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** This is likely a reference to the short lived tv show Police Squad (for which Naked Gun was based on). Even though the show took place in New York, you would frequently have backgrounds that clearly did not belong to New York City (i.e. when they are driving through "Little Italy" the background depicts the Roman Coliseum).

* In the [[Johnny Cash]] biopic ''[[Walk the Line]]'', one of the last scenes is Cash's 1968 onstage marriage proposal to June Carter, which according to the labeling took place in "Ontario, Canada". While that's technically correct, Ontario is a ''huge'' province, with an area four times greater than that of the UK, and one and a half times greater than Texas.. (In reality, it happened in ''London'', Ontario.)

* Two otherwise good war movies betray their locations: ''Dawn Patrol'' was set in Belgium but obviously filmed in Southern California (like every movie was at the time); ''Dark Blue World'' mostly takes place in southern England, but there are some conspicuous Eastern European mountains in the background of many scenes.

* Fictional example of a Geography error: in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' live-action film adaptation, Legolas proclaims "the Uruks turn northeast. They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" If the Uruks were taking the hobbits to Isengard, they would be going ''west'' (as shown in [http://www.strefarpg.pl/gfx/tworcy/middle-earth.jpg this Middle Earth Map]).

* Kenneth from ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' is said to be from Stone Mountain, Georgia. On the show, it is portrayed as being [[Deep South|a rural area]], when in fact it is a rather industrial suburb of Atlanta.

** To be fair, Kenneth has been implied several times to be [[Immortality|immortal]], so it likely ''was'' rural when he was growing up.

* It happens from time to time on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', what with teams traveling all over the world and all, but never so gloriously as in the Season 16 premiere, when Jordan, despite constantly being reminded that they were going to Chile, proceeds to request tickets to Santiago, ''China''.

* In British magician Derren Brown's one-off show ''The Gathering'' he performed a trick whereby he predicted which country somebody would think of out of all of the countries in the world. The "country" he predicted? ''Africa''. He was correct. (Is this a failure on the part of him, or the audience member?)

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