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[Darvi]

Realized after the fact that I forgot Andorra, but that's okay. Everyone else does too.

I didn't!

[fivex]

Spoiler: Africa (click to show/hide)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Spoiler: I can list a fair number of US states, but I have not the faintest Idea where they are (click to show/hide)

Washington, DC is much farther south. The state of Washington is on the opposite coast.

I solemnly swear that I didn't look at any other maps or reference materials when doing these. I've just always been a geography buff.

Spoiler: AMURRICA. (click to show/hide)

Here in America, we call them North and South Carolina. (And we don't hyphenate Mississippi.))

Spoiler: Soviet Canuckistan. (click to show/hide)

1. Greenland's fjords, aka the only parts the Norse ever went to, are actually very much green. And Iceland does have a good amount of ice.
2. You marked the California region as "Future South Canada". I don't think they'd take it.

Easy peasy, since I've been there and traveled through all of it but WA and Tasmania.

Also, its territories are small enough in number and geographic enough in name that someone unaware of Australia's existence could get half of them right. Most people are going to know about Tasmania, so that only leaves a few more to mess up.

So there's been an image of a map of the US with states labelled by an Australian with very limited geographical knowledge doing the rounds on the 'Net recently...

I'd like to see that. Do you have a link or something?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That's horrible. There are like five states labeled Virginia and not one of them is actually Virginia or West Virginia.
Also, they weren't drunk, they were following rivers. I suppose the Aussie didn't see many of those, but they're important in the Midwest. Especially a couple centuries ago.
...And "Oz"?

Spoiler: The USA (click to show/hide)

The irony here is that I know the US less than Europe.

Good. Although you left out the major industries and such of a lot of states. On a more serious note, Puerto Rico is part of the US (a commonwealth if I recall), and if 50 wasn't such a nice round number it would probably be a state. Maybe when we get nine more, Puerto Rico.

Spoiler: Europa, hooray for EU3 and EU4! (click to show/hide)

If I got something wrong here then... I will do something.

EDIT: Forgot Andorra. God darn it. I nearly forgot Monaco too.

Iceland also has volcanoes.

[Culise]

Here in America, we call them North and South Carolina. (And we don't hyphenate Mississippi.))

Unless, maybe, you're actually from North Carolina.  And last I checked, we do hyphenate single words that get split across multiple lines. 

That's horrible. There are like five states labeled Virginia and not one of them is actually Virginia or West Virginia.
Also, they weren't drunk, they were following rivers. I suppose the Aussie didn't see many of those, but they're important in the Midwest. Especially a couple centuries ago.
...And "Oz"?

Oz = Aus. = Australia

Good. Although you left out the major industries and such of a lot of states. On a more serious note, Puerto Rico is part of the US (a commonwealth if I recall), and if 50 wasn't such a nice round number it would probably be a state. Maybe when we get nine more, Puerto Rico.

Yes, but it's still a little odd to put it on the map.  I mean, you don't exactly see the CNMI or unincorporated territories on these maps...though that's probably because if they were put in as insets (like Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) without any indications of relative geographic location, very few would be able to tell them apart. 

[Darvi]

That's horrible. There are like five states labeled Virginia and not one of them is actually Virginia or West Virginia.
Also, they weren't drunk, they were following rivers. I suppose the Aussie didn't see many of those, but they're important in the Midwest. Especially a couple centuries ago.

Go tell him yourself.

Unless, maybe, you're actually from North Carolina.  And last I checked, we do hyphenate single words that get split across multiple lines. 

Yep, RK's from there. (Maybe GWG is saying that Superior Carolinians aren't American though)

[Owlbread]

You're all Americo-Centric cowards for not attempting my grand British Isles challenge.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Spoiler: You were saying? (click to show/hide)

I accept payment in souls, government offices, and bitcoins.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Here in America, we call them North and South Carolina. (And we don't hyphenate Mississippi.))

Unless, maybe, you're actually from North Carolina.  And last I checked, we do hyphenate single words that get split across multiple lines. 

I'll take your word for it. I'm not surprised it didn't catch on in South Carolina.
That was a joke. And usually Mississippi isn't splir over three lines.

...And "Oz"?

Oz = Aus. = Australia

Ah.

On a more serious note, Puerto Rico is part of the US (a commonwealth if I recall), and if 50 wasn't such a nice round number it would probably be a state. Maybe when we get nine more, Puerto Rico.

Yes, but it's still a little odd to put it on the map.  I mean, you don't exactly see the CNMI or unincorporated territories on these maps...though that's probably because if they were put in as insets (like Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) without any indications of relative geographic location, very few would be able to tell them apart.
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Agreed. Why is Puerto Rico so special?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Because it is almost certainly going to be a state soon, and so maps have started incorporating it. If American Samoa or Guam made aims for statehood they'd likely start showing up too.

[Owlbread]

It's interesting that you would place the minimum latitude for true Scottishness at the exact point that people start speaking with strange accents and express a separate identity, often a very norse one.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Because it is almost certainly going to be a state soon, and so maps have started incorporating it. If American Samoa or Guam made aims for statehood they'd likely start showing up too.

First I've heard of that.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's interesting that you would place the minimum latitude for true Scottishness at the exact point that people start speaking with strange accents and express a separate identity, often a very norse one.

I recalled you marked a good deal of Scotland as also being English, so I decided to take the safe bet.

Because it is almost certainly going to be a state soon, and so maps have started incorporating it. If American Samoa or Guam made aims for statehood they'd likely start showing up too.

First I've heard of that.

Officially, they're already supposed to be becoming a state following the 2012 referendum, but being that we haven't done this in several decades just about everybody involved are dragging their feet.

[Culise]

It's interesting that you would place the minimum latitude for true Scottishness at the exact point that people start speaking with strange accents and express a separate identity, often a very norse one.

I recalled you marked a good deal of Scotland as also being English, so I decided to take the safe bet.

Because it is almost certainly going to be a state soon, and so maps have started incorporating it. If American Samoa or Guam made aims for statehood they'd likely start showing up too.

First I've heard of that.

Officially, they're already supposed to be becoming a state following the 2012 referendum, but being that we haven't done this in several decades just about everybody involved are dragging their feet.

Unofficially, there were all sorts of holes in the 2012 referendum (namely questions regarding the split of one question into two and a certain ambiguity in the second question that actually asked, which made the half of the population that didn't want to change Puerto Rico's status think that the second question was asking, if the status must be changed, what it should be changed to), so absolutely nothing has happened.  Plus, of course, the whole "non-binding" part of that referendum.  ^_^

[Cerol Lenslens]

So there's been an image of a map of the US with states labelled by an Australian with very limited geographical knowledge doing the rounds on the 'Net recently...

I'd like to see that. Do you have a link or something?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That's horrible. There are like five states labeled Virginia and not one of them is actually Virginia or West Virginia.
Also, they weren't drunk, they were following rivers. I suppose the Aussie didn't see many of those, but they're important in the Midwest. Especially a couple centuries ago.
...And "Oz"?

Still better than my U.S.-educated-but-never-been-there knowledge of Australia:

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[GreatWyrmGold]

Man eating coral reef? That's absurd!

Oh, wait, it's hyphenated. And Australian.