The World According to Maps From: The Washington Post | Date: November 16, 1987| Author: Robert Cwiklik | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The National Geographic Society thinks today's young people are a lost generation-geographically speaking, that is. But the society's own maps may be leading youths astray.

The society cites highly publicized results of geography quizzes: "25 percent of high school seniors in Dallas didn't know that Mexico is the country to the south of the United States." In a poll of freshmen at a Midwestern college, "95 percent could not locate Vietnam on a map of the world."

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