]

9:25 try doing that one on a tablet with fingers… No chance to click on Monaco, Vatican or San Marino, bad odds for Andorra and Liechtenstein and Luxembourg - and I personally even missed Belgium and Moldova due to big fingerpoints and imho slightly unprecise borders…

[@oliverpeters7485]

Liechtenstein is close to Switzerland. You may know the tools manufacturer Hilti. They are from Liechtenstein.

[@DonHrvato]

Cool well I didnt know Hilti is from Liechtenstein... learned something bew

[@lofthousehh]

@@oliverpeters7485 Heute wieder was gelernt…

[@Alias_Anybody]

That one was unironically good, especially considering the microstate situation was genuinely badly implemented. The states of former Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia can be quite confusing, but I feel like as soon as you have a central state to orientate yourself it gets a lot easier. Edit: Second one was less impressive, lol. I guess you do recognize a ton more of those if you are European. Suomi for Finland or Hellas for Greece are well known. Cyprus makes more sense if you know about Kyprus -> Copper, Österreich is quite obvious a German word so the options are limited, Sverige sounds pretty much like the English word? For Hungary you'd have to know that the name of the ethnicity is "Magyars".

[@minecraftprovie]

I also didn’t get Finnland and Hungary. Finnland I definitely heard of once but Hungary I had no idea. And I get easy 100% on Europe map clicking countries in under 3:30min (didn’t try to speedrun)

[@walkir2662]

Greece is easy to recognize as long as you recognize Greek letters.

[@Alias_Anybody]

@@walkir2662 Same for Cyprus though, so that's only 50/50.

[@jon-h]

​​@@walkir2662Similarly with Bulgaria and Cyrillic, its just Bulgaria written in cyrillic. But honestly a bit inconsistent that they were not asking Russia, Ukraine etc. in Cyrillic then.

[@migueljoserivera9030]

​@@jon-h It was EU members. Only Bulgaria uses cyrillic in the EU.

[@laziojohnny79]

Easy reminder for the Scandanavian countries; Norway --> North --> extends to the north the most

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Uuuuaah! To click on Croatia, when they ask for Serbia is a sacrilege! ;-)

[@manjorno]

Lmao that pronunciation of Sverige was something else. Super endearing tho. And don't worry, it's a really hard language when it comes to getting the pronunciations right, unless you're a native speaker. Even people who have spoken it for a decade + and are fully fluent can still sound off to us.

[@panainpublic]

fun video, but i did have to scream at the screen a couple times, esp with the timer

[@Pakeee2]

You did very well, i couldnt do the same with the states.

[@ClemensKindermann]

Sorry, but that's a poor comparison. There's a difference between localising countries and localising single states within these countries. I'm European (Austrian) but I cannot name let alone pinpoint all voivodeships of Poland for instance.

[@alexnohandle]

Best way to learn! I'm not American, never lived there, but I can draw you a map of all American states from memory. Just from playing this thing. If you want a tougher challenge, look for no-outlines quizzes where you have to find borders (for example, the line that separates Germany from Switzerland).

[@_Xorag]

hearing 1 cm from American, we are proud for you

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@_Xorag One of us, one of us, ONE OF US

[@to_loww]

"This is definitely Slovakia". Oh boy, if he only knew how ambiguous 'slovensko' is. (it can mean Slovenian in Slovenian or Slovakia in Slovak)

[@Lightkie]

4:54 "Ooh.. how do I click on Monaco?" That's the neat part, you don't! 😂 Seriously, that challenge should let you choose the order to guess.

[@IEnzymelF]

Got 94% on my second try after I learned that I could skip the small ones and do the big ones first. Pretty hard to get the exact locations without any outlines. You really didn't bad. I think I would do same or worse pointing US states without outline. Edit: I had 32% 🤣

[@daliilars3350]

Honestly this was pretty good. You have better knowledge about Europe and I'm a Dane.

[@nickjeffery536]

With this quiz, the easiest way to get a decent score is to start with the countries you know for sure - using the "Next" button to skip ones you're not sure of, until you've filled in the ones you know. This way you have some outlines to work from... it especially helps with the micronations like Andorra, Liechtenstein etc...

