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I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-)
While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capital. De Hague is for complaining about, Amsterdam is for celebrating.
Very nice. I guess most dutchies would disagree with the decision to pick De Hague as the Main Capital, though :-) While all power is in De Hague , Amsterdam definitely is the Capital. De Hague is for complaining about, Amsterdam is for celebrating.
Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"
Always interesting to find capital cities which are in fact not the most famous cities from that country. Makes for great trivia questions.
Taipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA
It took me this map to realize the capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and not Colombo as I thought for over 30 years. Always interesting to find capital cities which are in fact not the most famous cities from that country. Makes for great trivia questions.
It would be interesting to see a map which was not minimizing [distance to capital] but instead minimized [distance to capital]/sqrt([national population]). The latter would be more robust against Sybil attacks.
I was wondering what kind of metric could be used to visualize a nation’s ability to project power. Maybe some ratio involving the furthest distance from the capital city to the nation’s border? I’m curious why the sqrt of the population in the denominator?
Perhaps you should limit it to capital cities or states with a certain population size. Including all the European microstates does not seem appropriate to me; Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican have very varying degrees of independence and geopolitical significance.
Interactive data filters would definitely be fun on its own account though. E.g. the population slider or by having a button making it the largest cities above x population instead of countries/capitals or so on with centers of states. It looks like there are several different maps on this site, such things may make it more a single experience with more overall value than the separated parts. Still cool as it is though :) just one possibility to go further with it.