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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago

If you want to reach people, you need to name the countries. You can't just expect people to know 200 flags of the world.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 50 points 1 month ago

Especially when one of them is Poland, which is incredibly easy to confuse with a couple of other flags. In order from the lowest percentage to the highest:

  • 1st row: Japan, North Korea, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Egypt

  • 2nd row: Jordan, Armenia, Comoros, Poland, South Korea

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

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[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Other than Indonesia, what can you confuse polish flag with? It's just red and white stripe, too simple to get confused, isn't it?

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

Monaco is the other one! It's basically identical to Indonesia, just a different aspect ratio and, in most depictions, a slightly darker red.

[-] lemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Oh, you're right. But it doesn't come up a lot.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I mean, it's got a map, too...

I can ID Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Egypt, Tunisia, and Poland on there without even going to check if I'm right. (I also correctly guessed Bangladesh and Jordan but had to check to be sure, and incorrectly guessed Georgia instead of Armenia.)

Can't tell what the 10^th^ country is, though, as I don't see any others marked in red.

[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I looked it up: you are missing Comoros, apparently, which is country consisting of a few islands off the east coast of Africa, above Madagascar, near Mayotte.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Well I could identify Japan, and the map doesn't help me.

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's flat. Check mate globers! /s.

Sorry I watch way too many funny flat earth videos on YouTube. The stuff they come up to explain the world is.....well I'm not sure I could come up with it while on acid. It's pretty nuts.

[-] ManfredMumpitz@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

I think its a good skill to know the world map. Not naming the countries is a good way of knowing wich you are missing

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But unfair, it's always changing! Then again, so are lots of things. Looking at you, Pluto. You'll always be a planet in my heart

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If it was just the flags maybe, the fact that it comes accompanied by a map with highlighted countries means the onus should be on them to, you know, learn something.

[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no colour coding between the flags and highlighted countries so you can't learn from this alone. You have to look elsewhere. Yet there are millions of things to look up, so I need a reason to make flags a priority over the other things I look up every day, and I don't see it. I enjoy the Geography Now channel but even that channel mostly dropped discussing the flags.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Comoros isn't highlighted (it's too small)

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