[@_APV_]

You went hardmode on that first map, I think the intended way was to press the "next" button to first get the outlines of big countries. Also, while 63% is an average, it's the average of the people who play geography quizzes online (quite far from an average man), so don't feel bad:)

[@jespermattsson816]

O.o I didn't realize! Sooo much easier doing it that way. Also a lot less dependent on randomness.

[@selfDemanDeD]

Oh, so that was the idea... 😅

[@selfDemanDeD]

I managed 74% of the first one (with 5+ minutes left, I just didn't get the others). Full disclosure: I did it after watching you, so that helped me get the bearings regarding smaller countries (not the dots). And it somehow counted Lithuania as wrong, even though I clicked correctly (maybe too close to the border, I don't know). I agree with you that at least the dots should have had some leeway. The result also depends on the order of the countries, which is random. Because it's easier to point to other countries correctly when you already see the big ones. Regarding the second quiz: this one I did in under 1 minute with 100% accuracy, but I need to mention two things here. First, me knowing latin and cyrillic alphabets (and knowing how the greek alphabet looks like; btw. Greece is natively called "Ellada", maybe you've heard that) helped in some cases. Second, I suppose the education in Europe is also more Europe-centric (suprise!). But you should've learned something about Ancient Greece in school, no? 😁

[@claasengelbart2268]

You are better in this type of quiz like other US Citizens that i knew... (that's a typically german compliment with a little bit sense of humour) 🤣 Thank you for this awesome Video, Ian. 👍🏻

[@Searover749]

Kuddos ! You're way above the average US geo level !

[@dejanstanojevic6484]

Brother, it's high time you packed up and came to visit European countries with your family. That's the best way to learn about all these countries. I'm sure you'd enjoy it and make many more beautiful and educational videos. To enjoy different foods and drive different European car brands that you talked about on your shows, which are not available in America. Please, Ian, pack your bags and come to Europe.😊🛫

[@MartinaValla]

This made me realize how much exposure we get to other languages cause I could get every single one of the "countries by their language", we get to read the original name of countries and languages on packages, tv programs, sport events etc... Some things you know from school, for example that Magyars were the inhabitants of hungary... basic greek letters we understand as well... crazy.

[@azminek7154]

What makes finding Cyprus and Greece easy is math and maybe a little bit of history. Since they both use Greek letters the one whit two lambdas must be Hellas, that is Greece and the other with the pi and rho is Cyprus. The blind map is much more difficult with all the small Balkan countries and micro-nations. It's too easy to miss even if you know where the country is. Btw with Switzerland I thought you'd just accidentally hit Liechtenstein :D

[@MrReese]

You did quite well. Some hints I can give: Norway is easily remembered by all the fjords on the outer coastline, Liechtenstein is a German name and it's located between Austria and Switzerland, both of which speak German (at least in parts for Switzerland). Montenegro and Kosovo are adjacent to Serbia because both of them faught to be independent from Serbia. Regarding the Baltics, Estonia is the most northern of the Baltic states and its language is very very close to Finnish, which is just across the bay.

[@quinob]

Found myself cheering out loud when you got some of the difficult ones right. That was so much fun and you did amazing!

[@Dasyurid]

I tried the Europe with no outlines and aced it in just over 3 minutes by skipping past the difficult little ones like Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco and a couple of the Balkans that I was less sure about and coming back to them when I'd got the surrounding countries. Like for example, finding Andorra without borders is almost pure luck, but if you've already identified France and Spain then Andorra becomes easy. I'm going to try it with US states now. [snip] 82% on US states in 5 minutes. I got Vermont and New Hampshire the wrong way round, which I always do, hit Rhode Island while aiming for Connecticut, and had a couple of other near misses. Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada I missed because I got cocky, ignored my own advice, and didn't skip them to come back after I'd got a neighbouring state. Even so, I'm pleased with 82% given I've only been to 5 US states and one of those was only for a connecting flight.

[@MugiwaraRuffy]

I just took this quiz myself, before I actually started your video. What can I say? 57%. HOWEVER... I easily had, 5 to 6 occasions, where I just clicked mere pixels away from where I was supposed to. Those were frustrating. Wish the picture had been a little bit bigger. EDIT: Number 1 for you with Slovakia. I really feel you. EDIT2: With Belgium and Latvia: Yepp, I feel you. Welcome to the "Close but no Cigar" club. ^^

[@edthejester]

Man you got a lot right. Especially countries that were part of former Yugoslavia and USSR are hard for me because they didn't exist yet when I went to.school and had to learn the map. Respect!

