to be fair, we don’t refer to parts of england as counties, as often as cities or regions. like most of the time we just say down south, up north, near birmingham etc
Also there are multiple definitions of counties. In my mind Yorkshire is a county but it's not a ceremonial county, which is what Buzzfeed seem to have used. London isn't a county for example. Is the Isle of Wight a county or a Unitary Council? Are Merseyside and Tyne and Wear or are they Metropolitan counties? Counties also change over time leading to more confusion. People in London still refer to places as being in other counties, for example Dagenham is often incorrectly placed in Essex when, like much of London, that hasn't been true since the Local Government Act of 1965
Also north south means different things to different people. Seeing as I went to uni in Stoke and they thought they were Northeners but it took them less time to get to London than it did for me to get back to northumberland. To me north is Cumbria, Yorkshire northumberland Newcastle anything below that is Midlands and South.
@@chloehesse9138 Lol yes, we can all refer to cultural norms but before you know it folks can feel "left out" and it simmers over centuries. Being a Scot I've always referred to say Cumbria as the north of England, as opposed to just the north. The only reason the BBC give more detailed weather info for Devon and Cornwall is because more southerners have holidays homes there. You don't get the same amount of detail for Aberdeenshire, or the Scottish Highlands :)
@@jen_sen8508 Also for the fact that there's only 50 states all with differing cultures and stuff. Like yeah Mississippi and Alabama are a lot similar but ones known for catfish and the other for college football
its because London to most people in the UK isn't really that important, even though it's our capital a majority of people don't even care about London in general because it's just such a weird place to live. there is a saying that if you're from London you love it, if you're not you hate it, and i can confirm that going to London is the most stressful thing I've ever done, and i have travelled from China to South Korea in 2017 during the THAAD missle crisis and that was fucking stressful xD. (also london involes, greater london, the city of london, the town of london and London, so it gets confusing haha).
@@independentresearch2432 'london to most people in the uk isnt really that important' bold claim lmao. i moved to the uk from canada, when i was 7 and lived in manchester then cardiff and a spell in bristol until i was 15, then dad got a job in london and we've been here ever since, and can honestly say i only started actually liking england/uk after living in london. if youre well travelled and have good expectations that garner from seeing many different things implemented in different areas of the world, then london is best suited to your needs, and the services and in general way the rest of the country is run is abysmal tbh, but london is the centralised place of the country and gets most of the nations money so maybe thats why. me and my brother wanted to go back to vancouver growing up, but ever since we settled in london that dream gone out the window, and my brother is now happily married in upminster. everyone that i know that has visited london along with other cities, both as british and non-british has loved london the most, so your saying that ive not heard before doesnt really ring true. the only negative is too many people, so housing is a lot, but my job pays well cause london pays well, so its suited to that, and also it does get busy, but a lot, like me, work in the city but live in the outskirts so not too busy during your social time, and the inner city is just as busy as any major city, i dont really expect the beacon of western europe and a city that carries the rest of the nation financially to be that quiet
@@azih8626 im sorry but my source is you know... being born and raised in the UK for i dont know about 20 years of my life (apart from the other two i have lived in both China and Korea recently) and talking from a generic british person *outside* of london... i think i know what i am speaking about, i never said people haven't heard of it i am just saying we dont really pay too much attention to its location on a map, obviously london is fairly important in the grand scheme of things BUT we also have other shit going on in the UK. and i still stand by the statement that MOST british people HATE going into london. You will find that most foreign nationals prefer london because they can find things that remind them of home because london is so diverse but people who are british have our own britishness attached to our own towns, i don't relate to londoners to be honest, and ive been all over the UK, london is by far the only place i dont really have a connection with other than school trips to museums and so on. so i stand by my original statement and have even spoken to my friend from different areas in the UK about the subject and 99% of them said London just absolutley sucks because its expensive and is incredibly inconvenient compared to our home towns.
@@azih8626 I wouldn't say it's a bold claim at all. People born in the UK aren't overly fussed about London as a lot of the city is a bit of a shithole. Yeah it's nice for a visit annually during the holidays, but the thought of living or settling down there to many would be literal hell lol. You probably have a different view coming internationally and sounding as though you're quite well travelled. Majority of people in the UK will be born and raised in one area, maybe move to a different part of the UK for uni, and then make their way back to their hometown or stay close to where they attended uni. Ones that don't go to uni will hardly give leaving their hometown a second thought either.
@@wazzasaurus respectfully, ive been to a lot of northern cities and been to some of the most run down areas in south, if london is a shithole i would implore you to tell me what the other cities ive been to that look 3rd world are. london is by the far the best liveable city in the uk, and the only ones who disagree are the ones who have an agenda against london and its superiority over the rest of the uk. i will not apologise for being rich and working by butt off to get here and live in an expensive city catered to my expensive lifestyle, and if calling my city shit*ole comforts you in knowing i live in the best city in the UK, then by all means go ahead, but statistics are ready for you online, london is the most liveable city under nearly every metric apart from affordability, which isnt an issue for me
I think this shows how little we know about the counties when Buzzfeed mark them incorrectly and how, unlike states, they really don’t matter. We tend to go by city names instead of counties
If you are going to be setting a challenge for people, actually make sure you have the right map and know the counties yourself. This map was last used in 1996! And then in editing you mislabel a county, Lancashire as Cumbria at 3:36.
