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* The "Invasion" song of ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' at one point shows a map of Europe to showcase all the countries Germany invaded. The map itself resembles something more akin to what you would get in a Creator/ParadoxInteractive title . Some gems include:
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* The "Invasion" song of ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' at one point shows a map of Europe to showcase all the countries Germany invaded. invaded during the World Wars. The map itself resembles something more akin to what you would get in a Creator/ParadoxInteractive title .title. Some gems include:
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** In "The Bart Wants What It Wants" the family travels to UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. However, their [[CanadaEh depiction]] is absolutely abysmal; the biggest goof of the episode was depicting the C.N. Tower as being in the middle of a field... anyone who has ever been to Toronto could correct that.
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** In "The Bart Wants What It Wants" the family travels to UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. However, their [[CanadaEh depiction]] depiction is absolutely abysmal; the biggest goof of the episode was depicting the C.N. Tower as being in the middle of a field... anyone who has ever been to Toronto could correct that.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E38BySledOrSnowshoeTheShortestBirthday By Sled or Snowshoe]]," Molly gets the chance to see an erupting volcano. Given Qyah's location so close to Nenana in the Alaska interior, the closest volcanic fields to Qyah are Jumbo Dome and Buzzard Creek, northeast of Healy. Both are dormant. The only active effusive volcanoes in Alaska are on the coasts or islands.
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** Portugal having no border with Spain, meaning it's a part of it.
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* The "Invasion" song of ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' at one point shows a map of Europe to showcase all the countries Germany invaded. The map itself resembles something more akin to what you would get in a Creator/ParadoxInteractive title . Some gems include:
** Switzerland being placed practically on Italy's north-eastern side... almost on the Mediterranean.
** Portugal having no border with Spain, meaning it's a part of it.
** Berlin being placed ''in Poland''
** "The Germans invaded the Netherlands" verse is accompanied by an arrow pointing to Belgium.
** Greece is apparently nowhere to be found
** Yugoslavia is [[BalkanizeMe already broken up.]]
** Switzerland being placed practically on Italy's north-eastern side... almost on the Mediterranean.
** Portugal having no border with Spain, meaning it's a part of it.
** Berlin being placed ''in Poland''
** "The Germans invaded the Netherlands" verse is accompanied by an arrow pointing to Belgium.
** Greece is apparently nowhere to be found
** Yugoslavia is [[BalkanizeMe already broken up.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** The song [[ListSong "Yakko's World"]], ostensibly listing all of the countries in the world, makes some errors:
*** It leaves out several countries, such as UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and UsefulNotes/BurkinaFaso.
*** [[UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK As is traditional]], the song messes up the UK completely by listing UsefulNotes/{{England}}, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. It should either list England, Scotland, UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland and the Republic of Ireland, or just the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom and the Republic of Ireland. And possibly adding Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, depending on the definition of 'country'.
*** The song mentions UsefulNotes/{{Greenland}}, UsefulNotes/PuertoRico, UsefulNotes/{{Guam}}, and UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana, which are not countries in their own right but instead are constituent territories of UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates, and UsefulNotes/{{France}} respectively.
*** The song, which first aired in 1993, also includes several [[PleaseSelectNewCityName outdated place or country names]]: Dahomey has been known as UsefulNotes/{{Benin}} since 1975 and Kampuchea reverted back to UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} in 1979.
** The 50 states and capitals song:
*** The animation that goes with it is really fucked up. Many of the states are the wrong shapes in some shots (but correct in others), such as the ones bordered by the Missouri River, which are shown as having a straight north-south border. Iowa, in particular, is unrecognizable, with the eastern "nose" and southeastern "arm" missing.
