Geographic Ignorance Quotes

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

Most Americans don’t know the difference between Romania and Somalia

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there.