I'd be interested to have the actual correct maps with the answers at the end of the videos :) so that we actually don't make the same mistakes after haha XD
"So what's Liverpool?" "Merseyside!" "Put it on!" - points to Lancashire "BZZZT", says the pointy arrow added by someone who presumably HAD THE NAMES and still identified Lancashire as Cumbria.
Bad enough that Scotland Wales and N Ireland have been ignored but the borders for the Scottish counties are wrong! They've combined Angus and Perthshire, plus Aberdeenshire and Moray, and many others
phizzyC haha true but there are so many small ones in Scotland it’s sooo hard. Looking at how bad they did in the English ones the Scottish ones would be a calamity! Maybe better if the participants were Scottish though
Find in funny how they cut out the entire time they were labelling the West Midlands and the counties on the welsh border, clearly they didn’t have a clue and guessed them all. It’s truly the middle of know where, no one ever knows where I’m from when I say Herefordshire.
Try being from Norfolk - I saw one of their videos yesterday in which we were described as being from "the North", and now some idiot thinks we're Kent.
@@jakeclough8090 Absolutely - I appreciate that East Anglia can be confusing to some who aren't familiar with this region, but we're really not Northern. We're not Midlanders either, but that's less inaccurate a description than "Northern"!
At 3:58, the chap almost perfectly draws the boundary of Wales (albeit putting Monmouthshire on the English side) but gets a "buzz", which seems a bit harsh. Monmouthshire is almost English, culturally, anyway.
Wait, Norfolk and Suffolk. It's so cool you have so many names from vikings. In scandinavian languages it means northern people and (almost) southern people. There's literally several hundred if not thousands of words in the english language which came from danish and norwegian: Knife, egg, are, awkward, anger, gate, bag, birth, both, bull, cake, call, club, die, dirt, flat, gap, get and I could go on! And you have SO many city or road names also! Every place ending with -ness (like Inverness), -kirk, -by, -thorpe, -thwaite, -toft and -keld. We named York, because vikings couldn't pronounce the old name Eoforwic. And Sheffield.
Yes! I'm from the East Midlands and I'm learning Norwegian, it's so interesting to recognise words and realise the origins of a lot of our place names, as well as slang in my area due to the Viking influence E.g. Mablethorpe, Skegness, Langtoft, Kirkby, Saxilby, honestly there's too many -by endings to list And older folk who still speak in more of the dialect may still say bairn for children and kirk for church
@@jazwragg Wow I had no idea so many cities have oldnorse names :O "By" means "city", so everything in Denmark ends with -by also. Toft is a pretty common lastname here. and Keld is a firstname for older males. One of my friends lastname is kirk. We don't say thorpe and thwaite anymore though. Wow, it must be so cool to suddently be able to recognize these things all around you! I havn't been to the UK yet, but it's on my bucket list. Also... I find it funny that you explain what bairn and kirk means. Yeah I know what it means. It's my language :P :P But good info if someone reading this doesn't understand. Doesn't especially scottish people say bairn a lot still? I have heard it in tv-shows. I had no idea people calls church for kirk in the uk :O That's cool!
@@tetea7257 yeah Scottish people say bairn a lot, and I think kirk as well, and they're definitely in more common usage up there than in my area - I think Yorkshire may use them as well but generally in England only older generations/very rural communities will still regularly use the dialect And yeah, learning Norwegian has been great for just noticing the roots of words around me, and because I also speak some French I can now look at the English language and see where half of it came from haha And you should definitely visit the UK if you've been wanting to, there's some beautiful places... Maybe after this whole pandemic is over though 😬
Only watched to see if any of them could identify Durham and I didn’t hear it mentioned once. But judging by their inability to identify London and Durham’s relative obscurity I don’t hold out much hope
The editors made a lot of mistakes: 2:26 - that is Humberside, not the East Riding. 3:36 - that is Lancashire, not Cumbria. Mistake throughout the whole video: the map they used is very outdated, there are a number of counties that are displayed on this map that have been abolished - Cleveland, Humberside, Avon, and probably more! There are also counties missing from the map - East Riding of Yorkshire, Rutland, etc.
Ian Marshall cuz I live in Cornwall and my dad lives in Plymouth so I go up there a lot and I lived a year in Somerset all of my mums side of the family live in Hampshire but I still don’t actually know where Hampshire is I’m really bad at geography I have live in Cornwall my whole life except for 1 year when I lived in Somerset and I still don’t know where places in Cornwall are like I know them all and I’ve been to them all but if you gave me a map I wouldn’t be able to point out where most places are in Cornwall I go surfing at pollzeth all the time and I still don’t know where in Cornwall it is I have autism so dropped out of most of my classes in year 7 to focus on my core subjects so I dropped out of geography which was my hardest subject and history and a lot of my classes I only kept my core subjects (English maths and science) and textiles I also did arts award once a week and was taken out by a charity called take 2 that takes you out to loads of places like horse riding and bouldering i have hypermobility which efects my joints a lot so doctors say to do more climbing because I like that and it help build strength in my joints I have seizures when my anxiety gets too high and when I was confused in a class I would be too scared to ask for help because I never understood the methods teachers used to teach me so history, geography and English where really hard for me I had to keep English because you aren’t allowed to drop that class
@@sarahharvey9783 You live in the county that is the furthest west in the west country (name given to the selection of counties that have similar traditions, and all sound like farmers/pirates). Counties in the west country are Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire (furthest North), Wiltshire, and Dorset (Furthest East. Hampshire is the county to the east of Dorset and therefore isn't part of the West Country) If you follow the coast to the North of Cornwall (Bristol channel, merges with the River Severn) then those counties go (from west to east) Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire. If you follow the coast to the south of Cornwall (English channel) then those counties go (from west to east) Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Those two coastline paragraphs list all west country counties but Wiltshire, which is the only landlocked county of the west country and is East of Somerset, South East of Gloucestershire and North East of Dorset Polzeath is in the Western part of Cornwall (tip) and on the Northern Coast (Bristol channel) it's just North East of Newquay (also on the coast but further south as the coast is at an angle) Hope that all helped clear it up a bit, but geography is hard to explain without physical stuff to point at
Im from the USA, and I knew about 15 of them for sure. I think watching all those shows like Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin, Royal weddings, The office and all these famous UK singers, made me look up these cities/towns/counties at some point.