*** Despite its name and theme, the song includes Washington D.C., which is the federal capital, not a state capital.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'' tends to set itself in locations that actually exist, but at the same time tends to ignore the actual travel times. The episode "Easy Riders and Raging Dinos" has the kids driving to places in excess of 400 miles away from their hometown (Kittery Point, UsefulNotes/{{Maine}} to Lancaster, UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}}, and Niagara Falls) like they're going to the next town over.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' animated special ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland Dreamland]]'' opens with an establishing shot of the "[[http://www.sfreporter.com/uploads/2009/11/drwho_roswell.JPG New Mexico Desert, June 13, 1947]]". Aside from the roadsign itself being an AnachronismStew (due to neither the style of sign, nor Interstate routes, existing in 1947), it places the (not-yet-existent) I-25 within "35m"[[note]]modern US roadsigns either spell out "MILES" in all-caps, or have no unit indicated as miles are assumed; the lower-case "m" shown is used to indicate ''meters''[[/note]] of Roswell. The real-life I-25, built along the path of US Route 85 (which ''did'' exist in 1947), runs over a hundred miles west of Roswell.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' special where she travels the world, Dora can spot UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} by from where she's standing in UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} by looking directly behind her.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In one episode, Brian and Stewie visit UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, and drive in a tour-bus past Munich's [[http://tourismus.meinestadt.de/images/image.php?origin=gallery&id=185325&type=O Old Town Hall]], the [[http://www.mission-base.com/pictures/0404munich/big/muenchen-sendlinger-tor.jpg Sendlinger Tor]] and the [[http://www.mission-base.com/pictures/0404munich/big/muenchen-mariensaeule.jpg Mariensäule]], which are all presented next to each other on a medieval intersection. This couldn't be further from the truth -- not only are there hardly any truly medieval buildings left in Munich, but the Mariensäule is in front of the ''new'' Town Hall building [[http://www.tropicalisland.de/germany/bavaria/munich/images/MUC%20Munich%20-%20Marienplatz%20with%20Old%20Town%20Hall%20and%20Mariens%E4ule%20or%20column%20of%20the%20Virgin%20Mary%20at%20its%20center%203008x2000.jpg a hundred meters away from the old one]] (and all three buildings are on the central Marienplatz square, not on some intersection), while the Sendlinger Tor is almost an entire kilometer away from the Marienplatz. Obviously, Family Guy's Munich was just a setpiece for yet another 'AllGermansAreNazis' joke. [[DudeNotFunny Some Germans actually took offense to that]].
** ''Family Guy'' is also inconsistent in showing the correct shape of UsefulNotes/RhodeIsland, despite the fact the show is set there and [[Creator/SethMacFarlane its creator]] went to college in Providence. Some maps [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/5/5c/Newport.png/ are pretty close to reality]] with only some minor inconsistencies, while others - as in the ''Animaniacs'' example above, forget to include islands in Narragansett Bay, annex chunks of UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} or make the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/e/e2/Rhode_Island.png east of the state]] much bulkier than it actually is.
** "Road to the North Pole", like most Christmas movies taking place at the North Pole, depicts it as on land and having a normal day and night cycle. The northernmost point of land is in Greenland at about 83.66 degrees north (read: 6.33 degrees south of the North Pole) and wouldn't experience daylight (or even twilight, for that matter) around the Winter Solstice.
* In the DirectToVideo ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' special ''Back to School with Franklin'', when Miss Koala points out where UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} is to the kids with a globe. Apparently, southern UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}} has ceased to exist on their version of Earth.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Mickey's Rival Returns", Mickey is flung into the sky by popped volleyball where you can see a few states which are labeled... completely wrong. For example, UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} has UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} written on it, and UsefulNotes/NewMexico is labeled as UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' episode "Wambini Predicts", Gadget goes to "[[{{Qurac}} Alpakistan]]", where there are diamond-spitting llamas. Llamas and alpacas are from South America, only camels are found in the Middle East.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "The Mummies of Malenque," the Quest team goes on a trip to the South American country of "Columbia." The country's name is spelled "UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}". "Columbia" is a poetic name for all of the Americas, and often specifically the USA.
* In "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', a tourist guy and some visitors are able to see UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} from UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}}, which is impossible since Argentina is bordered by UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} at the south (even if they ''were'' in Chile, they still wouldn't be able to see it).
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', [[spoiler: the Thanagarians are building a [[BlatantLies planetary force field]] on the great Gobi desert, which covers part of UsefulNotes/{{China}} and UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}}. However, we later the see that it's located in North Africa, in the Sahara desert (you can spot it on Batman's monitor during the ColonyDrop)]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Uh Oh Canada" depicts Boomhauer meeting up with a French-speaker in Guelph, Ontario, very improbable in real life, and them kayaking with mountains in the background. As anyone who has been to Ontario will tell you, mountains are nowhere to be found in the province, especially not in Guelph.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': In "Dethwater", Nathan Explosion states he wants to record the new album in the deepest, blackest part of the ocean: the Marianas Trench (near the Marianas Islands in the Pacific Ocean). However on a globe, he points to a spot just southwest of UsefulNotes/{{Portugal}} (almost on the other side of the world). Somewhat justified, as the members of Dethklok are very often shown to be varying degrees of BookDumb.
* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' entitled "Fortune Cookie Caper" is set in New York City and, apart from it being a strange, alternate-universe New York that has neither traffic nor parallel-parked cars (and where there are rickshaws in its HollywoodAtlas Chinatown), the plot relies on street addresses that turn out to be clues. All of the addresses are impossible and would send anyone seeking them deep underwater in either the Hudson or the East River, as Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Mister_T/Fortune_Cookie_Caper.aspx had some fun pointing out.]] It would be one thing if it were just code, but actual buildings are shown with the addresses in question.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the Mayor give the geographic coordinates of Townsville (the intersection of Lincoln and Main, specifically) as 32 degrees north, 212 degrees west. Degrees of latitude and longitude only go up to 180, but even if you wrap around the globe past that mark, going 212 degrees west of the Prime Meridian puts you in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. Of course, this was likely deliberate to avoid pinpointing any specific place and having to deal with the repercussions of that.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Wimp on the Barby" has [[GlobalIgnorance Heffer mistaking Austria for Australia]]. While that part can be explained by the fact that [[TheDitz Heffer is an idiot]], the globe he uses has a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}-like continent being labelled as UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}; Austria itself is landlocked and not a particularly large country. Also, UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} (south of Europe) and UsefulNotes/{{Asia}} (east of Europe) are nowhere to be seen on the globe.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'''s "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam" mislocates the [[UsefulNotes/{{India}} Indian]] city of Jaipur as being in UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, and has it ruled by a pasha (the monarch was historically styled as a maharaja, and had no political power by the 1960s).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The creators claim they often do a lot of research before they sent the family to another country. Yet they like to make use of stereotypes and intended mistakes, excused by the RuleOfFunny. This makes it easy for less intelligent viewers to decide that these mistakes are really ignorant blunders rather than simply intended to be that way.
** In "Itchy & Scratchy Land" the Simpsons stop by the five-corners monument, the location where (apparently) five state borders touch. This, of course, happens precisely nowhere in the USA (the closest thing to it is the ''Four'' Corners Monument, where UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}, UsefulNotes/NewMexico, and UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} meet).
** In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", Homer reaches the top of the (original 2 World Trade Center) South Tower and discovers the men's restroom is out of order. He has to travel back down to the ground, run across the plaza and go up the (original 1 WTC) North Tower. When he gets to the summit, the North Tower's 360 ft.-tall TV antenna is noticeably missing. It's worth noting because all other shots of the roof in this episode show it. This could also be considered a goof by the animators.
** In "The Bart Wants What It Wants" the family travels to UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. However, their [[CanadaEh depiction]] is absolutely abysmal; the biggest goof of the episode was depicting the C.N. Tower as being in the middle of a field... anyone who has ever been to Toronto could correct that.
** In "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" several Japanese landmarks are depicted being within a short distance of one another.
** "The Regina Monologues" acts as if the United Kingdom still has the death penalty, which is acted out in a medieval fashion by ordering beheading in The Tower Of London. The same episode also features a secret tunnel from the Tower of London -- which comes out in the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, which in reality is some five miles away (and was built several ''centuries'' later than the Tower of London).
** In "Blame it on Lisa", Homer is kidnapped in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}. The kidnappers take Homer from UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro to the Amazon's Rainforest and back to Rio for the ransom during the same day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon Rainforest are more than 4200km (roughly 2600 miles) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life. It would've made more sense for the kidnappers to keep Homer in captivity around Rio, specifically in some favelas where the police hardly enters.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E3MedicinalFriedChicken Medicinal Fried Chicken]]" features Cartman visiting [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken KFC's]] original home of Corbin, Kentucky to visit with Colonel Sanders. Corbin, a small town on the western edge of UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, is depicted as being in a tropical rain forest. {{Justified|Trope}} by the RuleOfFunny, as the scene parodies a key plot point from the 1983 version of ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'', an extremely huge lake has somehow formed in the mid-west of the US. There actually ''was'' a large inland sea in the midwest of the USA during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million years ago, in which case their map is a little outdated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s "Celebrity Manhunt Special" the gang travels from [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]] to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and somehow get lost in a desert with a nuclear testing site (Trinity Site is in UsefulNotes/NewMexico, if you are wondering.)
