One in nine Brits can’t find London on a map’- can you identify where these cities are?
ONE in nine Britons cannot find London on a map, a study found.
Shockingly, 68 per cent are out of Toon with where Newcastle is.
Knowledge of Stoke-on-Trent’s location went to pot for 65 per cent.
And 64 per cent are clueless about Sheffield being in South Yorkshire.
Dozy Brits are most familiar with London but 11 per cent cannot place it.
The next best-known were Brighton (18 per cent don’t know its whereabouts) and Cardiff (25 per cent).
Experts hope this summer’s expected surge in staycations will improve our knowledge of our beloved Blighty.
Talveer Sandhu, of business training firm , which carried out the research, said: “It is undeniable that our love for going abroad has increased in past years, with previously popular at-home tourist spots suffering. As we’ve fallen out of love with our home nation for holidays this seems to have affected how well we know it.
“However, lockdowns and staycation trends mean that even as pandemic restrictions ease we expect Brits to explore their home turf again and become more familiar with the cities around us.”
The study also revealed we struggle to name and locate landmarks. Only 38 per cent could identify that the New Forest is in Hampshire.
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England’s highest mountain — Scafell Pike in Cumbria — was the landmark known to most of the study, with 72 per cent getting it right.
A total of 4,117 Brits were given a random selection of 20 cities and asked to say where they thought they were located on a map of Great Britain.
Correct answers were classed as anything within 15 miles.
Answers
A) Aberdeen
B) Glasgow
C) Newcastle
D) Belfast
E) Hull
F) Sheffield
G) Stoke-on-Trent
H) Nottingham
I) Leicester
J) Wolverhampton
K) Birmingham
L) Coventry
M) Northampton
N) Luton
O) London
P) Cardiff
Q) Southampton
R) Brighton
S) Portsmouth
T) Plymouth
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