@@elernation5519 True, we aren't taught the counties, it's stuff you pick up as you go through life (they should all wear age badges so we can make allowances for them just being young). But it's no defence that they were given the entire UK map IMO - if they couldn't even distinguish between the constituent countries then that'd be even worse (and in fairness, most could, more or less).
Okay that mixed race girl does not sound like she's from South Yorkshire lol, I'm from Rotherham and she sounds proper posh Also very disappointed that they're both apparently from SY and got us confused with chuffin Notts
3:37 A label is shown saying that the place is cumbria its actually lancashire. Funny how correction can also be wrong. Although i dont think buzzfeed viewers are educated on geography and maps so that most likely why no one else is mentioning this
ugh i so wanna go to england, top travel destination for europe. but after the big c is over, and well, i mean.... if you still let 'my kind' in that is. i'd need a month to visit it all from north to south including 2 weeks in ldn!
In all these guess the county/state/county, would definitely prefer a video where they’re shown what they’ve gone wrong. There’s just no pay-off to watching them get things so horribly wrong.
I’m incredibly impressed that any of them managed Merseyside tbh it’s tiny and if you’re not from here there’s no reason for you to have a clue where we are lol
Btw, in the map, you have made Cleveland its own county ( it's not, it's a part of north Yorkshire) and you have added northern Lincolnshire to the east riding and obviously it's a part of Lincolnshire because people didn't like the consept of 'humberside' being a county
in school last year we had to memorise all of the us states and their capitals, all of the south American countries and their capitals and all Asian countries and their capitals INCLUDING THE LOCATION OF ALL OF THEM AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE NOTTINGHAM IS
No offence mate but London isn't the centre of the world, I don't think many people would know specifically where it is up north, just the general area.
'You go over the river and it takes you to Wales' Not quite. Its Wirral! You go over the river and you are still in Merseyside. It used to be the border between Cheshire and Lancashire before the 70s.
It's not actually that difficult, you'll have picked up a lot just from background information growing up Travel around the country a bit and you'll know it in no time
‘ I know where Cheshire is, it’s in Liverpool, because in Liverpool there was a shopping centre called Cheshire oaks, wtf, Cheshire oaks in in Cheshire ( Ellesmere Port)
Liverpool is in merseyside btw, mighty portside mighty labd, Liverpool forevermore stand, through turning cogs, through flaning logs the river will never subside. Little scouse poem for you
I did some reasearch (google) it's in Chester, whcih is just south of where i live in merseyside, so possiblly i went there as a kid because its quite close
@@ms.antithesis The Wirral was historically Cheshire for hundreds of years till 1974. The boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire was the River Mersey.
Me too. As someone who lives in Hampshire, i was shocked. Hampshire is the easiest one to find as it is right above the Isle of Wight. Although, to be fair, Winchester is a city in Hampshire so he was slightly right.
@@emiliekirk1430 I think Kent's the easiest one as it's the closest to France (of course you have to know that France is for the most part southeast of Great Britain). But of course that's because I'm from Kent. I can name all the counties along the south coast, but after that, apart from a few, it's not so good.
Rutland is not marked on the map despite it being on the lists, so this challenge would have been impossible as the maps were not displaying the same counties as the lists.
You have a new list and an old map. Unless you make modifications to the map, there is no way you would even be able to get all english counties. Humberside, Avon, Hereford and Worcester and Cleveland were all abolished. Rutland was re-introduced too. But this map still shows that…
And they say Americans are bad haha.. I know all our states and capitals although many Americans forget them as they age out of school and most get jumbled as you move out west as they are all pretty much the same looking square shapes ..
Them laughing about Sussex. Me laughing about the time the first three letters of the sign for the bed shop Sussex beds and would walk past it everyday
This got me so triggered - Someone from Nottinghamshire who lives in Lincolnshire My hometown lies on the boarder of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire making me even more triggered
I can't name all the counties in my state. In Washington state, I could locate Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, Island, Snohomish, King, Pierce... after that it's a crapshoot. "Oh please, can we just use our phones?"
I think what worries me the most is, the general lack of direction- can someone teach them north, south, east, west please; they might actually get a few right then
Americans actually learn their map with all the states on. We don't learn where all the counties are. And we refer to then as cites and towns. Like I'm going up North. And we don't really learn the other counties map and where the counties are
To be fair, if you only presented them with the half of England that they came from, they'd come out of this looking a lot better. And that is essentially the equivalent of doing the 26 counties of Ireland. This exercise showed that people from the south don't know the north and vice versa.
