Originally Posted by CyberSEO

First of all, most of Russians will easily name even more than 15 states - just believe me, I'm a Russian and I know my people. The second thing is that those Americans were asked about a fake country. Not about the Russian republics like Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Ingushetia, Mordovia etc, which would be similar to your states.



That's a very wrong statement. The Americans are very localized (a that's true), but not Russians and most of Europeans too. I don't know what's going on in the modern schools, but when I was a kid, we have learned the world's geography for years.

As far as I know, the NYC people are considered as the brightest ones in the States, so...