Saturday, August 1, 2026

Geography illiteracy rears its ugly head @StateDept


Not even close!

Screengrab and headline:  The New Republic, 7/30/2026
Africa map:  Wikipedia (arrows added)

Sophie Jager reports:
The State Department is having some trouble identifying states. 
At the annual International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this week, the U.S. State Department unveiled a map of the African continent with every single country mislabeled. Nigeria drifted into the Sahara Desert, landlocked and lost; Mozambique was relocated to the eastern Horn of Africa; and the Ivory Coast, somehow, found itself nowhere near a coast. The map also included a country with no name, while Cameroon, dutifully included in the list of countries, got no real estate on the map at all.

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