Do you know the counties of the UK? (feddit.uk)

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I'm not sure if I'm the weird one for having no idea where most counties are, or only a rough idea. Do most people know where most of the counties are? Do you think you could reliably label most of a map of the uk with the correct counties?

I looked online for a quiz and found this: https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3146?gamemode=pinhard

I got 62% but I think that mostly overrepresents my knowledge because towards the end a lot of them were gimmies just by the process of elimination. I was on the game mode "pin (easy)" - I think "pin (hard)" is much better as a knowledge test so I'd recommend that mode.

Would you say Brits are expected to know where counties are? Like if someone said they live in Sussex, or Berkshire, or Tyne and Wear, and I said idk where that is, would you think that's dumb or reasonable?

edit: this video is very good imo, discusses the counties and the history of them, but concludes that they don't really matter any more and are essentially a historic artifact. They say most people can't name or locate most of the counties, which makes me feel better lol.

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[-] bottleofchips 3 points 2 days ago

I reckon I could give a general area for 90% of them, but I’d probably get less than 30% accurately. And that’s England - I’m terrible with Wales / Scotland and haven’t really the foggiest with NI. I don’t think many people would be able to get above your score really and almost nobody would be able to recite them all from memory. Incidentally travle has a British mode that is great for this!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

I got them all, but to be fair I've been playing Travle for a while now specifically to improve my county knowledge (and I still mess up on Scotland)

[-] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

oh yeah I haven't any hope with wales/scotland/NI. Even just trying the english ones made me feel quite stupid lol. And like I say, I think you'd score higher than you think just by cheesing it a bit with some guesswork and some process of elimination. But I'd say my county knowledge is absolutely terrible - I only really know a few confidently from places I've lived or visited relatives in, or places which are the capital city :)