I would say genpop is around 25%, bachelor's maybe 40%, advanced degrees 55-60%.
Edit: still disappointed.
Edit 2: Gender, party identification, and age breakdowns are really surprising.
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The people who pointed to Occupied Korea should also have counted as correct tbh
points right at Seoul
"...Okay, so can you point to China next?"
points at Taiwan 
diplomatic and nonmilitary strategies more favorably than those who could not. These strategies included imposing further economic sanctions, increasing pressure on China to influence North Korea and conducting cyberattacks against military targets in North Korea.
Absolute fucking scum bag journalist. In what world are cyberattacks on military targets and economic sanctions "diplomatic"? It goes to show how the western mind genuinely cannot see "enemies" as humans and thinks nothing of inflicting harm upon them.
This journalist should be shot. And so do all the people who want more sanctions.
There's been a study in the Lancet about how unilateral sanctions cause comparable deaths to bombing the country. A key finding was that this only goes for the kind of sanctions imposed by the US that specifically aim for cutting the population off from food, medical supplies etc. to stoke unrest and incite regime change, not for the kind of sanctions that are used by the UN, which specifically exclude goods the people need for their survival.
US sanctions are designed to be an act of siege warfare.
What drives these differences? Simple partisanship is one possibility. On average, Republicans – and Republican men in particular – were more likely to correctly locate North Korea than Democratic men. And Republicans were more likely to be in favor of almost all the diplomatic solutions posed by the researchers. (Women tended to find North Korea at similar rates, regardless of party.)
I'm sure I've posted about this before, but back when I was in like 7th grade and people would talk about North/South Korea I could never remember where they were on the map so I just mentally put them where the British isles are. Like I knew that's not where they actually were, but I needed a place to put them and I guess that just fit well in my head
stupid poll though
get a look at this hitlerism
also note that this poll is from 2017 or earlier.
the fact that they group 'sending arms and supplies' together... yeah yeah obviously sending food and fuel to a country under sanctions is the same as giving them more nukes 
If I had to draw any conclusion I would say that the people who could not find it were likely to randomly pick another country and also likely to just have a random opinion on North Korea which explains both why they're more likely to be pro-military intervention and more likely to want to do nothing whereas the people who could find North Korea are more likely to just tow the party line on it which is the current status quo of sanctions.
Surveyor when they hear I support sending arms and supplies: 
I assumed way worse, like, half the actual correct percentage. That said? The map with all the guesses on it is incredible.
The yankee mind is an enigma.
And that map is just focused on East Asia, imagine if it were a world map.
I reminded of a bit I saw on something a long time ago where a guy identified Australia as North Korea and I think New Zealand as South Korea and then surprised himself by talking about how much bigger North Korea was compared to South Korea.
Sadly our knowledge of Juche in Australia is far behind the DPRK. 
70%
FUCK MY BALLS COME ON IT'S EASY IT'S ON A PENINSULA AND EVERYTHING
I didn't see in the article, but I would be interested to know what the breakout of actual degrees sampled was.
I can locate most countries without labeling (perhaps some countries like Uzbekistan I would struggle with), but I do think there is an issue with this statement describing Americans:
is the geographically most illiterate society of consequence on the planet, at a time when United States power can affect countries and peoples around the world.
This presumes that the US should affect countries and peoples around the world. It also assumes that the American people have an interest or direct authority in decisions regarding these places. They do not.
Also assumes map knowledge correlates with being "good decision maker". Being able to find Iran on a map shouldn't give you the voice to say whether or not we bomb them.
Like if a farm worker in 1932 said we should go kill Hitler but couldn't find Germany on a map; they would have been a better decision maker then any of the slop (now or) then running America.
The US cultural and education system is meant to keep us deadened and stupid to the world around us. While I agree in abstract geographical knowledge shouldn’t matter, in this case it is a sign that a person is investigating and learning beyond the background milieu. It doesn’t mean they have good opinions to be clear, just that they have thoughts beyond what the TV tells them to think.
12%, 14%
I was too pessimistic!!
31% and 37% respectively, though I'm also guessing I'm being comically generous to the average yank's intelligence
edit: Huh, I undershot it, but i wasn't too far off
At this point higher education has just become a means of gatekeeping office/email jobs (representing the ‘don’t be an asshole’ group) while not giving the tens of thousands to a land speculator doubling as a school puts you on the ‘don’t be a pussy’ group. In the end, it’s a lot of fake jobs to keep consumption going. In the US of course.
25% and 27%. I was actually way off. I guess it isn't too hard to find Korea and then the northern half of it.
Guessing 5% and 8%
I just threw 30% at the wall.
I'm honestly relieved I got it right. Thought I'd need to turn in my "international geopolitics understander" card.
I guessed the percent exactly lol.
I don't really mind that people are bad at geography. What blows my mind is the people guessing South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and India. It's called North Korea, why are you guessing it's on the southern tip of the continent?