I'll go with my opinion that there are a lot of people anywhere any country that does not know something. And when questioned about things were learned in grade school (hopefully properly) that a lot of people will get it wrong.

Getting people educated, even half way, is a good start for getting the world out of the hate mongering that threatens it.

The current thread only discusses two English speaking countries, doesn't deal with Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Australian, New Zealand...

How do we know that there aren't Russian who don't know where the USA is? For a long time Russia didn't publish maps of its own country...