Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoAnd I just can’t with that level of American stupidity.
Not just Americans, most people don’t read/watch the link
The fact that I know how many states the US has and how many provinces and tertories Canada has, but an American would be stabbing in the dark
Not surprising given our influence on your culture is far greater than the other way, landmass is worthless when it’s full of the Outback (a beautiful place for sure)
And you’d be surprised how many of us know it’s 6, I bet. Californians get to play with you guys online if we stay up past our bedtimes, after all.
The more fun part is going to be me trying to name them and see if I still can: Queensland, New South Whales, Western? Australia, Northern? Australia, Victoria (you already HAVE ONE NAMED AFTER THE QUEEN THOUGH), Tasmania? Is that one you guys?
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is a good point about cultural export, majority of modern content use American, and the majority of childhood content at least for me was Canadian.
I’m often surprised how little I know of the UK compared to the USA when I think of how much is imported to Australia from the UK …including my family.
Thank you so much for giving me your guesses at state names, we did make it easy for you with just a bunch of cardinal directions.
You are bang on with 6 states, and almost bang on with their names.
The place you’ve dubbed “Northern Australia” is the “Northern Territory” and is not a state, the state you are missing is South Australia.
We have two major territories, Northern Territory as mentioned, but then similar to the USA, our national capital is not located within a state.
Our capital city is in “The Australian Capital Territory”, or just “the ACT”
We are super creative with the names. Hence why we named 2 after the Queen (then stupidly named the capital city of Victoria “Melbourne” instead of “Batmania”, which was totally an option on the table!) but also America can’t talk, how many important places have you named after Washington and Columbus?
Tasmania is indeed ours, ours lonely Island state. Not so fun fact, Tasmanian Devils are endangered because they keeps biting each other’s faces off and giving each other contagious facial cancer.
There’s another internal territory no one really talks about, Jarvis Bay, it was formed mostly so the ACT could have access to a port without needing to use a state’s port.
We have 7 external territories, the main ones being the island territories of Norfolk, Cocos, and Christmas Islands.