When very young, I believed that Great Britain must be the largest country in the world, because it was actually made up of fours different countries.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age
- I used to believe that the moon was another country and that all countries were little planets.Anon
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- when i was young i thought that a giant made the world slowly spin!— ~kassie~
- I honestly used to believe that £100 was the largest sum of money you could ever own— Shellene
- I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.— Bernardo Fernandez