I second that. In EU countries I've lived in (a dozen), knowing European geography out of secondary school was mandatory, and I can name at least one of them (H

I second that. In EU countries I've lived in (a dozen), knowing European geography out of secondary school was mandatory, and I can name at least one of them (Hungary) where knowing the location, name and capital name of all counteies is expected to make it out of high school. In contrast, I've found it common to run into US citizens who can't place a dozen States on a map of their own country, let alone a dozen other countries on a world map. A few even had trouble naming, of all things, the two countries that the US shares land borders with.