A childhood belief about places

As a child I had VHS tape with many cartoons. One of them was about H.Barbera's characters (Yogi Bear etc.) as they had to do something in some India-like town (lot of funny-dome palaces and all that other stuff), and before they arrived there, they had said sth like "We have to fly to New Jersey". I thought New Jersey was that place in the India they visited later, and because of in Polish many nouns in genitive have "a" on the end changed into "i" or "y" (i.e. to Ruda -> do Rudy), for many years I believed they were talking about city in India called Nyujersia. I realised they were talking about USA late in elementary school, as I noticed that every time that US state N-E-W J-E-R-S-E-Y was spelled just as that mysterious place in India!