So are British kids: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239044/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Geography.pdf Ask a few Irish and they'd be just as bad. It's not a contest mate haha
to be fair, we don’t refer to parts of england as counties, as often as cities or regions. like most of the time we just say down south, up north, near birmingham etc
Also there are multiple definitions of counties. In my mind Yorkshire is a county but it's not a ceremonial county, which is what Buzzfeed seem to have used. London isn't a county for example. Is the Isle of Wight a county or a Unitary Council? Are Merseyside and Tyne and Wear or are they Metropolitan counties?
Counties also change over time leading to more confusion. People in London still refer to places as being in other counties, for example Dagenham is often incorrectly placed in Essex when, like much of London, that hasn't been true since the Local Government Act of 1965
Also north south means different things to different people. Seeing as I went to uni in Stoke and they thought they were Northeners but it took them less time to get to London than it did for me to get back to northumberland. To me north is Cumbria, Yorkshire northumberland Newcastle anything below that is Midlands and South.
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@@sie4431 Well for me that's going a little too in depth, but of course I do respect yout point of view.
@@chloehesse9138 Lol yes, we can all refer to cultural norms but before you know it folks can feel "left out" and it simmers over centuries. Being a Scot I've always referred to say Cumbria as the north of England, as opposed to just the north. The only reason the BBC give more detailed weather info for Devon and Cornwall is because more southerners have holidays homes there. You don't get the same amount of detail for Aberdeenshire, or the Scottish Highlands :)
as a brit i can confidently locate more US states on a map than counties in the UK 🇬🇧
me too
Same, we don’t really put any focus on counties in the U.K. I think
I could actually get more english counties than they could, and i could get all US states and capitals right
I think it's cause a lot states have a distinct shape but English counties are just messes
@@jen_sen8508 Also for the fact that there's only 50 states all with differing cultures and stuff. Like yeah Mississippi and Alabama are a lot similar but ones known for catfish and the other for college football
It's interesting that they are all so uncertain of where London is
its because London to most people in the UK isn't really that important, even though it's our capital a majority of people don't even care about London in general because it's just such a weird place to live. there is a saying that if you're from London you love it, if you're not you hate it, and i can confirm that going to London is the most stressful thing I've ever done, and i have travelled from China to South Korea in 2017 during the THAAD missle crisis and that was fucking stressful xD. (also london involes, greater london, the city of london, the town of london and London, so it gets confusing haha).
@@independentresearch2432 'london to most people in the uk isnt really that important' bold claim lmao. i moved to the uk from canada, when i was 7 and lived in manchester then cardiff and a spell in bristol until i was 15, then dad got a job in london and we've been here ever since, and can honestly say i only started actually liking england/uk after living in london. if youre well travelled and have good expectations that garner from seeing many different things implemented in different areas of the world, then london is best suited to your needs, and the services and in general way the rest of the country is run is abysmal tbh, but london is the centralised place of the country and gets most of the nations money so maybe thats why. me and my brother wanted to go back to vancouver growing up, but ever since we settled in london that dream gone out the window, and my brother is now happily married in upminster. everyone that i know that has visited london along with other cities, both as british and non-british has loved london the most, so your saying that ive not heard before doesnt really ring true. the only negative is too many people, so housing is a lot, but my job pays well cause london pays well, so its suited to that, and also it does get busy, but a lot, like me, work in the city but live in the outskirts so not too busy during your social time, and the inner city is just as busy as any major city, i dont really expect the beacon of western europe and a city that carries the rest of the nation financially to be that quiet
@@azih8626 im sorry but my source is you know... being born and raised in the UK for i dont know about 20 years of my life (apart from the other two i have lived in both China and Korea recently) and talking from a generic british person *outside* of london... i think i know what i am speaking about, i never said people haven't heard of it i am just saying we dont really pay too much attention to its location on a map, obviously london is fairly important in the grand scheme of things BUT we also have other shit going on in the UK. and i still stand by the statement that MOST british people HATE going into london. You will find that most foreign nationals prefer london because they can find things that remind them of home because london is so diverse but people who are british have our own britishness attached to our own towns, i don't relate to londoners to be honest, and ive been all over the UK, london is by far the only place i dont really have a connection with other than school trips to museums and so on. so i stand by my original statement and have even spoken to my friend from different areas in the UK about the subject and 99% of them said London just absolutley sucks because its expensive and is incredibly inconvenient compared to our home towns.
@@azih8626 I wouldn't say it's a bold claim at all. People born in the UK aren't overly fussed about London as a lot of the city is a bit of a shithole. Yeah it's nice for a visit annually during the holidays, but the thought of living or settling down there to many would be literal hell lol.
You probably have a different view coming internationally and sounding as though you're quite well travelled. Majority of people in the UK will be born and raised in one area, maybe move to a different part of the UK for uni, and then make their way back to their hometown or stay close to where they attended uni. Ones that don't go to uni will hardly give leaving their hometown a second thought either.
@@wazzasaurus respectfully, ive been to a lot of northern cities and been to some of the most run down areas in south, if london is a shithole i would implore you to tell me what the other cities ive been to that look 3rd world are. london is by the far the best liveable city in the uk, and the only ones who disagree are the ones who have an agenda against london and its superiority over the rest of the uk. i will not apologise for being rich and working by butt off to get here and live in an expensive city catered to my expensive lifestyle, and if calling my city shit*ole comforts you in knowing i live in the best city in the UK, then by all means go ahead, but statistics are ready for you online, london is the most liveable city under nearly every metric apart from affordability, which isnt an issue for me
we literally never learn these in school, can’t be mad at them getting certain ones wrong ... and why are there so many!!
okay but its kinda basic knowledge? Surely they should've pick it up from travelling no?
