Guess the map 13: Mercator maps are cool, actually

[amadeus]

Contested waters? I know some countries are landlocked, but rivers are made of water too.

I saw a documentary on rivers once.

 

[Samson]

Contested waters? I know some countries are landlocked, but rivers are made of water too.

I saw a documentary on rivers once.

Nope, nothing like that.
The map again, I added a few more countries:

 

[amadeus]

Nope, nothing like that.

So, a fraudulent map to get me to embarrass myself while you conceal the genuine one for later!

 

[Kyriakos]

Why would South Sudan be different from Best Sudan?

Btw, didn't United Sudan use to be the largest country in Africa? (followed by Zaire and then Bebop Algeria).

 

[Samson]

Why would South Sudan be different from Best Sudan?

Btw, didn't United Sudan use to be the largest country in Africa? (followed by Zaire and then Bebop Algeria).

This is very much related to countries, so any political divisions will be different.

You do point out a potential bias, in this is a mean over the time period I have, so Sudan is average of 1960 - 2017 and South Sudan is average of 2008 - 2017.

 

[mitsho]

So in the scale, are Oman and Israel (orange) higher or lower than Saudi-Arabia (rose-ish)? And where does Eritrea (yellow) fit on that scale? I can't make my mind up on the obvious correct order here

My first thought was something about Gender or Woman's rights. But I'm less and less convinced.

 

[Samson]

So in the scale, are Oman and Israel (orange) higher or lower than Saudi-Arabia (rose-ish)? And where does Eritrea (yellow) fit on that scale? I can't make my mind up on the obvious correct order here

My first thought was something about Gender or Woman's rights. But I'm less and less convinced.

The scale is viridis plasma, the 3rd one here.

The top 10:

> head(world_stats[,c("name","value")], n = 10)
            name     value
65       Eritrea 22.636088
166         Oman 16.511426
105       Israel 13.069172
186 Saudi Arabia 11.200926
109       Jordan 10.463363
120       Kuwait  9.732823
209        Syria  9.727628
181        Qatar  9.040006
103         Iraq  6.748970
2         Angola  6.603425

Nothing to do with Gender or Woman's rights.

 

[Birdjaguar]

So apparently there is a lot more of it in the ME. Over time. Could it be food related?

 

[Samson]

So apparently there is a lot more of it in the ME. Over time. Could it be food related?

Nope. But there is a lot of it in the middle east.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is it a culture thing like wearing curled-up toed shoes?

 

[Samson]

Is it a culture thing like wearing curled-up toed shoes?

No, not culture.

 

[EnglishEdward]

quaat consumption

 

[Birdjaguar]

Well, terror and bombings and various ways of killing one another are pretty common, so is it related to political unrest and things like death from the sky etc.?

 

[tamyrlin]

Something related to Military spending per capita
Sorry meant military spending as percentage of GDP.

 

[Samson]

quaat consumption

No

Well, terror and bombings and various ways of killing one another are pretty common, so is it related to political unrest and things like death from the sky etc.?

Related..

Something related to Military spending per capita?

Really close, one tweak and you are there.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Proportion of military as a percentage of the population.

 

[tamyrlin]

No

Related..

Really close, one tweak and you are there.

Edited post is it average military spending as percentage of GDP.

 

[Samson]

Something related to Military spending per capita
Sorry meant military spending as percentage of GDP.

Proportion of military as a percentage of the population.

Edited post is it average military spending as percentage of GDP.

Oh. So this is the right answer. I am not going to choose a winner, can you 2 decide who's go it is?

 

[EnglishEdward]

You go next, @tamyrlin

I posted a map not so long ago.

 

[tamyrlin]

Please go ahead @EnglishEdward, too new to this map guessing and too less time. Will try again some other time.