According to the National Geographic Society, a survey of 18- to 24-year-olds from nine nations put the United States dead last in general geographic knowledge scores. One in seven -- about 24 million people -- could not find their own country on a world map. The survey revealed that Americans possess a pathetically poor sense of where they are -- much less any knowledge about the rest of the world. And even more alarming, those who participated in the survey were recent high school and college graduates.