Why are people so bad at maps and geography?

I am pretty good with these things, and it just blows my mind how many people are downright awful at it.

My buddies and I were going to a bachelor trip in Biloxi. One of the wives said “why don’t y’all go somewhere out of state?”. We said Biloxi is out of state; it’s not in Louisiana. She was quite surprised by that.

Also, I like to use street names when I give directions because I know the names of most of the streets in town. This usually proves to be completely useless because apparently no one knows the names of any streets or highways that they drive on. I’ll use a street name, and I typically get hesitation, a puzzled look on their face, and the question “where is that???”. I’m starting to give up on using street names or highway names at all.

Thirdly, if I ask someone to locate a city or a state on the map, they usually have no idea where it is.

It just perplexes me how people can be so ignorant of geography and maps. It’s quite frustrating.