[@karl-erlendmikalsen5159]

For the no.outline ones, like this, I have a heavy use of the 'next' button. Especially for things like Monaco, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Liechtenstein etc - these small countries off the coast I want the outlines of neighbouring countries to guide my pointer. If you'd waited with Monaco until you had clicked France then you would've gotten it no problems.

[@e1123581321345589144]

"Serbia. I think it's on this coast..." another war starts in the Balkans

[@Divig]

That second quiz, I actually knew all of them. Dang. First time my job would help in a quiz

[@boglarkabalazs7129]

Oh, and a bit help for Hungary - Magyarország. We call ourselves magyar (singular form), and the ország means country. So it is "Hungarian country". Why "magyar"? Seven tribes invaded the Carpathian basin around 895. The biggest, most influential which gave the leaders was called megyer, or magyar. One of the explanations why others call us Hungarians is coming from the "on-ogurs" - "ten arrows" which is the seven Hungarian and the three Bulgarian tribes living together earlier in Asia. Actually no one knows for sure why you guys call us Hungarians :D

[@oldgerontius2943]

I read in a book that it comes from “Hunni”, the generic word at the time for any steppe culture. So it seems to be a combination of Europeans being dismissive of “barbarian outsiders” and a bit of a legacy from Attila. Also, your country is beautiful and your wine is outstanding ❤

[@boglarkabalazs7129]

@@oldgerontius2943 thank you! I appreciate your kind words ♥ I don't know about Hunni though. There is an old tale about Hunor and Magor, two brothers, who chased the Miracle Stag who lead them to their future wives and country, which kind of connected us to the Huns, but in reality there is no historical evidence for that. We were also called "turks", but apart from living next to them for a while, borrowing some words from them (and much later occupied by them), we are no Turkish either. We are a curious beast, originally coming from the Western part of the Ural mountain, speaking a finno-ugric language, ended up in the Carpathian basin. :)

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

Cyprus means Copper. The celts in south-west Brittain had a lot of tin. You need Copper and tin to make Brons/Bronce. So a lot of trade between the middle sea and Brittain.

[@christopheripoll2580]

And with its end, followed the bronze age collapse.

[@carolineskipper6976]

You were so close on a couple of those countries- not fair! The national name one was hard! I know some of those that you missed, but others were a total blank!

[@pikus4392]

In ending phase of preliminary schools or was it early high schoold in Poland it was sometimes done during geography test when teacher invited to maindesk for knowledge test - with only difference the map was black. You had to point countries, cities, rivers, mountains, uplands, lowlands etc. I remember learning it for Europe part and it wasn't easy.

[@germankitty]

Well done! I'm German, and would have had to make wild guesses at which countries belonged to former Yugoslavia -- or the ones in eastern central Europe! (I would've aced the second map, though -- because I can read both the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, and have been to Bulgaria, Cyprus and Greece. Unfair advantage, I know.) 😎

[@boglarkabalazs7129]

Oh, the blind map challenge! We did this in school in Hungary (high school and primary). We had to put the countries in Europe, Asia, America (North, Middle and South), and the capitals, and we also got grades for that. Oh, those dreaded geography classes! :D I wish we had learnt less lexical data and more critical thinking.

[@Anduci78]

For Norway, Sweden Finland think of NSF and you have the correct order. 😅 You pronounced ország pretty good in Magyarország. Greetings from Magyarország/Hungary. 😊

[@jimmyincredible3141]

Reminds me of 5th or 6th grade geography...Teacher handed out blank papers, told us to draw Europe with countries, capitals, 10 rivers and the city where our school was and graded that at the end... On the one hand laziest teacher ever to not even print something, on the other hand really makes you realize where the limits of your knowledge are...

[@dob0]

You did really well on the map with the hard ones, but also messed up a few easy ones 😂 The names are definitely easier for a European because we are exposed more often to the languages. Also, the quiz makers pissed off about 7 million people because Belgium has 3 official languages, not only French!

