British Citizenship Test | How Well Do Brits Know Their Geography?

Eline Van Der Velden is on the street getting people to draw a map of the UK, and then pinpoint various locations on a map of the UK

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[Hazzar]

I face planted my desk watching this. It's like none of them had looked at a map before

[associationassignment]

Parliament also think that England is only in the south

[pixiepie]

This doesn’t surprise me. The number of times I’ve heard Londoners tell me they’re not interested in going up north. It’s no wonder they don’t know where the north is. X

[painbow]

This isn't a test of Brits; it's a test of Londoners. So essentially a test of boiled parsnips.

[deaneaste]

“Some sort of Cardiff in Cornwall”! You mock them yet the county you actually mean is Devon.

[FRANKwoooo]

"We've got a Newcastle somewhere round Cornwall"

>Points to devon

[JoeRabone]

There’s a certain irony in that this woman is making a point that people don’t know where parts of the UK are then says that someone’s marked Cardiff in Cornwall despite the two stickers are in Devon 🤦‍♂️

[tigerbw]

This can be done with any country and you'll find the same results. People interested in geography will only know major things about it, however, these kids did not some basic things and they did alright. You clearly cherrypicked (this is done for many countries - all cherrypicked only showing the bad people!). I expected better from you BBC.

[holckylondon]

I went to school in Yorkshire (in England for those who don't know). Despite having "geography" lessons throughout school, I basically had to teach myself where countries and cities are located on a map. I guess that entire part of school was a complete waste of time. I worry that others haven't made the same effort I have. Please understand these people were let down by the education system. I hope things will change.

[LeWiSKSMUDGEMOONED]

Should be titled how well do Londoners/Southerners know their Geography. Absolute tools that are only arsed about what's inside the M25.

[rohandyer]

Do the same test in the North and see how much smarter we are

[AJ-CR]

I'm American and I thought we had bad geography skills.. wow.

[TaraZoe]

So many people saying that they are Londoners when this is filmed in reading and not London😂

[SweetandFitting]

They interview hundreds and use the footage of the least knowledgeable people...

[wba]

This is still about as statistically significant as the video, but most people I know from the south have never even been as far north as Birmingham.

[NibberKSmooth]

Geography is not taught the right way in schools. It is basic general knowledge to name even ten major UK cities yet most school pupils from Year 5 and up would be completely wrong.

[calumhill]

The presenter couldn't get Edinburgh right either, looks more like Grangemouth

[Beliefic]

cannit believe some of them thought Newcastle was in the south. Jesus Christ

[ThoseTwoBrits]

We just tried a few uk citizenship questions on our channel and yeah I guess we did pretty badly 😬

[rojasashlito]

The presenter didn't know where Bristol was