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Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by mason55 »

baryphonic wrote: post #64
bluetomcat wrote: post #29

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The hard ones for me were countries in mainland Africa, island nations in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and small adjacent countries that you associate in a group – say Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, or Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.

For the 'stans, I remember TUTK (west to east), and that Turkmenistan is closest to Turkey.

The other way to remember is, if you can remember that Kazakhstan is the biggest, then it goes alphabetically clockwise.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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Post by fastaguy88 »

An interesting demonstration of the difference between number averages and mass/size averages. Did great on the big countries. No idea where San Marino was, so lots of relatively smaller countries pulled my average down. By mass/size, probably 90+ %. By number, only 70%.

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by bradwood »

ghaff wrote: post #93
mason55 wrote: post #92

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Neighborle is an ok daily geography game. If you're really good at geography then it's probably too easy but every couple days one of the puzzles actually makes me think (usually stuff on the Atlantic coast of Africa).

This was the one I was thinking of. https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ Yeah, it's mostly African countries or random islands that gave me the most trouble.

Right. Plus all the central Asian "*stans"

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by ta1243 »

andrewtbham wrote: post #79
Tainnor wrote: post #45

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It seems to be showing the recognised territories in dark green and contested areas in light green (e.g. for Russia, Crimea is also in light green, although interestingly not Eastern Ukraine, and IIRC the West of Guyana was shown in light green for Venezula). These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independen…

That is correct about the green colors work. Most of the maps are from wikipedia and that's how they do show contested areas in light green. I think I will change them though to another source because it is confusing.

At the very least include a legend so we know they mean

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by Aachen »

wartijn_ wrote: post #100
Aachen wrote: post #84

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I'm at 27/45 when I ran out of available time (IRL), which is pretty depressing for someone who once knew them all :( The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!"…

Yemen has been in the news lately, because of its location. Ships have been avoiding the Red Sea because people in Yemen were firing rockets at them.

Ah, I had not heard that particular news story

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Post by MrResearcher »

asimpletune wrote: post #31

I love it, my only feedback was the I didn't really understand which I was supposed to pick when it showed me N. Korea. Because all I saw the Korean Peninsula, and the north was dark green and the south was light green.

Yep, when North Korea is selected, both North Korea and South Korea are highlighted and it's not clear which country is requested. Same goes for South Korea.

Re: Show HN: Name That Nation

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Post by frereubu »

Tainnor wrote: post #48
frereubu wrote: post #44

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You can practice here! https://www.youdontknowafrica.com/

I think the better way for me would be to form some (really, any) kind of association to more African countries, most of which are a total blur to me. Most other countries I could say something about. It doesn't help that most of Africa is basically only in the media if there's a disease or war or something.

That does help for sure - I have friends who are from or have been to Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Gambia, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and a few others, so perhaps I've got a bit of a head start. If you're starting from scratch, one enjoyable way is to read their Wikipedia articles when they come up in the news, that way you don't just get the sensationalised news stories and can form more rounded associations with the country.
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