Guess the Map VII: Bhutan vs. Peru

[nocho]

Just basic layout of our pale blue dot, folks.

 

[say1988]

If you start in Hamilton, New Zealand and duge directly through the centre of the Earth you woudl arrive in Cordoba, Spain. If you went to 11 other points and did the same you would emerge in 11 more countries (Portugal, France, the UK (Gibralter), Morocco, and via various Islands owned by New Zealand: Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad [opposite the Cook Islands], Central African Republic, Libya, and Cameroon. The colours indicate how many countries are opposite the coloured country (New Zealand has 12, France has 12, the US has 7, Canada has 2, Mongolia has 1).

I will probably have something up tonight.

 

[say1988]

The Cook Islands/Chad thing definitely gave it too me.

The thought process: What could two largely irrelevant places on opposite sides of the world have to with each other. Only that they are on the opposite side of the world from each other.

 

[say1988]

Let's try this one

Some of the overseas territories are a bit wonky, because I didn't realize I had them in the data set until I basically had the thing done. But I don't think they are too important to the map and assume any that are not present are grey (various French and British Islands or included in the larger country (Hong Kong, Channel Islands) but unimportant in any case. My data set was a bit weird about separating some but not others. Along these lines, Greenland should probably be grey, but I am not 100% certain (the data is just listed as "Denmark").

It is a scale, grey means none (possibly a couple no data, but I think the dataset is fairly complete).

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Is yellow high or low?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Most france per country.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Most france per country.

 

[nocho]

If France is number 1 again and it's not about antipodes, then it must be related to labour protection or strikes.

 

[Borachio]

Tons of cheese eaten per person every year.

 

[nocho]

Or snails.

 

[say1988]

Yes France is highest and the scale works its way down.

No it has nothing to do with the things mentions.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

France is number 1 again

Delete these words, now!

 

[Borachio]

Hours spent eating lunch. That's, for sure, the highest in France.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

I'm puzzled, whatever's highest in France is next highest in the UK and Belgium.

It's time to look at what we have in common

...

Well, I'm out of ideas

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Vacation time afforded to employees.

 

[nocho]

Is it related to some type of governmental institution?

As lots of islands are coloured I assume it's not related to infrastructure, for example. For that reason it must be something that can by anywhere, but it not necessarily has to exist, as grey means zero. What does Finland lack? It can't be about sunshine I suppose.

 

[warpus]

Number of Asterix & Obelix readers

 

[JohannaK]

Or Tintin readers, or Lucky Luke, or Iznogud, or Spirou, or... too many French comics to list them here.

 

[Borachio]

Public holidays.

 

[Arakhor]

I was under the impression that Tintin was a Belgian comic.