To be fair, the majority of Americans are geographically challenged/ignorant.
Switzerland
All things Switzerland!
Yeah. A lady I worked with who was a good 15 years older than me asked “where is Norwegia?” when we were discussing something to do with Norwegians.
Lol in Spanish it's even easier to confuse them as they are called Suecia (Sweden) and Suiza (Switzerland).
Swedish person here, don’t think that’s actually happened once
American who's moved to Switzerland here, the number of times I've had friends/relatives ask me "How's life in Sweden?" is quite frankly astounding
Well, you live closer to Sweden than they do. Surely you can glance out of your window and check every once and a while?
So I always doubted that meme... Then I went on holiday in the US and Canada.... Nope. Quite a few people mixed it up
Well, yes, obviously if you bring US people into it. Asking them about geography is a bit of a cheat IMO.
If this is a real problem, then we can start using Switzerlands propper name Helvetica
Helvetica is a font, definitely not the proper name of Switzerland. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica
You're probably thinking of Helvetia, which is neither the real name of Switzerland as it is an allegorical figure which represents Switzerland.
If you want the real official name of Switzerland, then you'll have to get it into one of the official languages:
- Confédération suisse in French
- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft in German
- Confederazione svizzera in Italian
- Confederaziun svizra in romanche
On English it would be the Swiss confederation, or... Switzerland in short.