Despite the fact that the United States has spent over a decade in Afghanistan and Iraq, a 2006 National Geographic study reveals that a depressing majority of Americans from the ages 18 to 24 were unable to find either country on a map. And as the following maps suggest, our knowledge of European geography is equally dismal.
![Europe Map No Idea](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-no-idea.jpg)
![Europe Map Poland](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-poland.jpg)
![Europe Map Your Mom](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-your-mom.jpg)
![Europe Map Goth](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-goth.jpg)
![Europe Map Cold](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-cold.jpg)
![Europe Map IDK](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-idk.jpg)
![Europe Map Africa](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-africa.jpg)
![Europe Map Mini Poland](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-mini-poland.jpg)
![Europe Map What Is That](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-what-is-that.jpg)
![Europe Map Arrows](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-arrows.jpg)
![Europe Map Fake](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-fake.jpg)
![Europe Map Fur Coats](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-fur-coats.jpg)
![Europe Map Motherland](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-motherland.jpg)
![Europe Map War](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-war.jpg)
![Europe Map Russia](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-cold-russia.jpg)
![Europe Map Cyprus](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-cyprus.jpg)
![Europe Map Kamchatka](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-kamchatka.jpg)
![Europe Map Second Poland](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-second-poland.jpg)
![Europe Map Sorry Somewhere](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-sorry-somewhere.jpg)
![Europe Map Affordable Vacations](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-affordable-vacations.jpg)
![Europe Map Farms](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-farms.jpg)
![Europe Map Happy](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-happy.jpg)
![Europe Map Help](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-help.jpg)
![Europe Map Shame](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-shame.jpg)
![Europe Map Borat](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-borat.jpg)
![Europe Map College](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-college.jpg)
![Europe Map Kazakstan](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-kazakstan.jpg)
![Europe Map Purple](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-purple.jpg)
![Europe Map Question](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-question.jpg)
![Europe Map Sorry](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-sorry.jpg)
![Europe Map Ussr](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/europe-map-ussr.jpg)