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Ask your European friend if they can name all 138 states
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Honestly, as a European I dare say most Europeans couldn’t name all 50 states, and definitely not place them on a map.
I’m confident I could correctly place Texas, Florida, probably California and maybe Kentucky if the borders were drawn.
Naming more than one or two state capitals? Forget it!
Edit: quite sure about Alaska and Hawaii too, but I forgot those (see!).
Fellow European, seconding this. I can roughly point out Georgia and New York instead of Kentucky and Michigan is easy because of the coast line. I've been to the east coast, I couldn't point out the state I was in to save my live.
All these straight borders are confusing AF anyway.