Guess the Map 12: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Mercator

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Okay, I'll resolve, and declare @Angst the winner.

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This map is taken from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
Red: Countries which celebrate labour day on May 1.
Green: Countries which celebrate labour day on a different day
Yellow: Another holiday is on May 1.

Some of the countries which were brought up:
Britan is yellow: Apparently Britain has a moving holiday which doesn't have any good reason on the first Monday of May, therefore no labour day.
Japan is green: After WW2, they made their own labour day, which is somehow fused with their own thanksgiving, due to unclear historical reasons
South Korea is gray: It's indeed no public holiday there. While I don't have any data to support this, I would guess that they didn't feel like having a left-wing holiday after losing to the communists :dunno:
North Korea and Laos are red: I guess there's no doubt that this is correct?

Some other countries where I know:
Finland is yellow: They celebrate May Day on the 1st of May
The Netherlands is grey: They have the king's birthday on April 27, and liberation day on May 5, so that would be a bit cramped. Kinda ironic that they workers don't get their day off, because of the monarchy (okay, they get a day off, but you know what I mean). I actually looked up this map when I was living in NL, because I saw that a ton of other countries are celebrating labour day, and wondered if NL is an exception. Yes, it is.

So, I guess this was a tad bit toooo specific after all :/.
 
I don't think it was too specific at all!

Thanks for the win :)

Declaring an open floor.
 
This map is taken from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
Red: Countries which celebrate labour day on May 1.
Yellow: Another holiday is on May 1.
Finland is yellow: They celebrate May Day on the 1st of May

excuse me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries[1] and often referred to as May Day,[2][3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on May Day (1 May).[4][5]

I totally would have nailed it if the map was correct!

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It has only been 24 hours, and I have done 2 of the last 4, but I have thought of an interesting one to do. It is easy in the same way as my last, but it is a little complicated.
 
OK, this may take a bit of explaining. This is the primary map:
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This was my first go. Every country has some things. Every thing is one of 3 classes. If I convert the proportions of these things into an RGB value, I get this map:
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You can see that here I use only a small part of the colour palette, so I scaled each axis linearly.
 

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No. I mean, everything is "related" to the environment, and this I guess more than others, but it is not a measure of something environmental.
 
When I said "easy in the same way as last time", I meant high profile, and this is the big one. Most news stories, on Al Jazeera at least, will be talking about events that change the distribution shown here.
 
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