I have no idea why, but I used to believe that London was whole different country than Great Britain and existed in somewhere near Paris.

Lissie

I'm a military kid, and when I was little, about 6 years old, my dad was going on tour to Yugoslavia. I didn't know where that was, so I asked him, and he said it was north of some other country. I didn't understand "north", or "south" etc. So I looked up into the sky, and asked, "How do you get up there? Is there a road that goes up there?" thinking you had to drive to the sky. He didn't see me looking into the sky, so he said, "yeah, there's a road that goes up there" as if it was a stupid question, lol. Thankfully, I do understand geography now.

Anon

I used to think that Liverpool was so called because the town centre had a big swimming pool full of liver in it. My parents were so amused by this that they didn't correct me for years, wheeling me out at family get-togethers to tell everyone my theory.

Anon

I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!

Richard M

I lived on the ocean and thought that if I looked really hard that I could indeed see China across the water...no matter what everyone else told me. I also though that the bamboo washed up on the beach had come all the way from China. Cause that's where pandas were and therefor all the bamboo in the world was there too. I think that the whole the earth is round lesson was lost on me until I was quite a bit older.

Anon

i used to believe that places that were North were up in the sky. So I never understood how we drove from Texas to Indiana without going into the sky!

Suzi

when my mother uised to refer to 'all n'sundry' I thought that Sundry was a country and that we were talking about all in Sundry. I was quite worried to hear about 'all in Sundry' knowing our business

Kerray

I used to think that every street in my town ran all the way across the world. When I went to other towns I saw other Maple Streets and State Streets, so I figured they just sort of kept going. I always used to wonder if the Japanese had "Maple St." printed on their signs or if it was translated into Japanese.

Lynn Hinderks

When I was about 5 years, I was fond of a movie about a city called BOMBAY, the movie was a black & white print.

Next year, I went to the place with my uncle, and upon looking outside from train I said, "Uncle, this city is not BOMBAY, I know, BOMBAY is black & white, I have seen it in a movie."

I used to believe BOMBAY is famous because its blank & white.

Viral Patel

My hometown is called Nuneaton. Up until about eight years old I always thought is was 'The Neaton'. I only realised otherwise when I entered a colouring competition and had to submit my address, asking my parents how to spell 'The Neaton'.

Stuart

When I was young I thought Canada was a city. I used to ask my mother if we could visit Canada, even though I was living in it.

Lori

I believed for a long time that the world was the shape of Great Britain and that all the other places I'd heard about were somewhere in Great Britain. I blame the BBC weather map for this :o)

Claire UK

I took a little boy to Luray Caverns, Virginia, an underground cave system. It was much cooler in the caverns than it was outside, the little boy was surprised that it wasn't hotter since we were closer to the earth's molten hot core underground.

Kristen

i used to believe that 'overseas' was a country

anon

When I was little I heard on lots of T.V. shows that parents went backpacking through Europe before college. So I thought that Europe was this barren land with no countries or anything. Just mountains and forests and people hiked for thousands of miles. I always wondered why someone would want to do that. Now I wonder where I used to think all those European countries were...

Obviously not European...

When I was 6 or 7, my sister showed me a map of the world made of cardboard. When she pointed to Egypt, and she said, "That's Egypt. That's where all the mummies are." For the next few weeks I believed that mummies in Egypt would rise and come and kill everyone.

M

I used to think we lived in America.

Amy, Britain

When i was younger and lived in england my
dad told me that people flew around different parts of america, for some reason i imagined that everyone in america had a odd colored house and had a ariplane in there drive away.

Anonymous

I used to belived that Washington, D.C. was located in Washington state, the same way that New York City is located in New York state.

Maeghan Jade

I used to think that the South African city, Cape town was actually called Crap Town. I though that this was a bit insulting for the people living there ^_^

Sugarpuff Angel