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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
"New Mexico USA" - Gee, that's just like "New/Nouveau Brunswick Canada"
I presume in New Mexico's case, this is to differentiate itself from "old" Mexico (the country to the south)
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For New Mexico, apparently, the name existed before the country of Mexico existed, if Wikipedia is correct, even as far back as the 1500s.
Mexico was the land of the Aztec (Mexica) Empire, as encountered by the Spanish, and New Mexico was used for the lands farther away from that area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico#Etymology
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
If you're an American - absolutely!!!
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Originally Posted by Andy6
In academia, “New Brunswick” means Rutgers. Generally, Americans know a couple of Canadian provinces tops (usually Quebec and B.C. - they’ve probably also heard of Saskatchewan because it sounds comical, but wouldn’t know if it is a province or a town). The foregoing doesn’t change for people high up the education ladder, in my experience.
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It seems like even really educated Americans seem rather unfamiliar with Canadian geography. I've met Americans with PhD's ranging from engineering to sociology, but yet who aren't aware of where Toronto and Montreal are located on a map of Canada, or who can't really name any Canadian provinces any more than they could name provinces of say, China, or something.