@@sebastiaorodrigues2843 This isn't basic knowledge unless your a person that loves to look at a map of England
baby binx the real question is why Americans get called dumb when they get the states wrong but nobody’s calling the people in this dumb😂
@@user-nc8wc5mn4i i know i was thinking that myself a bit of a double standard ain't it
Jon actually we don’t get taught the states in school. At least properly. It’s optional extra work. But I do get the size thing so that makes sense
Your map is 25 years out of date. You’re trying to fit an up to date list of counties of a map that changed in the mid 1990s
Is that why Worcestershire and Herefordshire are one county on this map?
I wondered why part of Lincolnshire was in East Riding
These are the ceremonial counties, not the governmental counties.
Greater Manchester is on here though? unless they've spliced different maps together.
Yeah I'm not sure what's going on in the south west. There's Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Wiltshire, then Somerset and Gloucestershire are 3 counties.
Team who got the highest: hmmm, okay
Team who got 15: YAAAAAAAAAYYY
Is true
they should do the reveal of the scores with all of them together.
To be fair that is often the case in life. Those who do well are the ones who are moat critical of themselves and always looking for ways to improve.
Fully why did they think wales was in the north west of England
I mean the Kingdom of Strathclyde was Brythonic, maybe they just forgot it wasn't 1000AD lol
Tbf a lot of the places in thr north west has welshy names
I think this shows how little we know about the counties when Buzzfeed mark them incorrectly and how, unlike states, they really don’t matter. We tend to go by city names instead of counties
People who live in cities go by city names but people in towns and villages say the counties name
JackVader 10 I live in a town and go by a mix of cities and counties
I live in a town and just say the city nearest
@@saxx9088 I live in a town aswell but just say the county because I'm over an hour away from the nearest city
@@jackvader107 Im from Hooley, so I say I'm from Hooley. I know people from all sorts of towns and villages and none of them say the county usually.
BuzzFeedUK, instead of just telling how much they got right, I suggest you show them which one they got wrong too.
Wish they’d show them reacting to the corrections of the ones they labelled wrong 😂
At 3:36, it says Cumbria, but it's actually Lancashire, even the editors got it wrong
i actually got a bit annoyed at that
I got triggered as I’m from the border of Lancashire and Cumbria in Lancaster
The lake district was 1 county up from that
6BC Map same
@Alicia QUINN-JONESmerseyside hates both of you
Buzzfeed person: "Wales!"
*Cumbria*
I cringed so hard 😬
Guy C G. I wanted to die. I live in Cumbria
Elernation Cumbria? Never heard of it, must be Wales
Well Cumbria is Yr Hen Ogledd, could be a worse guess
She said it so confidently as well, I literally died laughing. Im not even british?
That's the shape of Eastenders I'm so finished 😂
Ivanabelle 😂😂
I can’t believe how wrong they got some of these😂 imagine thinking Kent is Norfolk...
she really looked at lancashire and went "yeah, seems like wales to me"
I got an A in GCSE Geography and I have got to say that I would have done much worse than them 🤷🏽♀️
K It’s because we aren’t taught these
@@elernation5519 Yup, we get taught about the formation of a waterfall instead 😶
School shows nothing
I knew them but I’m good at this stuff as I know where every country is every flag and every capital city as well as all the states
Yeah but you can tell them the types of rocks, sedimentary and magma and shit damn GCSE geography was useful wasn't it
If you are going to be setting a challenge for people, actually make sure you have the right map and know the counties yourself. This map was last used in 1996! And then in editing you mislabel a county, Lancashire as Cumbria at 3:36.
Hanifah and Tom are both lefties and they got the most right - is that saying something??
K yes
they are left handed so they are actually putting in the effort
I'd be interested to have the actual correct maps with the answers at the end of the videos :) so that we actually don't make the same mistakes after haha XD
Hanifah is bloody gorgeous.
That is all.
This was painful to watch.
Painful because this is every Brit 😂 no lie
@@RK-ep8qy really? The brits I've talked to say they're expects at geography
@@unfortunate7803 you mean experts?
"So what's Liverpool?"
"Merseyside!"
"Put it on!" - points to Lancashire
"BZZZT", says the pointy arrow added by someone who presumably HAD THE NAMES and still identified Lancashire as Cumbria.
Targaff Sarachanvator innit. Buzzfeed’s quizzes are a shambles.
Someone thinks the Mersey ferry takes you to Wales
@@04nbod haha. It takes you to birkenhead.
Random UA-cam Channel yes and no. It can but these days it stops primarily at Seacombe
@@04nbod well Wallasey then.
Im actually shocked at how few of them knew where London, Surrey, Hampshire and West/East Sussex and Kent were, :O
Bad enough that Scotland Wales and N Ireland have been ignored but the borders for the Scottish counties are wrong! They've combined Angus and Perthshire, plus Aberdeenshire and Moray, and many others
phizzyC yeah the welsh counties are all messed up too like it’s straight up missing most XD
It was a quiz about England? Is it allowed to do a Scotland only quiz? Obviously.
@@angusgoddard-watts2355 oh I understand but they are BuzzFeed UK! And do you think they'll actually ever do Scotland or Wales or NI? Nope!
phizzyC haha true but there are so many small ones in Scotland it’s sooo hard. Looking at how bad they did in the English ones the Scottish ones would be a calamity! Maybe better if the participants were Scottish though
@@angusgoddard-watts2355 hopefully one day they do it
Find in funny how they cut out the entire time they were labelling the West Midlands and the counties on the welsh border, clearly they didn’t have a clue and guessed them all. It’s truly the middle of know where, no one ever knows where I’m from when I say Herefordshire.
