Where are you from? All kids in my country learn the name and position of each country in the world before they are 12 years old.

I don’t think anyone but US people got confused by those headlines. Makes sense though. When there are two places with identical names, you hear more often about the one closest to you, so that’d be your first assumption.

Some Americans can't even visually distinguish the two: https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/yikes-trum...

Where are you from? Many kids in my quite large country learn the name of 50 states and the capital city of each before they are 11.

Which has a lot to do with why that country seems to keep finding itself involved in protracted military conflicts in places which its citizens, by and large, can't find on a map.

According to many Americans, I'm from the country called Amsterdam, with the capital city of Copenhagen, where everybody speaks German.

Perhaps you're hanging around with the wrong Americans.

Maybe they taught it in grade school, I don't know. I avoided learning much of what was taught in grade/middle/high school. I didn't learn the US states and their capitals either.

Of course if I had paid attention I probably would have just learned "USSR" at the time. But maybe that makes it even less forgivable since it was current events.