Quote from donwresse

I'm from Austria, so I don't really had the chance to mix them up, but in foreign countries( ok, except Australia) some people don't know about it.
For Example when I was in NY once.
A:I'm from Austria.
B:Ah, Australia.
A:No, Austria.
B:Where's Austria?

It's not that it angers me or upsets me or anything it's just that I think that people should at least know that it's in Europe. It's like when people hear Wyoming and don't know that it's in the USA.

🤣 Wyoming.......oh why...but seriously, except if you are really interested in world geography, you won't know everything. Since U.S. is a country, Wyoming would be the equivalent of a department/county/region in Europe or such and not really one you'd remember 😉

I've never confused the two, but I can't say that I've had to talk about Austria since my HS geography days.

Nope! I can thank The Sound of Music for that! 😉

But I can see how people can get Austria/Australia mixed up... it's because the names look similar (our brain recognizes the first and last letters of words... there was this trippy email that was sent to me once where I could read an entire sentence but 4+ letter words had the middle letters jumbled).

I visited Salzburg and Vienna for a few days last summer, and I noticed a funny patch at a souvenir cart that said: No kangaroos in Austria. I had a double take, and it took me a good 5 seconds to understand the joke. (What happened in my head: "Huh? Why kangaroos? I don't get it... Austria doesn't have anything to do with... ahhhhh... Austria/Australia")

Oh yes... I'm from the US (southern California / LA area to be exact).

no... never...
australia=down, austria= up 🤣

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🤣 I thought I was the only one. As a kid I used to think they were the same country. Took me years to find out they were two completely different countries and on different continents too. I felt pretty silly when I found out.

Never mixed them up maybe because I'm living right next to it.

But come to think about it, I already visited Australia but never Austria... 🤢

I have to say that mixing up Austria and Australia has never been a problem for me. I'm British though so I have studied European history. Still it seems a little strange to me that people could confuse them.

I could understand it if English isn't their native tongue. I'm teaching in Japan atm and they call them Osutoraria and Osutoria, so Australia and Austria can be mixed up if I say it too fast, but that's only the word, not the countries.

I'm not big on geography but at least I know generally where pretty much every country is in the world. I couldn't exactly draw you an acurate map though.

The pen is mightier than the sword...and considerably easier to write with.

I've always been pretty good in geography...I live in Europe btw and in my language they both sound completely different so it would be pretty wierd to mix them up)..and my cousin just moved to Austria with her family so there's no way I could mix them up.