* The ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "The Getaway" has the spies going to a volcano research lab in UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}, which is covered in ice and snow, but it's actually Greenland that's covered in ice; Iceland is actually pretty temperate considering its location ''just'' below the Arctic Circle.
* In "Friends in the City" from ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'', Toot and Puddle visit the Statue of Liberty on the final boat of the day and observe it amidst a beautiful sky filled with stars. But given the bright lights of New York City, that shouldn't be possible, and the version of New York City that they visit appears to be just as filled with tall buildings that would surely be lit up at night.
* The geographic sins of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live-action movies]] are bad enough, but [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Europa_2000 was much worse.]] The link is to a [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] page, including both an incredibly erroneous map of Europe and a comprehensive list of what is wrong with it, and a list of what historical and political events would have had to occur to alter the map such.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Days of Future Past, Part 2," Gambit travels to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC But the monitor shows the ''state'' of UsefulNotes/{{Washington}} (with Washington, D.C. captioned right below).
** The song [[ListSong "Yakko's World"]], ostensibly listing all of the countries in the world, makes some errors:
*** It leaves out several countries, such as UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica and UsefulNotes/BurkinaFaso.
*** [[UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK As is traditional]], the song messes up the UK completely by listing UsefulNotes/{{England}}, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}, and UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. It should either list England, Scotland, UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland and the Republic of Ireland, or just the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom and the Republic of Ireland. And possibly adding Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, depending on the definition of 'country'.
*** The song mentions UsefulNotes/{{Greenland}}, UsefulNotes/PuertoRico, UsefulNotes/{{Guam}}, and UsefulNotes/FrenchGuiana, which are not countries in their own right but instead are constituent territories of UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates, and UsefulNotes/{{France}} respectively.
*** The song, which first aired in 1993, also includes several [[PleaseSelectNewCityName outdated place or country names]]: Dahomey has been known as UsefulNotes/{{Benin}} since 1975 and Kampuchea reverted back to UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} in 1979.
** The 50 states and capitals song:
*** The animation that goes with it is really fucked up. Many of the states are the wrong shapes in some shots (but correct in others), such as the ones bordered by the Missouri River, which are shown as having a straight north-south border. Iowa, in particular, is unrecognizable, with the eastern "nose" and southeastern "arm" missing.
*** Despite its name and theme, the song includes Washington D.C., which is the federal capital, not a state capital.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'' tends to set itself in locations that actually exist, but at the same time tends to ignore the actual travel times. The episode "Easy Riders and Raging Dinos" has the kids driving to places in excess of 400 miles away from their hometown (Kittery Point, UsefulNotes/{{Maine}} to Lancaster, UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}}, and Niagara Falls) like they're going to the next town over.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' animated special ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland Dreamland]]'' opens with an establishing shot of the "[[http://www.sfreporter.com/uploads/2009/11/drwho_roswell.JPG New Mexico Desert, June 13, 1947]]". Aside from the roadsign itself being an AnachronismStew (due to neither the style of sign, nor Interstate routes, existing in 1947), it places the (not-yet-existent) I-25 within "35m"[[note]]modern US roadsigns either spell out "MILES" in all-caps, or have no unit indicated as miles are assumed; the lower-case "m" shown is used to indicate ''meters''[[/note]] of Roswell. The real-life I-25, built along the path of US Route 85 (which ''did'' exist in 1947), runs over a hundred miles west of Roswell.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' special where she travels the world, Dora can spot UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} by from where she's standing in UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} by looking directly behind her.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In one episode, Brian and Stewie visit UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, and drive in a tour-bus past Munich's [[http://tourismus.meinestadt.de/images/image.php?origin=gallery&id=185325&type=O Old Town Hall]], the [[http://www.mission-base.com/pictures/0404munich/big/muenchen-sendlinger-tor.jpg Sendlinger Tor]] and the [[http://www.mission-base.com/pictures/0404munich/big/muenchen-mariensaeule.jpg Mariensäule]], which are all presented next to each other on a medieval intersection. This couldn't be further from the truth -- not only are there hardly any truly medieval buildings left in Munich, but the Mariensäule is in front of the ''new'' Town Hall building [[http://www.tropicalisland.de/germany/bavaria/munich/images/MUC%20Munich%20-%20Marienplatz%20with%20Old%20Town%20Hall%20and%20Mariens%E4ule%20or%20column%20of%20the%20Virgin%20Mary%20at%20its%20center%203008x2000.jpg a hundred meters away from the old one]] (and all three buildings are on the central Marienplatz square, not on some intersection), while the Sendlinger Tor is almost an entire kilometer away from the Marienplatz. Obviously, Family Guy's Munich was just a setpiece for yet another 'AllGermansAreNazis' joke. [[DudeNotFunny Some Germans actually took offense to that]].
