As a child, I had the idea that Japan was a country the shape of what I now know to be France, and it was between China and India.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to think japan and china were the same country— i like star wars
- I used to think China and Japan where the same.— Lunarmoon
- I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.— Luiz Alfonso
- I used to think Hungary and Turkey were the same country... I have no idea where that came from...— Skylla
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
- I thought that Indian Summer was like the weather in India.Anon