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.

    • Ace@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Fair, my despicable anglocentrism is showing :) I guess the question applies equally to scotland, wales, and NI though. I’d imagine that counties are more well-known in those places, but maybe not.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I think most people know the ones they’re near, perhaps by latitude. I’d probably be fine with everything North of the Midlands, but I’d struggle with all the little bits down south, unless I’d invaded them in Crusader Kings II or something.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Let’s see how many times I can do this until I consistently get over 80%:

    1. 37%
    2. 48%
    3. 76%
    4. 79%
    5. 94%
    6. 98%
    7. 100% (Pin: Hard)

    Some fun tips to remember:

    • Berkshire is where the Berks live, lying horizontal like the berks they are.
    • Warwickshire is doing pincer-like war tactics.
    • Bristol is Gloucestershire’s penis.
    • Wiltshire has a bird on it, and the queen is a bird so the one that looks like the queen victoria’s head
    • Lanca is left, and Linca is right in my made up head language
    • Rutland looks like a runty little thing
  • bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    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!

    • Ace@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      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 :)

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      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)

  • CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    I got 59%, which I think is good for a first attempt! To be fair, going from Historic counties to Ceremonial counties in the 1990s did make it more difficult for people.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    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)

  • remon@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    No … but I recently learned that Sussex is further divided into “rapes”.

      • speendle@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Thanks, that’s great :)

        I’m also using ubo but NextDNS rather than a pinhole - I’ll have to investigate and see if there’s more I can do to get the increasing numbers of html-load using sites to load…