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I live near a beach and when I was little we'd go down to the beach almost every day. There's an island nearby, and when I was little I'd look out over the water and think that island was England.

When I visited my cousins in California I saw another island off the beach and desided it was Japan. On the way back I reasoned it couldn't be Japan, Japan's too far away. It must have been Hawaii.

Banana Hanna

when my dad used to play this online game i watched him play and when you got to a certain point of the eath there was just black and you fell off i was scared to go outside cause i thought if i walked to far i might fall off the eath

Emily

Not mine but my ex-husband's.
He was always talking aboutliving in 'old mexico' for awhile when he was in his teens. I always thought he said that to differentiate it from the state new mexico. Imagine my suprise (and disbelief) when I found out that my 40 YEAR OLD husband said 'old' mexico because he thought that it was a state, like north and south dakota, east and west virginia there was old and new mexico not just the country of mexico!

Anna

I used to think Germany had a lot of germs...thats why they built a wall...to stop all the germs from comin' in.

GERMany

Until recently I thought that Scotland was seperate from England. I am 27

Anon

I always thought that Hawaii and Alaska were next to each other, just a little bit below, Texas because on Maps they always put them next to each other! I couldn't figure out how two states so close to each other could have such drastically different climates!

Carlee

I actually believed that if I dug far enough down I would reach China.

Sirrus Templar

Not my wrong belief, but at least two Exchange Students we had were shocked seeing Australians had world maps without the Americas at the centre, which was the way they had always seen maps in the US, and obviously thought that was the proper way. One at least got the joke when I gave him one with Australia at the top of the world and Greenland at the bottom. Why not? - there is no real "up" or "down" in space.

Swanny

I belived tx was a country

Anon

As a kid, I learned of the city of Birmingham (the one in Alabama), and thought it was named for someone overcooking ham (I thought it was Burningham).

Ellen

When I was little, I used to believe that the clouds in the sky was the North Pole, and that was where Santa Claus lived. I also believed that the nearby industrial area was Sydney (I live in Melbourne). I was a bit disorientated when my parents announced we were actually going to Sydney!

Anon

In my geography class, we went to the library to research our country projects. My friend and I did not have the same country, but we sat next to each other anyway. My country was Australia. We were talking about it and she mentioned how our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger,came from their. I had to explain to her that Austria is in Europe and Australia was on the opposite side of the Earth. The funny part is that we are 9th graders and it was the highest level geography class.

Mar

When I was young, I lived in a place with lots of mountains. I used to think that those mountains were different countries, like Australia and Canada.

Anon

When I was maybe 4 or 5 the family would be watching the Jackie Gleason show on tv. I remember him saying during the intro "Here we are in Beauuutiful Miami" I kept thinking, well where is his beautiful MAMMY he keeps talking about??

judd

I got confused as a kid about Neverland. I knew Peter Pan came from there, and therefore it didnt exist, but then I was shown a spot-the-mistake map, with Netherlands on it, and I was convinced they'd just made a typo and that was the mistake ...

Gemz

I used to think there were two Canadas and two Russias because on the map it shows Canada and Russia twice because they couldn't fit it all in one place on the map.

Anon

i used to beleive that the city "amseterdam" in denmark i think, was really called "hamsterdam" and it was infested with hamsters, running all over the streets, and in peoples houses and stuff. When my dad came back from a bussness trip from there i was really mad at him for a week, because he hadnt brought me back a hamster, it wasnt untill he asked me what was wrong, that he told me i was wrong lol.

viki

well this is kind of embarassing. i live in texas and i have heard that that everythings bigger in texas and texas woman have big hair (i used alot of hair spray at age four)
i thought women in texas,especially cow girls,were sopposed to have big hair.well one time i was at the grocery store with my mom. we were geting our film back and i was siting on the counter while my mom was talking to the lady.i asked the lady if she was from texas and when she said yes i got mad. she didn't have big hair.well....i stood up on the counter yelled "but you dont have BIG hair!!! you have to!!!" an i smaked the lady on the head. my mom turned bright red yanked me of of the counter an left the store with out our film and groceries

amanda