** ''Family Guy'' is also inconsistent in showing the correct shape of UsefulNotes/RhodeIsland, despite the fact the show is set there and [[Creator/SethMacFarlane its creator]] went to college in Providence. Some maps [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/5/5c/Newport.png/ are pretty close to reality]] with only some minor inconsistencies, while others - as in the ''Animaniacs'' example above, forget to include islands in Narragansett Bay, annex chunks of UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} or make the [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/familyguy/images/e/e2/Rhode_Island.png east of the state]] much bulkier than it actually is.
** "Road to the North Pole", like most Christmas movies taking place at the North Pole, depicts it as on land and having a normal day and night cycle. The northernmost point of land is in Greenland at about 83.66 degrees north (read: 6.33 degrees south of the North Pole) and wouldn't experience daylight (or even twilight, for that matter) around the Winter Solstice.
* In the DirectToVideo ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' special ''Back to School with Franklin'', when Miss Koala points out where UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} is to the kids with a globe. Apparently, southern UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}} has ceased to exist on their version of Earth.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Mickey's Rival Returns", Mickey is flung into the sky by popped volleyball where you can see a few states which are labeled... completely wrong. For example, UsefulNotes/{{Nevada}} has UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} written on it, and UsefulNotes/NewMexico is labeled as UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' episode "Wambini Predicts", Gadget goes to "[[{{Qurac}} Alpakistan]]", where there are diamond-spitting llamas. Llamas and alpacas are from South America, only camels are found in the Middle East.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "The Mummies of Malenque," the Quest team goes on a trip to the South American country of "Columbia." The country's name is spelled "UsefulNotes/{{Colombia}}". "Columbia" is a poetic name for all of the Americas, and often specifically the USA.
* In "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', a tourist guy and some visitors are able to see UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} from UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}}, which is impossible since Argentina is bordered by UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} at the south (even if they ''were'' in Chile, they still wouldn't be able to see it).
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', [[spoiler: the Thanagarians are building a [[BlatantLies planetary force field]] on the great Gobi desert, which covers part of UsefulNotes/{{China}} and UsefulNotes/{{Mongolia}}. However, we later the see that it's located in North Africa, in the Sahara desert (you can spot it on Batman's monitor during the ColonyDrop)]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Uh Oh Canada" depicts Boomhauer meeting up with a French-speaker in Guelph, Ontario, very improbable in real life, and them kayaking with mountains in the background. As anyone who has been to Ontario will tell you, mountains are nowhere to be found in the province, especially not in Guelph.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': In "Dethwater", Nathan Explosion states he wants to record the new album in the deepest, blackest part of the ocean: the Marianas Trench (near the Marianas Islands in the Pacific Ocean). However on a globe, he points to a spot just southwest of UsefulNotes/{{Portugal}} (almost on the other side of the world). Somewhat justified, as the members of Dethklok are very often shown to be varying degrees of BookDumb.
* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' entitled "Fortune Cookie Caper" is set in New York City and, apart from it being a strange, alternate-universe New York that has neither traffic nor parallel-parked cars (and where there are rickshaws in its HollywoodAtlas Chinatown), the plot relies on street addresses that turn out to be clues. All of the addresses are impossible and would send anyone seeking them deep underwater in either the Hudson or the East River, as Website/TheAgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Mister_T/Fortune_Cookie_Caper.aspx had some fun pointing out.]] It would be one thing if it were just code, but actual buildings are shown with the addresses in question.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the Mayor give the geographic coordinates of Townsville (the intersection of Lincoln and Main, specifically) as 32 degrees north, 212 degrees west. Degrees of latitude and longitude only go up to 180, but even if you wrap around the globe past that mark, going 212 degrees west of the Prime Meridian puts you in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. Of course, this was likely deliberate to avoid pinpointing any specific place and having to deal with the repercussions of that.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Wimp on the Barby" has [[GlobalIgnorance Heffer mistaking Austria for Australia]]. While that part can be explained by the fact that [[TheDitz Heffer is an idiot]], the globe he uses has a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}-like continent being labelled as UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}; Austria itself is landlocked and not a particularly large country. Also, UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} (south of Europe) and UsefulNotes/{{Asia}} (east of Europe) are nowhere to be seen on the globe.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'''s "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam" mislocates the [[UsefulNotes/{{India}} Indian]] city of Jaipur as being in UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}, and has it ruled by a pasha (the monarch was historically styled as a maharaja, and had no political power by the 1960s).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The creators claim they often do a lot of research before they sent the family to another country. Yet they like to make use of stereotypes and intended mistakes, excused by the RuleOfFunny. This makes it easy for less intelligent viewers to decide that these mistakes are really ignorant blunders rather than simply intended to be that way.
