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What is the center of the US anyways? Does it include Alaska and Guam?
Safe to assume middle of the lower 48
That’s not generalizable to every country though.
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Territories (eg French Guiana) are specifically separated in Worldle, even being possible answers themselves. Also, this is a map game, so for me it's pretty intuitive that it is the center of the hull. Maybe with some error due to projection (not sure how they implemented the map), but should not be a problem for solving the puzzle.
Interesting, since my understanding of the matter is that the status of Guiana within France is as integral with that nation as Alaska is with the U.S.
Yes it is indeed an integral part of France — a full department as mentioned in a sibling comment.
(This is all news to me. I somehow assumed that French Guiana and British Virgin Islands were independent countries.)
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#95I discovered this a few days ago, but being the huge geography nerd I am I've never done worse than one attempt...
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#96I don't understand how this works? It had a picture of _____, and the correct answer was ______. Is it just guessing the country name based on the shape? edit - hid my answer in case it wasn't as obvious to others.
> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
How can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.
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#97I discovered this a few days ago, but being the huge geography nerd I am I've never done worse than one attempt...
Did you give hiding the map a shot? Makes it a little more challenging.
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#98I was extremely confused about the distance values in relation to the percentages until I read the help: > The distances displayed correspond to the distances between the selected and the target territory centers. > For instance, the computed distance between United States and Canada is around 2260km even if they have a common border. That's extremely deceptive and non-obvious unless you read through the documentatio…
What is the center of the US anyways? Does it include Alaska and Guam?
Fun fact, Google Earth had its coordinates defaulted to an apartment complex in Lawrence, Kansas, apparently the childhood home of one of the engineers, but also roughly the center of the United States.
https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/21/lawrence_pinpointe...
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
How can you get it wrong, though? You are basically presented the solution. It's like if Wordle would show you the picture of a tiger and asks for the word "TIGER". And if you don't recognize a country by it's borders and just take a wild guess, something like "you are 5000km off!" probably won't help you much anyway, which is apparently what you are getting shown on a wrong guess according to comments here.
Not everyone knows the exact shape of every country.
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#100Trying to pronounce this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done
Well look at Mr Privilege over here, showing off!
(j/k)