--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Asks If Americans Can Find North Korea On A Map description: Jimmy Kimmel gave Americans a pop geography quiz and it didn't go very well canonical: https://time.com/4893267/jimmy-kimmel-where-is-north-korea/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-09T19:19:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:16.434Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Asks If Americans Can Find North Korea On a Map og:description: The results are completely cringe inducing og:url: https://time.com/4893267/jimmy-kimmel-where-is-north-korea/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt453485d8ef683c39/6988d915e76ad23adf62ea8b/northkorea.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1451 og:image:height: 816 og:image:alt: NorthKorea og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Asks If Americans Can Find North Korea On a Map twitter:description: The results are completely cringe inducing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt453485d8ef683c39/6988d915e76ad23adf62ea8b/northkorea.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Asked American Citizens to Locate North Korea. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=fe54ab8b-5142-4689-9b79-46dd55df2e39&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 9, 2017 7:19 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 9, 2017 7:19 PM UTC Over the last few days, U.S. President Donald Trump and Korean leader Kim Jong Un have been engaged in a [heated exchange of escalating threats](http://time.com/4892102/donald-trump-north-korea-news/) leaving some Americans on edge about the [range of North Korea’s missiles](http://time.com/4891858/north-korea-nuclear-missiles/)—even if they don’t exactly know where North Korea is located. “[North Korea](http://time.com/4892879/guam-north-korea-strike/) is the bigly story of the day, if not the year,” said Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ “But what I wonder is, how many Americans even know where North Korea is?” To answer that important question, Kimmel sent out a crew to Los Angeles’ Hollywood Boulevard to give average Americans a geography pop quiz and the results are downright cringe-worthy. Kimmel’s team started the quiz by asking whether or not the United States should take military action if [North Korea becomes a real threat](http://time.com/4892492/donald-trump-john-mccain-north-korea-nuclear-threat/) to U.S. safety and most people they asked said yes. Then, those same individuals were asked to locate North Korea on a map—and that’s where it all got a bit embarrassing. People guessed that North Korea was located everywhere from Australia to the Middle East with one person, who was admittedly “horrible at geography”, suggesting that North Korea was located in Canada. Watch below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4893267/jimmy-kimmel-where-is-north-korea/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4893267/jimmy-kimmel-where-is-north-korea/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Asked American Citizens to Locate North Korea. 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