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    Wo die Briten denken, dass die Chagos-Inseln liegen.


    Wo die Briten denken, dass die Chagos-Inseln liegen.

    Von corbynista2029

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    35 Comments

    1. hughsheehy on

      Was it the Diary of Adrian Mole that had his dad thinking that the Falklands were somewhere off Scotland?

    2. Relocationstation1 on

      Honestly this is a little better than I would have thought it would be.

    3. ZelWinters1981 on

      Middle of the Indian Ocean, south of India.

      But shoutout to the guy who put the pin *outside* of the map, in orbit.

    4. [deleted] on

      To be fair, if you asked “Where is Diego Garcia?” the answer might be different.

    5. YacineBoussoufa on

      Where is x Island? Points somewhere where there isn’t an island.

    6. Mister_Barman on

      This actually isn’t too bad. Vast majority are in the area where the Chagos Islands are. Many votes in the Caribbean where we have multiple overseas territories which is a reasonable guess, and in the South China Sea, which makes sense because this China is central to the debate about the islands.

      The idea that “you cant oppose your country needlessly giving up territory that could harm national security and your position in the world unless you can pinpoint it on a map” is such a stupid take

    7. ThatNiceLifeguard on

      This is respectable. Most were close and many of the guesses that weren’t are clustered in spots that make logical sense.

    9. Nivaris on

      I don’t know why anyone would think that the Chagos Islands were located in the middle of a continent. Particularly Australia, there’s a rather big cluster there and I really can’t imagine why. Do they think there’s a huge lake in the outback containing the Chagos Islands?

    12. GuyfromKK on

      Interestingly, there is a cluster of highly concentrated answers around the Philippines. Why is that?

    15. LordLordie on

      To be honest I would’ve also had no clue whatsoever and would’ve put the dot somewhere around Indonesia. So they did a pretty good job there.

    16. dhkendall on

      Points off for not labelling it “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego Garcia”?

    17. AnitaIvanaMartini on

      I like to vacation on the Chagos islands that are in Chicago. So close to home!

    18. omnipotentmonkey on

      the clustering near Greece is at the very least a reasonable attempt at deduction,

    19. Jjez95 on

      I’m honestly pleasantly surprised. Thought it would be much worse than this.

    20. AgileBlackberry4636 on

      I like that a sizable percentage of people looked for island on the land mass

    21. Truth-or-Peace on

      So, to summarize the main clusters, here are people’s guesses in order from most popular to least popular:

      1. The Chagos Islands are in the Indian Ocean. (Well done.)
      2. The Chagos Islands are near Mauritius. (*Very* reasonable guess if one’s been reading the news.)
      3. The Chagos Islands are in the Philippines. (Oops.)
      4. The Chagos Islands are near Guantánamo Bay. (Wrong, but interestingly wrong.)
      5. The Chagos Islands are in Indonesia. (Not a bad guess if one’s never heard of them.)
      6. The Chagos Islands are in the Australian Outback. (A bad guess *even* if one’s never heard of them.)

    22. gattomeow on

      British people tend to be much more geographically aware than most nationalities since the UK is a maritime country with lots of trade routes and a very active Royal Geographical Society.

      I bet that the average person in bigger countries like China, India, the USA and Russia is more cartographically challenged

    23. Rufus14811 on

      I genuinely have no clue how maps like these happen

      Surely most of these people are joking or misunderstood it right?? No way someone heard “island” and pointed to Mongolia or something unironically

    24. gattomeow on

      I’m guessing areas with land and seas were not labelled? Logically why would someone think an island was deep inland, unless in the middle of a lake.

    25. absoluteally on

      I want to know who the people are who thought these islands were in the middle of a continent. Was there some dodgy question phrasing that they used that they left off the final result of was there map to small for accurate clicks or did they ask in a way that lots of people took the piss.

    26. Amockdfw89 on

      I consider myself very good with map. I can probably point out 95% of the countries on earth

      But I never was able to master tiny islands

    27. Le_Atheist_Fedora on

      I consider myself a huge geography nerd and extremely knowledgeable about world geography and I’ve never heard of the Chagos Islands.

    28. thedisablednonce on

      I mean I love geography and visiting new counties but I didn’t really know where they was, I assumed it was between africa and Australia somewhere but I wouldn’t be shocked if you told me it was in the Caribbean

    29. Beginning_Source1509 on

      I actually find this preety unintresting

      like this says, “a lot of people dont know where an island that is really far away from them is”

      edit: I have just realised a bunch of people put something called island in the middel of continents

    30. milosh_rush on

      Who the fck pointed continents?! They are literally names Chagos ISLANDS

    32. BezezeBlaze on

      Someone really just pointed at literal middle of god damn deserts

    33. Slow_Animator_7241 on

      It’s the fact so many Britons think islands are inland, I the word should tell you they will be in the sea 🤣

    34. Comfortable-Road7201 on

      I bet this is taken from one of those paid survey sites where people get paid like 10p per question they answer. If so, most of these guesses and quick mouse clicks to get onto the next question.

    35. ThatYewTree on

      It’s not that bad really. Some people assuming it’s Caribbean (which considering the UK has five overseas territories there and all photos on BBC have been of idyllic tropical beaches isn’t that bad a guess).

      The only really stupid answers here are the inland dots. So Britain owns an archipelago of tropical islands in… Siberia?

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