15 famous landmarks people place in the wrong country

Some landmarks are so famous that their country fades into the background. Others are in places people simply guess wrong. Here are fifteen, with the country they are actually in.

1. Angkor Wat: Cambodia. The largest religious monument in the world, built in the 12th century. It appears on Cambodia's flag.
2. Iguazu Falls: Argentina and Brazil. The falls sit on the border, with most of the drops on the Argentine side and the widest panoramic views from Brazil.
3. Bran Castle: Romania. Marketed as "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania, although Bram Stoker never visited Romania.
4. The Great Blue Hole: Belize. A huge circular marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize, in the Lighthouse Reef atoll.
5. Borobudur: Indonesia. The world's largest Buddhist temple, on the island of Java, built in the 8th and 9th centuries.
6. Ha Long Bay: Vietnam. Thousands of limestone islands in the Gulf of Tonkin, in the north of the country.
7. The Great Mosque of Djenné: Mali. The largest mud-brick building in the world. The community replasters it every year.
8. Lake Bled: Slovenia. The lake with a church on a tiny island and a castle on a cliff, in the Julian Alps.
9. The Atomium: Belgium. A giant model of an iron crystal built for the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
10. The Little Mermaid: Denmark. A small bronze statue on the Copenhagen waterfront, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story.
11. Deadvlei: Namibia. A white clay pan with dead camel thorn trees, surrounded by some of the highest dunes in the world, in the Namib Desert.
12. The Avenue of the Baobabs: Madagascar. A row of giant baobab trees along a dirt road near Morondava, on the west coast.
13. Hassan II Mosque: Morocco. In Casablanca, partly built over the Atlantic Ocean. Its minaret is one of the tallest in the world.
14. Angel Falls: Venezuela. The highest uninterrupted waterfall on Earth, at 979 metres, dropping off a tepui in Canaima National Park.
15. The Darvaza gas crater: Turkmenistan. A burning natural gas crater in the Karakum Desert, nicknamed the "Door to Hell".

Why we mix them up

Two things trip people up. First, landmarks become symbols of a region rather than a country: Iguazu becomes "South America", Ha Long Bay becomes "Southeast Asia". Second, legends get attached to the wrong place, as with Dracula and Bran Castle.

The fix is the same as for any map fact: place it yourself. Every landmark above is a sticker in Globby, and dragging Deadvlei onto Namibia once sticks better than reading it three times.