The people who really didn’t know where Yorkshire was scared me
The pens honestly bother me more than the mistakes. But I still love these videos!
Stressed by people having no idea where things are in the north
Oh yeah and they bloody nailed the south 😂
Im from the south so I know where the southern counties are but I only know where about 3 counties are from the north and midlands
Try being from Norfolk - I saw one of their videos yesterday in which we were described as being from "the North", and now some idiot thinks we're Kent.
Chris Bell anywhere north of London is the north to them. Or anything not London
@@jakeclough8090 Absolutely - I appreciate that East Anglia can be confusing to some who aren't familiar with this region, but we're really not Northern. We're not Midlanders either, but that's less inaccurate a description than "Northern"!
Buzzfeed messed up too haha. Wasn't it Lancashire when they labelled "Cumbria"?
At 3:58, the chap almost perfectly draws the boundary of Wales (albeit putting Monmouthshire on the English side) but gets a "buzz", which seems a bit harsh. Monmouthshire is almost English, culturally, anyway.
This is disgusting and I would be ashamed if I did this bad.
Wait, Norfolk and Suffolk. It's so cool you have so many names from vikings. In scandinavian languages it means northern people and (almost) southern people.
There's literally several hundred if not thousands of words in the english language which came from danish and norwegian: Knife, egg, are, awkward, anger, gate, bag, birth, both, bull, cake, call, club, die, dirt, flat, gap, get and I could go on!
And you have SO many city or road names also! Every place ending with -ness (like Inverness), -kirk, -by, -thorpe, -thwaite, -toft and -keld. We named York, because vikings couldn't pronounce the old name Eoforwic. And Sheffield.
Yes! I'm from the East Midlands and I'm learning Norwegian, it's so interesting to recognise words and realise the origins of a lot of our place names, as well as slang in my area due to the Viking influence
E.g. Mablethorpe, Skegness, Langtoft, Kirkby, Saxilby, honestly there's too many -by endings to list
And older folk who still speak in more of the dialect may still say bairn for children and kirk for church
@@jazwragg Wow I had no idea so many cities have oldnorse names :O
"By" means "city", so everything in Denmark ends with -by also. Toft is a pretty common lastname here. and Keld is a firstname for older males. One of my friends lastname is kirk. We don't say thorpe and thwaite anymore though.
Wow, it must be so cool to suddently be able to recognize these things all around you! I havn't been to the UK yet, but it's on my bucket list.
Also... I find it funny that you explain what bairn and kirk means. Yeah I know what it means. It's my language :P :P But good info if someone reading this doesn't understand.
Doesn't especially scottish people say bairn a lot still? I have heard it in tv-shows. I had no idea people calls church for kirk in the uk :O That's cool!
@@tetea7257 yeah Scottish people say bairn a lot, and I think kirk as well, and they're definitely in more common usage up there than in my area - I think Yorkshire may use them as well but generally in England only older generations/very rural communities will still regularly use the dialect
And yeah, learning Norwegian has been great for just noticing the roots of words around me, and because I also speak some French I can now look at the English language and see where half of it came from haha
And you should definitely visit the UK if you've been wanting to, there's some beautiful places... Maybe after this whole pandemic is over though 😬
Literally, the biggest nightmare of my life is British counties' geography. I'm CUH-LUE-LESS.
Only watched to see if any of them could identify Durham and I didn’t hear it mentioned once. But judging by their inability to identify London and Durham’s relative obscurity I don’t hold out much hope
Durham isn’t a county it’s a city right?
There’s both the county and the city within
Thats what i was looking for im in durham too
The editors made a lot of mistakes:
2:26 - that is Humberside, not the East Riding.
3:36 - that is Lancashire, not Cumbria.
Mistake throughout the whole video: the map they used is very outdated, there are a number of counties that are displayed on this map that have been abolished - Cleveland, Humberside, Avon, and probably more! There are also counties missing from the map - East Riding of Yorkshire, Rutland, etc.
3:36 Even the correction tag was wrong, the arrow is actually pointing at Lancashire and Cumbria is the one above it.
3:36 that’s actually Lancashire
Mixing up Kent and Essex was pretty shocking to me, but then I would fail hard on the northern ones.
If I took a shot for every time that buzzer went off for a wrong answer, I would most likely be dead of alcohol poisoning lol.
I only know where Cornwall and Devon and Somerset are that’s it
What age are you ? How come you only know three? Not trying to offend, just interested :)
Ian Marshall cuz I live in Cornwall and my dad lives in Plymouth so I go up there a lot and I lived a year in Somerset all of my mums side of the family live in Hampshire but I still don’t actually know where Hampshire is I’m really bad at geography I have live in Cornwall my whole life except for 1 year when I lived in Somerset and I still don’t know where places in Cornwall are like I know them all and I’ve been to them all but if you gave me a map I wouldn’t be able to point out where most places are in Cornwall I go surfing at pollzeth all the time and I still don’t know where in Cornwall it is I have autism so dropped out of most of my classes in year 7 to focus on my core subjects so I dropped out of geography which was my hardest subject and history and a lot of my classes I only kept my core subjects (English maths and science) and textiles I also did arts award once a week and was taken out by a charity called take 2 that takes you out to loads of places like horse riding and bouldering i have hypermobility which efects my joints a lot so doctors say to do more climbing because I like that and it help build strength in my joints I have seizures when my anxiety gets too high and when I was confused in a class I would be too scared to ask for help because I never understood the methods teachers used to teach me so history, geography and English where really hard for me I had to keep English because you aren’t allowed to drop that class
@@sarahharvey9783 You live in the county that is the furthest west in the west country (name given to the selection of counties that have similar traditions, and all sound like farmers/pirates). Counties in the west country are Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire (furthest North), Wiltshire, and Dorset (Furthest East. Hampshire is the county to the east of Dorset and therefore isn't part of the West Country)
If you follow the coast to the North of Cornwall (Bristol channel, merges with the River Severn) then those counties go (from west to east) Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire.
