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As President Donald Trump trotted around the globe for his meetings with Queen Elizabeth, NATO and Russian President Vladimir Putin, host Jimmy Kimmel wondered if Americans could find these countries on a map.
"We had a test," said Kimmel. "The test is very simple, we went out on the street and we asked the people who passed to name a country on a map, that's it."
The results were not impressive.
Attempt 1: South Africa
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The first participant circled what she thought was South Africa. It was actually Bolivia on the continent of South America.
Attempt 2: The "Land of Asia"
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The second participant of Kimmel pointed to Russia. In fact, he thought it was the "country of Asia".
Attempt 3: Africa
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While this participant technically indicated the correct area, she remembered that Africa is a continent. When asked if she could name a country in Africa, she replied: "No."
Attempt 4: Greenland
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The fourth participant was pretty much sure he was pointing to Greenland or Iceland, to realize that he was pointing to Alaska.
Attempt 5: America
YouTube / Jimmy Kimmel Live [19659006] Participant # 1 was back to redeem herself.The host asked if she could point to America.
"I'd say it's a big one," did she she says while surrounding Russia, "but I'm probably wrong."
She added Austraila as Europe and South America as Africa, and she failed to catalog a country in South America
The "sad part", according to the participant, was that she graduated from high school and college.
Attempt 6: Honduras
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The sixth participant was quite confident that Honduras was somewhere in South America, adding, "Should not I learn this at school?"
Attempt 7: Finally [19659026] YouTube / Jimmy Kimmel Live
Finally, a young child has managed to label many countries in South America.
While most participants struggled, geographic illiteracy is not a rare phenomenon in the United States. According to a New York Times poll, only 36% of Americans could find North Korea on a map.
Although the young man saved the day during the Kimmel test, only 17% of young Americans could find Afghanistan on a map in 2002, according to National Geographic. Less than 15% could point to Iraq or Israel.
Kimmel, of course, found that the test was a hilarious example of US geographical illiteracy, adding, "Well, if you did not believe that children are our future before, now you do it. "
