I&#x27;m from Germany. Without cheating I wouldn&#x27;t even be able to guess where Oregon is.<p>But that&#x27;s still not quite fair, I think. You&#x27;re kinda expected to know the neighboring countries in Europe, but you have lots of &quot;internal&quot; state as well. The overhead seems (arguably I&#x27;m biased) bigger. Yeah, knowing where Denmark, Italy or Norway is might be expected, but then we&#x27;re comparing &quot;them&quot; (external state, never went there, cannot speak their language) with &quot;us&quot; (Germany has states as well. Would you be able to name them?).<p>In the end I agree with you: I think the premise is flawed.