Dear @washingtonpost: Three of the US's aircraft carriers have their home port within 12 miles of the border with #Mexico (in #SanDiego). Entering "waters near #LatinAmerica" is not the story here. Did you mean #SouthAmerica?

#geography #geographyfail #factcheck #Venezuela

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Uganda Adventure: Official Hints at Unexpected Exit Plan

#Satire #BreakingNews #GeographyFail #DeportationDrama #UgandaBound By: TheJestPress.com **Kilmar Abrego Garcia Could Be Deported to Uganda, Official Says, Because Apparently Geography Is Just a Suggestion Now** In what experts are calling “either a bureaucratic masterstroke or the result of binge-watching Game of Thrones while spinning a globe,” local man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/08/23/kilmar-abrego-garcias-uganda-adventure-official-hints-at-unexpected-exit-plan/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Me: "Hi! Where are you from?"
Them: "I'm from America."
Me: "Oh, Brazil... or the USA?"
Them: "America is the USA."
Me: "Oh, I thought America was a continent.

#GeographyFail #CulturalDifferences #AmericaVsUSA #ContinentalConfusion #GlobalPerspectives #LostInTranslation #GeographyMatters #AmericanContinent #USCitizen #WorldGeography #CulturalExchange #LanguageBarrier #TravelTalks #DidYouKnow #FunnyConversation

US Rethinks Borders, Sends Immigrants to Eswatini Instead of Home

#Satire #USImmigration #GeographyFail #BreakingNews #EswatiniOrBust By: TheJestPress.com In a bold and wildly inventive move this week, U.S. immigration officials have deported dozens of immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and various other countries—not to their homelands, but instead to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini. The plan was reportedly inspired by “a really confusing episode of Jeopardy” and a…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/16/us-rethinks-borders-sends-immigrants-to-eswatini-instead-of-home/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

“Chernivtsi’s Newest Attraction: Explosions Light Up the Western Border!”

#Satire #BreakingNews #Chernivtsi #GeographyFail #DramaticMisunderstandings By: TheJestPress.com **Explosion Rocks Chernivtsi, Startles Global Cartographers Who Thought It Was Somewhere Else Entirely** In an explosive turn of events that has shaken the world—and Google Maps—a loud “booming” noise was reported earlier today in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. While initial reports…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/12/chernivtsis-newest-attraction-explosions-light-up-the-western-border/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Is the Syria-Jordan border straight or wiggly? An @openstreetmap user reckons the latter and that has propagated through to many media that use OSM.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=GQW-5nrMDM_rjuYc&v=OAM9zw1eMPs&feature=youtu.be

[Edit: see reply about resolution https://mastodon.social/@infeeeee/113777626151255884]

#InternationalBorders #GeographyFail #Syria #Jordan #Maps #Cartography #OpenStreetMap #Wikis

The Washington Post apparently thinks #India is in the Southern Hemisphere, and that the Southern Hemisphere has a "hotter and wetter climate" 🤦

https://washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/air-conditioning-humidity-hotter-summers-solutions/

#geography #geographyfail #editor #editing @geography