If you follow the coast to the south of Cornwall (English channel) then those counties go (from west to east) Cornwall, Devon, Dorset
Those two coastline paragraphs list all west country counties but Wiltshire, which is the only landlocked county of the west country and is East of Somerset, South East of Gloucestershire and North East of Dorset
Polzeath is in the Western part of Cornwall (tip) and on the Northern Coast (Bristol channel) it's just North East of Newquay (also on the coast but further south as the coast is at an angle)
Hope that all helped clear it up a bit, but geography is hard to explain without physical stuff to point at
Ibknow tye entire west coast, and norfolk abd suffolk for some reason, adj that's it
Im from the USA, and I knew about 15 of them for sure. I think watching all those shows like Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin, Royal weddings, The office and all these famous UK singers, made me look up these cities/towns/counties at some point.
I take it back, I knew only 9.
saybanana Well we aren’t taught this in school and they gave them the entire UK
@@elernation5519 True, we aren't taught the counties, it's stuff you pick up as you go through life (they should all wear age badges so we can make allowances for them just being young). But it's no defence that they were given the entire UK map IMO - if they couldn't even distinguish between the constituent countries then that'd be even worse (and in fairness, most could, more or less).
I knew about 20, mostly west coast
Buzzfeed go to set 8 to get people to come on their show
Okay that mixed race girl does not sound like she's from South Yorkshire lol, I'm from Rotherham and she sounds proper posh
Also very disappointed that they're both apparently from SY and got us confused with chuffin Notts
She sounds more manc to me
She could be from somewhere else in SY like sheffield?
@@LivingAsTasha she doesn't sound Sheffield at all either tho. Maybe she's lost the accent having been in America so long
3:37 A label is shown saying that the place is cumbria its actually lancashire. Funny how correction can also be wrong. Although i dont think buzzfeed viewers are educated on geography and maps so that most likely why no one else is mentioning this
I get it may be difficult to know all of them but... ffs how do you not know where your capital City is?
ᛞᚨᛝᛁᛞᛖ PSQ we don’t like London
also we know the general area but the counties are a mess
ugh i so wanna go to england, top travel destination for europe. but after the big c is over, and well, i mean.... if you still let 'my kind' in that is. i'd need a month to visit it all from north to south including 2 weeks in ldn!
wdym “your kind”
@@sneakerhead6625 eastern european, from one of them places you hate innit?
I know where Northampton county is because that’s where Wellingborough is, which is where DanTDM lives, and I’m from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire
Lancashire is part of Manchester and Liverpool still part of County Palatine.
Daniel Clarke both Liverpool and Manchester are in Lancashire but administered by Merseyside and greater Manchester
No it's not, Lanchester is north of blackpool, and Merseyside is usually reffered to as Liverpool by most people in merseyside.
Wait soeet got lancashire and Lanchester confused for a sec
But Merseyside is still usually reffered to as Liverpool doe
Tuxified Art nope only a part, St. Helens is in Merseyside and they would rather be called Mancunians than scousers
That was really good. I think they all did really well especially the two who got 23. There is alot of people who have no idea where any counties are.
When they say where I am from I am buzzing with buzzfeed!!!!
I always thought Kent was an easy place to know the whereabouts of because there is the channel tunnel to France.
I love Hanifah and Tom, they are always the best.
3:05 As a Margateian(??), people know what Margate is outside of Kent? Amazed.
I'm not even a Brit but I know where Cornwall is. It was the shooting location of the movie 1917. That's why I know.
What's that song at around 3:30. It used to be on Waterloo Road.
In all these guess the county/state/county, would definitely prefer a video where they’re shown what they’ve gone wrong. There’s just no pay-off to watching them get things so horribly wrong.
I’m incredibly impressed that any of them managed Merseyside tbh it’s tiny and if you’re not from here there’s no reason for you to have a clue where we are lol
Get real, I'm Dutch and I know perfectly well where it is. I'm very unimpressed by their performance.
Btw, in the map, you have made Cleveland its own county ( it's not, it's a part of north Yorkshire) and you have added northern Lincolnshire to the east riding and obviously it's a part of Lincolnshire because people didn't like the consept of 'humberside' being a county
in school last year we had to memorise all of the us states and their capitals, all of the south American countries and their capitals and all Asian countries and their capitals INCLUDING THE LOCATION OF ALL OF THEM AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE NOTTINGHAM IS
I don’t even know where my own county is on this map we’re never taught this stuff 😭
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6BC Map um ok?
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6BC Map right,,
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3:37 ehrm... right?!? Lancashire ; Cumbria... whatever you know
They should defo label a map of Africa! The motherland❤
I could probably label morroco and south Africa (I'm sorry)
thats easy
@@RK-ep8qy omg ur sooooooooooooooo racist omg 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
@@CombatHD3 the counties of africa MUAHAHAHAHA
Fair enough not being able to name all of the but you would expect everyone to be able to name Greater London.
