<i>Half of Brits think Everest is in UK!</i>

British geography teachers may wish to look away now. Half of the British adults think that Everest - in the Himalayas is the UK's tallest mountain, according to new research.
In the survey of 2,000 people, 20.6 per cent could not list England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as the four countries comprising the United Kingdom.
And many thought Stonehenge, a well-known heritage site in UK, heritage was a foreign site.
Many experts believe that advances in technology and the easy availability of online search engines that provide instant answers to any question anywhere, any time, means people now don't need to store geographical information like they did before the internet.