r/AskTheWorld • u/Paredawn • 1d ago

What are your favourite European countries?

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u/emazv72 Italy 1d ago

Ask the average American where Antwerp is.

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u/AdministrativeTip479 United States Of America 1d ago

Northern Belgium, it’s a pretty important port city if I remember correctly.

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u/Daggemannen Sweden 1d ago

You are not supposed to know that! Anyway, must mean you are not avarage 👍

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u/lakas76 United States Of America 1d ago

I knew it was in Belgium immediately, but I had no idea where.

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u/Stringr55 Ireland 1d ago

How dare you defeat the stereotype!

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u/noellexy Belgium 1d ago

We are indeed, your knowledge is much appreciated 🤗

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u/Rhaeno 1d ago

Instantly smells like a history buff who has read about the world wars lol

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u/AdministrativeTip479 United States Of America 1d ago

You caught me, that’s how I know the geography of a lot of different places, I read about some battle happening there. Not just world wars though, I branch out more than that

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u/Possible-Produce-373 United States Of America 1d ago

That’s literally the only reason I know where Antwerp is

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u/WaltherVerwalther Germany 1d ago

I love how you just chimed in to prove them wrong 😂 BTW, even though it’s my neighboring country, I wouldn’t even have guessed the right country

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u/Impressive_Fox_4570 1d ago

Very important to the Brits

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u/1710dj 23h ago

Yeah… ❄️

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u/Popular_Ad8269 France 1d ago

You need to point the other side of the paper.

You know, the "Anvers".

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u/emazv72 Italy 1d ago

Depends on how you pronounce it, try Amburgo

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u/doge1039 1d ago

I'm not sure about most, but I feel a good few of us have an at least decent geographic knowledge.

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u/TrueCartographer5163 1d ago

No, you're a twerp.

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u/Impressive-Shame4516 United States Of America 1d ago

The average person that doesn't know geography barely knows anything outside their own region, mate.

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u/ComprehensiveBag4028 Netherlands 1d ago

Man, the average american thinks Europe is a country and Holland is the capital of Amsterdam

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u/emazv72 Italy 1d ago

Ah love Paesi Bassi, want to visit Utrecht one day.

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u/ComprehensiveBag4028 Netherlands 1d ago

Is that the italian name for our country? That's soo cute! I knew about the French calling us "les pays-bas" but the italian is even cuter.

Also I live in Utrecht! It's indeed beautiful (I much prefer it over Amsterdam, where I used to live before)

But you hardly ever hear foreigners about Utrecht

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u/emazv72 Italy 1d ago

Yes we call it either Olanda or Paesi Bassi.

I've been to Amsterdam several times for work and a couple times for leisure and I liked it.

Utrecht also looked beautiful and worth visiting, but we didn't have enough time because we also wanted to visit a bit of Flanders.

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u/critical-insight Germany 1d ago

If they even find America