I had a US colleague stay with me in Ireland for a week and he was asking if it was possible to catch a train to England. It’s amazing the geographic ignorance of some people and Americans seem to be especially afflicted. Maybe it’s because the USA is so big and large cities so far apart it doesn’t occur to them that Europe is not the same.

In their defense, I have no idea what the capital of Kentucky or Virginia is :/

this is starting to look like a conspiracy to make your largest city not the capital, lol

Usually this is because the capital doesn’t change over time while the relative size of cities often does, especially on the scale of a century or more.

Looking at China’s provincial capitals and EU’s capitals, they all look like they hoovered up all the population around them, why doesn’t that happen in the US? Lemme guess…car culture?