Not that I really care, but you have no category that fits Taiwan. It is not really China and not Southeast Asia
I've never heard of Taiwan being part of Southeast Asia to be honest.
Poll: Where are you currently living?
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#242You can't have a "western europe excl UK" and then a "southern europe". Italy and Spain are for sure in both categories.
Greece is in Western Europe, even though it's pretty much the southeasternmost part: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe
Yes, because the division has historically been more political than geographical.
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#243Turkey
+1
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, which Countries did you consider for Western Europe, and Which for Southern/Mediterranean Europe?
I tried to follow Wikipedia as closely as possible, but stupidly didn't keep my workings. My starting point was the full list for Europe. From there I split off UK, then split off Scandanavia, then split off Southern Europe, then worked out a plausible split for the remaining western and eastern. For example, Czech fell into my eastern pile, but could have easily gone the other way... I didn't even bother trying to b…
I expect this will skew results.
Germany, France etc. will be turned-off or even insulted by the grouping and feel less impulse to represent than the named countries where a little nationalistic pride will be a motivator.
The reason for this turn-off is somewhat justified by your language - bother, pile, tedious etc. You must be American - jk!
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#245Wow thanks a lot for indiscriminately lumping together Western Europe in a single, confusing category.
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#246I answered the same question recently on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-some-cool-tech-compan...
Hello to everyone else from Helsinki, Finland - we should organize a Hacker News meetup!
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#247>Southern North America (eg. Mexico) >Northern part of South America >Souther part of South America Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is 'Southern part of South America'? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why 'Southern North America' and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain We…
I'm from Estonia and I had to vote 'Other'. I don't identify myself as an eastern european nor as a scandinavian. I'm from northern europe, as also classified by your linked UN geoscheme. [1] There is no northern europe poll option however. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme
I wonder if mostly anyone from "cold war Eastern Europe" countries identify as an Eastern European any more?
Estonians and other Baltic states don't, Poland doesn't. Czech Republic probably doesn't. What about Slovenia, or Croatia, or Macedonia? Or Hungary?
Also maybe Russians identify as Russians and not Eastern Europeans.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Population of Australia 22.68 million Population of New Zealand 4.433 million Where did the extra 8.5 million come from?
The poll says Australasia, which includes Papua New Guinea (pop 7.4M), the rest would be from the smaller island nations I guess
Ridiculous to include PNG.
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#249Population (in millions): USA 316.8 Canada: 35.1 Southern North America: 176.6 Northern part of South America: ? Southern part of South America: ? ...South America: 387.4 UK: 62.2 Scandinavia: 25.7 Western Europe (excl. UK): 278.7 Eastern Europe: 176.7 Southern Europe / Mediterranean Europe: 153.5 Russia: 142.2 Northern Africa: ? Southern Africa: ? ...Africa: 1032.5 Middle East: 370.9 India: 1210.2 China: 1353.8 Sout…
I'm curious, which Countries did you consider for Western Europe, and Which for Southern/Mediterranean Europe?
I also didn't know. I first voted for "Western Europe". And then I saw the "Southern/Mediterranean Europe" possibility and felt that it fits better so I voted for that one too.
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#250You can't have a "western europe excl UK" and then a "southern europe". Italy and Spain are for sure in both categories.
France too, depending on which part. If you live in Lille you may not feel like it, but if you live in Marseille you totally want to vote Southern Europe.