[@BifrostMR]

One of my best holiday memories were from a beach resort on the Serbian coast

[@senor-achopijo3841]

@@BifrostMR Same, I then visited the famous Dutch mountains and the gorgeous Spanish fjords. Best holiday ever. 👍

[@tigersharkzh]

You can turn off the timer so you have unlimited time and then skip countries inland to get the costal ones that are easier to pinpoint. Like you get Germany then click through until you get Austria then Czechia is easy. My daughter did each of these continents untill she could get all countries. She was about 12 years old at the time!

[@michaelfink64]

Hi Ian, the key to the man one is the next button. You should skip to the big ones around the coast and then fill in the blanks. It's not just Europeans that know the names of the European countries in their own language. I am Aussie and got 100%.

[@sparayurji]

italian here, i tried the second one and got 100% win 1.26 remaining, but as there is a 'skip' option it gets a little bit easier, so you clear quickly the easy ones first and you have less options for the less intuitives/known ("hint" that can be applied to the first one too, maybe even with more gain as it is visual)

[@alexoneprject]

you did good mate, that no outlines quiz it's insane even for an european .... as for the original names, for me as a well traveled european was a walk in the park (totally would have done 100%) .... i was rooting for you .. when it was "Ελλάδα" (Elada), I was "COME ON MATE, SAY GREECE! don;t you see the greek letters?" :D :D

[@KjellEson]

13:50 Sweden (Sweden) is a name from the Viking Age. In the Viking Age there were four dominant kingdoms. Danner, Götar, Nordmen, and Svear. In what would become Sverige there was Svea-rike and Göta-rike. The kingdom that had the most power was Svea Rike. According to legend, the Svear crushed the Götarna and then the kingdom "Svitjod" was formed. If you translate Svitjod, it becomes Svea Rike. Later Svearike is referred to as Sverige. Sverige therefore means Svea Rike. Mark = Ground the Scandinavian languages. Danner plus mark = Danmark.

[@SilverionX]

The way I remember the Baltic countries is a little memory trick. I always say Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. That's how they countries are on the map from north to south. Also Sverige comes from Svea Rike or realm of the Svea which was one of the dominant tribes in Sweden in ancient times. They lived in an area that surrounds modern day Stockholm. As a funny aside, the other large realm was Göta Rike or in English realm of the Goths, which is why Sweden's second largest city is called Gothenburg or fortress of the Goths. Relations with the Goths that sacked Rome unclear but possible.

[@Merecir]

Unclear = all of a sudden, the Goths appeared in northern Poland, at the same time as many villages were abandoned in Götaland, just across the Baltic Sea.

[@darylounet59]

French here. GG. It s difficult, a lot of europeans contries become independant after the fall of ex URSS in 1989. I'm not sure to doing better with the state s name in US.😂

[@yaonyaon9460]

You did well. Have this котка in an outlined box as a reward.

[@anderslindstrom3110]

As a swede, I'm a little disappointed 😉

[@maxime-me]

You did pretty well on the first one. The hitboxes aren't precise and the microstates make it hard. You "only" got 53%, but if you hadn't run out of time you'd probably be closer to the average. And keep in mind that this type of website is mostly used by geography nerds... So getting an average score is pretty good. You definitely did better than the majority of Americans, and even a good amount of Europeans, I'd reckon ;) One more tip, for both of those quizzes you had the option to skip countries (and then come back to them later), that might have made it easier.

[@jonntischnabel]

Yes theory did a good video on Liechtenstein, well worth a watch. I went there when i was 16 (93), on my way to a school ski holiday in Austria, i want to go back one day. 😊

[@saad-t7k]

😂😂😂 I feel so sorry for you, Ian! You are so close! (and better then me with a blind map of the US) 😅

[@ClemensKindermann]

Sorry, but that's a poor comparison. There's a difference between localising countries and localising single states within these countries. I'm European (Austrian) but I cannot name let alone pinpoint all voivodeships of Poland for instance.

[@catbitmaster8216]

It would help to know some details of the countries to know where they are. For example, Serbia claims Kosovo as part of them, and they are full of ethnic Albanians, so you could make a guess that Kosovo borders both Serbia and Albania. History and language helps too, with knowledge of Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth helping to know that Lithuania borders Poland, while knowing that Estonian is very closely related to Finnish helps in knowing that they are very close, so by process of elimination, the last Baltic country, Latvia, is in between the 2.