No offence mate but London isn't the centre of the world, I don't think many people would know specifically where it is up north, just the general area.
I didn't even know it was called greater London, i have an attatude of avoidijg learning anything about the south due to sheer northern pride
'You go over the river and it takes you to Wales'
Not quite. Its Wirral! You go over the river and you are still in Merseyside. It used to be the border between Cheshire and Lancashire before the 70s.
Yes, cross the Mersey to Penbedw!! Lol!! ( Birkenhead in Welsh btw)
@@martinhughes2549 Its been a while since our last eisteddfod its like you don't love us anymore
@@04nbod Everyone loves Cilgwri...
Thank you Buzzfeed, now
I know my counties
FOR FUCK SAKE 😭😂😂 scraped the barrel with this guys didn't ya
Says Cumbria on correction when he pointed at Lancashire
love how no one knows the midlands
i can name and locate all the us states but can barely name any counties :( i feel like i’m betraying my country
You could make amends by learning the English counties? Just a thought.
It's not actually that difficult, you'll have picked up a lot just from background information growing up
Travel around the country a bit and you'll know it in no time
‘ I know where Cheshire is, it’s in Liverpool, because in Liverpool there was a shopping centre called Cheshire oaks, wtf, Cheshire oaks in in Cheshire ( Ellesmere Port)
We do have a cheshire oaks in merseyside..i remember going wuej i was a kid
Liverpool is in merseyside btw, mighty portside mighty labd, Liverpool forevermore stand, through turning cogs, through flaning logs the river will never subside. Little scouse poem for you
@Tom Taylor i thought chesire oaks was a franchise,maybe theirs multipl
I did some reasearch (google) it's in Chester, whcih is just south of where i live in merseyside, so possiblly i went there as a kid because its quite close
@@ms.antithesis The Wirral was historically Cheshire for hundreds of years till 1974. The boundary between Lancashire and Cheshire was the River Mersey.
This is genuinely terrifying
The group with 23 was not as excited like the others and they got the highest score😂
1:07 *feeling kinda offended because she put my county in Wales* 😂😠
I'm from shropshire and can relate rip
@@aconspiracyunmasked Same lol
Good grief....is this what a university education gets ya......lolololol
Why have you the preseved counties of Wales and not the current ones
I was offended when he said Winchester 🤦🏾♂️
And when he said Hampshire and no coast.
Me too. As someone who lives in Hampshire, i was shocked. Hampshire is the easiest one to find as it is right above the Isle of Wight.
Although, to be fair, Winchester is a city in Hampshire so he was slightly right.
@@emiliekirk1430 I think Kent's the easiest one as it's the closest to France (of course you have to know that France is for the most part southeast of Great Britain). But of course that's because I'm from Kent. I can name all the counties along the south coast, but after that, apart from a few, it's not so good.
Every country in the world me: big brain when there are counties and states me: I commit death
They need to play this video in the education committee of Parliament and watch all the people CRY!
SCANDAL!
English counties are so small. We have ones the size of Ireland....
Rip Shropshire
Rutland is not marked on the map despite it being on the lists, so this challenge would have been impossible as the maps were not displaying the same counties as the lists.
You have a new list and an old map. Unless you make modifications to the map, there is no way you would even be able to get all english counties. Humberside, Avon, Hereford and Worcester and Cleveland were all abolished. Rutland was re-introduced too. But this map still shows that…
An an American, this showed me how much I know about England without having lived there thanks to rock and roll.
And they say Americans are bad haha.. I know all our states and capitals although many Americans forget them as they age out of school and most get jumbled as you move out west as they are all pretty much the same looking square shapes ..
Them laughing about Sussex. Me laughing about the time the first three letters of the sign for the bed shop Sussex beds and would walk past it everyday
Alex Owen I live in Sussex and its pretty decent tbh
i feel like this has already been uploaded?
it has, it was uploaded 9 months ago
This got me so triggered - Someone from Nottinghamshire who lives in Lincolnshire
My hometown lies on the boarder of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire making me even more triggered
When she pointed at Scotland and said wales
3:37 it was actually lancashire not cumbria
I can't name all the counties in my state. In Washington state, I could locate Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, Island, Snohomish, King, Pierce... after that it's a crapshoot.
"Oh please, can we just use our phones?"
Those Welsh county boundaries were changed on 1996.
What happened to Shropshire!? 😂
I think what worries me the most is, the general lack of direction- can someone teach them north, south, east, west please; they might actually get a few right then
Americans actually learn their map with all the states on. We don't learn where all the counties are. And we refer to then as cites and towns. Like I'm going up North. And we don't really learn the other counties map and where the counties are
Wow, I'm form Ireland and we learn all of the counties in Ireland in school by the time we're 10.
To be fair, if you only presented them with the half of England that they came from, they'd come out of this looking a lot better. And that is essentially the equivalent of doing the 26 counties of Ireland. This exercise showed that people from the south don't know the north and vice versa.
I was taught what my pwn county was, ajd why it's the best county, and not much else, because fuck the rest of the country
So are British kids: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239044/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Geography.pdf Ask a few Irish and they'd be just as bad. It's not a contest mate haha
The fact that two of them wrote the West Midlands for Lincolnshire hurts
“Oh, please can we just use our phones” is every student ever
I literally do GCSE geography and we only know where clacton, Walton and Batman’s cave is
I always just say in Yorkshire or down near the shires
How did they not know Kent