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WATCH: Americans try to find Ireland on a map, and it doesn't go well

Back to geography class for you. And you. And you.

COULD YOU NAME all of the American states?

No? Well, maybe you feel a smidgen of sympathy for these Americans who were asked to place Ireland on a map, and in many cases failed.

Oh dear.

We couldn’t help but notice though that Buzzfeed did label Ireland and the UK as the ‘British Isles’, which may have led to some confusion…

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Read: Ireland looked pretty damn good from space yesterday>

Read: Complex politics or simple geography: Is Ireland part of the British Isles?>

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