[@alvaroazofragarcia7832]

It would be awesome if you react to some of the military anthems of Europe, for example: “Himno de los Tercios” from Spanish Empire

[@fairgreen42]

Hi from Austria! That was pretty good. And Liechtenstein is a tiny principality right between Austria and Switzerland.

[@JS-1983]

I think you did great on that map test 👍 I'm European and those former Yugoslavian countries are hard for me too.

[@Talkshowhorse_Echna]

Pro Tip for the nordic countires. Norway has an N for Northern and Sweden S for Southern.

[@AbeIJnst]

Nice. Finland F for Farthest east, Denmark D for Down below?

[@tomscorpion6288]

@@AbeIJnst And Iceland I for I cannot see that far.

[@HenrikJansson78]

So Sweden is where Denmark is? ;)

[@didzisuzulins2092]

Tip for English speakers to memorize order of Scandinavian trio - Norway, Sweden, Finland, just remember letters "NSF" and skip "Work" from NSFW. Norway is left most, Sweden in the middle and Finland on the right. 🙂 I wish I could give a tip for Baltic trio, but I don't have one, despite the fact I'm from there. It just have to be memorized - Estonia is top (with islands), Latvia middle (that curve around the bay) and Lithuania bottom (without significant coastline shapes on map).🙂

[@Phiyedough]

You did a lot better than I would on US states.

[@U030]

Easy way of remembering wich is wich with norway and sweden is knowing norway has fjorden (beautiful long high bays). You have noticed their beauty before in trucking vids. They are easily visible on norwegian maps and even on this map!

[@U030]

I believe they are formed by the north pole ice

[@dawidbaranowski7623]

I was indeed laughing

[@tonys1636]

I did quite badly as well, as an Englishman that was at school during the Soviet era most of the now Eastern Europe and Baltic countries were known by their former Soviet names, many now having new ones as have split into smaller countries.

[@maciekszymanski8340]

One of my schoolmates had a bad marks on geography. The teacher wanted him promoted to the next grade and tried to help him. She hanged huge map of Africa with big bold sign above saying "AFRICA" and asked him - - Show me where Africa is on this map. He stood five minutes with blank and confused face starring thoughtlessly at the map. Then he tried to look behind the map... Our teatcher lost her temper, grabbed with one hand his collar and circling his right hand over the continent shouting loudly - - This is Africa! This is Africa! Repeat!!! When he finally whispered "this is Africa", she sighed and said - - You may sit down. You passed...

[@senor-achopijo3841]

Jesus

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Is that the real level of education in your place??!?!?!?

[@oldgerontius2943]

Hungary is a very difficult one unless you know a little about the history of the country. Hungarians (like many in Europe) are descendants from nomadic steppe people. Hungarians specifically are descended from the Magyars, who settled/conquered Pannonia from the Bulgarians under the leadership of the great Álmos Arpad. His son King (and saint) Steven is the one who converted the burgeoning nation to Catholicism (forever putting them at odds with the Orthodox Bulgaria). The rest of Europe knows them as Hungarians rather than Magyars because at the time Europeans called all Near Eastern steppe nomads “Hunni”, a semi-derogatory generalisation based on the most infamous steppe cultures of recent memory, the Huns. Budapest itself is also incredibly close the Attila’s former capital, further strengthening the “Hunni” association. For further and more in depth enjoyment of this kind of history please visit the nations in question. Also do what I did and read “Empires of the Steppes” by Kenneth Harl. *edit a poorly constructed sentence.

[@boglarkabalazs7129]

Just a little bit of corrections. We are not descended from the Magyars, we are Magyars. :) Álmos was Árpád's father, who never reached the Carpathian basin (he was probably sacrificed). It was all around 895, while Szent István (or St Steven) was crowned in 1000, more than 100 years later. He was a descendant but not a son. You are right, it was him to converted the Hungarians to Catholicism.

[@oldgerontius2943]

@@boglarkabalazs7129 Thank you for the corrections, I clearly need to re-read my history and visit Hungary again!

