pretty sure it's France...

Missing in that picture is the single dot labeled "Amsterdam".

Amsterdam was boring, my favorite city in the Netherlands was Groningen.
- Okay, Jan Maas.

Found it funny but to be fair same goes for many europeans who have been to North America. Probably max two states in US, rarely someone who has visited Canada, etc.

Because you haven't seen the US until you visit Goshen Hole

On the other hand, “going to more places” doesn’t exactly equal more enrichment and exposure. One might be better off spending more time in fewer places and having deeper experiences there.

100% agree.
But seriously: I don't want to gatekeep anyone here either, just found this meme funny and related to cartographyanarchy community so wanted to crosspost. I know a lot of people say "ha you visited Paris? You've seen nothing", but travelling is a privilege and no one can take away your nice experiences.
Take this post as a joke, not a statement :)
But also, like you said: can't say you know a place and culture very well if you only visited a few cities and stayed a week on a continent.
Doing the UK, France and Italy in one vacation is already interesting to me
- Yeah there’s no one right way to vacation - if someone just has a week or two or three and they want to hop around more power to them.

I'm Canadian but I went to Europe twice and I must admit that I passed by Amsterdam, because my first trip was landing there and departing from there, but I only spent a few minutes visiting the city. My main goal was Germany. I spent a few days in Hamburg and Berlin.

The second trip was also in Germany, along the Rhine, and ended in Belgium. Wallonia has nice bike trails, and I must go back to visit more of the Eifel region.

Why am I "avoiding" France? Because I speak French natively, and never considered France exotic enough. I did go to Martinique and Guadeloupe though, it's closer than France, and much warmer. But I also met French people there and they suggested some places to visit in France. So now I'm planning a trip around the Bordeaux region.

However my mother thinks Europe is a country. She is always confused when I say I went to Europe and visited Germany and Belgium.

Sounds like you've had some nice trips!! I can also highly recommend Strasbourg if you visit France and go around alot - such a pretty town (a lot of those around and that's just my personal recommendation).

I know, my friends won't stop taking about Corsica and Northern Ireland.

When I went this last winter we hit up Sweden, the Netherlands, Latvia, and Estonia. Half the people we talked to when we got back didn't know what Latvia and Estonia were. Several people thought the Netherlands and Sweden share a border. Unrelated but the Hague during new years is possibly the wildest thing I've seen in my life

the Netherlands turns into a war zone during new years
- You're not wrong I was playing dodge the mortar in the streets 😅 I want to go back again next new years but I'll be bringing a lot more ppe than just earplugs
Thats a really nice list of visited countries! Hope you enjoyed some Saku in estonia!

Because you haven't seen europe properly until you visit Glod.

We traveled a lot as children. I know we saw Germany but...not sure where. I remember Holland, that has/had a place called Maduradam I think and that was cool shit as a kid. We also saw more somber stuff. We also went specially to Wales and the Welsh were baffled at this decision. It was lovely.

Sounds really nice, glad you got to see so many places. I wish to visit Wales as well someday.
- You should go, Wales is very nice. Cardiff is a cool city and the more rural areas are beautiful.

That is pretty funny, but I feel like most Americans can name more EU countries than that.