** In "Itchy & Scratchy Land" the Simpsons stop by the five-corners monument, the location where (apparently) five state borders touch. This, of course, happens precisely nowhere in the USA (the closest thing to it is the ''Four'' Corners Monument, where UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, UsefulNotes/{{Colorado}}, UsefulNotes/NewMexico, and UsefulNotes/{{Utah}} meet).
** In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", Homer reaches the top of the (original 2 World Trade Center) South Tower and discovers the men's restroom is out of order. He has to travel back down to the ground, run across the plaza and go up the (original 1 WTC) North Tower. When he gets to the summit, the North Tower's 360 ft.-tall TV antenna is noticeably missing. It's worth noting because all other shots of the roof in this episode show it. This could also be considered a goof by the animators.
** In "The Bart Wants What It Wants" the family travels to UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}. However, their [[CanadaEh depiction]] is absolutely abysmal; the biggest goof of the episode was depicting the C.N. Tower as being in the middle of a field... anyone who has ever been to Toronto could correct that.
** In "30 Minutes Over Tokyo" several Japanese landmarks are depicted being within a short distance of one another.
** "The Regina Monologues" acts as if the United Kingdom still has the death penalty, which is acted out in a medieval fashion by ordering beheading in The Tower Of London. The same episode also features a secret tunnel from the Tower of London -- which comes out in the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, which in reality is some five miles away (and was built several ''centuries'' later than the Tower of London).
** In "Blame it on Lisa", Homer is kidnapped in UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}}. The kidnappers take Homer from UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro to the Amazon's Rainforest and back to Rio for the ransom during the same day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon Rainforest are more than 4200km (roughly 2600 miles) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life. It would've made more sense for the kidnappers to keep Homer in captivity around Rio, specifically in some favelas where the police hardly enters.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E3MedicinalFriedChicken Medicinal Fried Chicken]]" features Cartman visiting [[UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken KFC's]] original home of Corbin, Kentucky to visit with Colonel Sanders. Corbin, a small town on the western edge of UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, is depicted as being in a tropical rain forest. {{Justified|Trope}} by the RuleOfFunny, as the scene parodies a key plot point from the 1983 version of ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'', an extremely huge lake has somehow formed in the mid-west of the US. There actually ''was'' a large inland sea in the midwest of the USA during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million years ago, in which case their map is a little outdated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'''s "Celebrity Manhunt Special" the gang travels from [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Ontario]] to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and somehow get lost in a desert with a nuclear testing site (Trinity Site is in UsefulNotes/NewMexico, if you are wondering.)
* The ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "The Getaway" has the spies going to a volcano research lab in UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}, which is covered in ice and snow, but it's actually Greenland that's covered in ice; Iceland is actually pretty temperate considering its location ''just'' below the Arctic Circle.
* In "Friends in the City" from ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'', Toot and Puddle visit the Statue of Liberty on the final boat of the day and observe it amidst a beautiful sky filled with stars. But given the bright lights of New York City, that shouldn't be possible, and the version of New York City that they visit appears to be just as filled with tall buildings that would surely be lit up at night.
* The geographic sins of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries live-action movies]] are bad enough, but [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the original cartoon]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Europa_2000 was much worse.]] The link is to a [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] page, including both an incredibly erroneous map of Europe and a comprehensive list of what is wrong with it, and a list of what historical and political events would have had to occur to alter the map such.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Days of Future Past, Part 2," Gambit travels to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC But the monitor shows the ''state'' of UsefulNotes/{{Washington}} (with Washington, D.C. captioned right below).
