When I was little I thought there were only two countries in the world: the US and the USSR. I knew the world was round, so I pictured the Soviet Union to the north (it was cold there) and the US kind of in the middle of the globe. Everything else was just water.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I used to belive, that USSR is the best country in the World...:(— Iryna
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- When my dad was young,he used to believe that the lines on a globe were on the world itself.— LINE MACHINES!
- I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern