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The same people likely couldn't point out a lot of other 'big' countries/continents or even US states, so I don't see what that argument proves.

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My point is that TV news caters to the lowest common denominator of brains so they aren't going to tell everyone about a country they can't locate on a map. That is of course, unless, there are "terrorists" there, or Israel is involved.