[@boglarkabalazs7129]

@@oldgerontius2943 that's no problem! I really appreciate your interest in my country! :)

[@dvorapa]

NORway is the NORTHest one, Sweden starts with S, so it is the Southern one on the peninsula and Finland's got really good Vodkas, so it is the one bordering Russia the most! (yes, I had the same issue with nordics at the school as well :D )

[@bastiennietveld7128]

Excellent 👍 Pity you didn't see the timer 'cause the you would have known the missing countries ! As for the Balkans....we don't even try to learn them; they change names and borders every decade ! 😂

[@backin80s]

First part you did really well, it's deffinetely hard without the borders, especially the small ones. the second part was difficult for you becouse you only speak english, for a european person we have some understanding how some of european languages sound, so eaven if we dont know how they call themselves, we can make a good guess.

[@emilkovachev6570]

Well done You might be interested in Comparison of European Languages ​​from the LangMap channel There are definitely some mistakes in their videos but overall it's well done.

[@bbinc.6918]

This is very well done for someone who isn’t from this part of the world

[@jamiefraser0]

A little tip to remember Norway. It's the country where you find the way to the northpole.

[@tangfors]

No one talks about Lichtenstine because it is tiny and has less than 40 thousand inhabitants. Few have even been there so most know less about Lichtenstine than what is written on wikipedia. You were also really good. As you said, you were damn close on some. Then if you had seen the time at the beginning, you would have put even more, got over 63%

[@igormaricic7421]

wrong map of Serbia

[@Bioshyn]

So funny, Italy, can't mess this up, almost clicks on Vatican

[@mimmo4762]

Not his fault: Vatican city is not remotely that big 😂

[@mortenvejlgaard286]

You did really well.

[@Audulf-of-Frisia]

You did VERY well!

[@ChristianLink]

pretty good! I missed a lot too and I'm from Europe! Pinning the states of US would also be difficult for me.

[@33d672]

I was really surprised you didn’t know ”Sverige” for Sweden. You have made so many videos about our country.

[@DMSG1981]

@15:11 I can't wait to see you doing a quiz on body parts next

[@Metheglyn]

Dane here. I usually gets 100% (or close). But then, I took the test over and over again, until I had them all down, and then I kept training. Assuming I am not the only one doing something like that, it's not odd that the average is quite high. (I think I started somewhat higher than 53%, but not even close to 87%)

[@ondrejvasak1054]

That one with names of EU countries in their own languages was understandably pretty hard for you, but for someone who lives in Europe it was pretty easy so I think that average 87% tracks. I think there was only 1 or 2 I wasn't sure about. Suomi is Finland, that one is pretty well known, I think I knew this one in elementary school, because they always had it written on their hockey jerseys and my dad would expalin what it meant. Europeans know that Hungarians are the Magyars, in fact I believe English is the odd one out, no idea where "Hungary" came from. You can recognize Greek script because it does not look like anything else and only few countries that use cyrilic are in EU, so you can mostly guess by their lenght. Éire is Ireland, heard that one before.

[@nicoladc89]

Scandinavian countries are easy to remember Norway is the Northest, Sweden is the Southest, Finland borders Russia. Baltic countries are easy too, in alphabetical order from North to South: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Balcanic countries are a little bit harder. North Macedonia is easy, just remember that Macedonia is a Greek region. Serbia is landlocked. Albania is at a shot of rifle from Southern Italy. Croatia is recognizable from the Istrian peninsula. Slovenia borders Italy. What remains is Montenegro (borders with sea) and Kosovo (landlocked).

[@e1123581321345589144]

13:35 as an European, I got 100% with 1 minute 57 left on the clock when you travel a lot, you kind of get use to reading stuff in other languages 🤷🏻‍♂ The one that almost got me was Croatia, but you can skip it to the end in this this style of quiz.

[@JoWellArt]

Congratulations, that was fun 🙂 You did amazing !

[@morbvsclz]

Did hat same Quiz before you started it and I am pretty confident in my knowledge of European countries. But it's very dependendant on luck regarding the which countries come up first. I got San Marino and Vatican City before Italy and Andorra and Monaco before France. My first one was Luxemburg. None of these are reasonable to get right, when you have not done the big neighbor first and can see which exact pixels you have to click. I got 81% at 4:32, but the real strategy is to skip anything small first and do big countries and coastlines first and once you have those, just click pixel on the other side of the border for the small ones. 100% in 3rd try. But only with skipping small countries first.

[@christianc9894]

Very good for americain !