The quizzmaster might want to clear this one up with a quick rewrite. Guadeloupe in the Carribbean is even further west than French Guiana. It's not a country but an overseas department of France. It's one of what the EU calls an 'outermost region', quite distinct from what it terms 'overseas countries and territories'.
However, the definition of 'overseas territory' can be interpreted to include such things, depending on which side of the bed you got out of, so maybe it should read 'Not including overseas territories, regions, departments etc.', or make France #1.
There doesn't appear to be a definition of 'overseas territory' in any established dictionary that I can find, other than one that applies only to British overseas territories (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/overseas-territory)
While I see the point you are trying to make regarding the confusion that can arise - your comment about making France #1 is incorrect as this quiz is about the westernmost countries in Europe. Some of France's overseas departments are very far west but they are not in Europe themselves, therefore France is not the westernmost country in Europe.
4 azorean islands are in the african plate, 2 are in the north american plate and 3 (São Miguel, Graciosa and Terceira) are in the eurasian plate, so geographically some of the azorean islands are part of europe, not africa
Netherlands yes. But not Monaco or Luxembourg. The criteria is westernmost points of Europe. Monaco is nearest the Mediterranean and Luxembourg is trumped by Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Portugal.
He is counting the island of Jan Mayen, which is closer to Greenland than to Norway. So technically the westernmost point of Norway is further West than those other countries.
Wow, I put England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Can we please get credit for UK on one of those, at least? After that, my brain turned off of UK, regardless of the lat/long.
Interesting statistic: Portugal, not including the Azores, ranks 3rd, which makes the cut. Another one: Portugal is 99% guessed, and the other 1% probably can't spell Portugal. And now a question: why all the fuss?
I have to agree with LePlume on this one. There is not an exact legal, juristictional and semantic analogy, but on a spectrum of analogies, Azores are to Portugal as Hawaii is to USA, not Guam. I would say East Timor and Macao (prior to their devolution) were to Portugal as Guam is to the US.
Several reasons: #1 Geography & history; #2 Current population (ethnically and linguistically difficult to distinguish from mainland for an outsider); #3 geologically, as already stated by others, Azores are at junction of african and European plates with plurality in Europe #4 no devolution or even sense of self-rule/home rule that is above and beyond what is seen in portugal's mainland administrative subdivisions.
Yes but plate boundaries are not used to define continents. If that were the case, there wouldn't be 6 or 7 (depending on the language) continents but at least 15, and some would, IIRC, not have any landmass at all.
I couldn't figure out why Russia, Ukraine, etc. weren't accepted. Finally, it kicked in. Still managed to get them all but it took far longer than it should have. At least I'm ready for what I assume will be the next one in this series.
All these featured quizzes lately about the 10 most this or that by continent (or continents in the case of "America") are way too easy. Could be a 30 second quiz and would still be easy.
People love to argue they are right even when they haven't got a clue. And some can't even be arsed undertaking even the smallest bit of research or even reading the rubric in the question before shouting their mouth off. It is truly incredible.
Did you look at a single one of the comments above before asking this question? or did you just assume you were the only one who noticed the biggest island in the World?
Hey, judging by your level, you seem new to JetPunk, if so, Welcome! One tip I should give you is to read the caveats for the quiz, it will help you greatly! They can be found to the right of the picture for the quiz at the top of the page.
0:46 (I Don't know why say 1:14 in green and big) and 10/10 (100%) inever got 10/10 (in a long time) I'm not going to say the answers because some people might cheat
I would argue for Portugal being at the top of the list, because of the Azores. They aren't an overseas territory, since they are actually incorporated land of Portugal. I've also found that the Azores are almost always considered part of Europe, unlike something like the Canary Islands, which are considered part of Africa.
Shouldn't Denmark be on the list? I mean Greenland is a part of Denmark. Right? Or maybe this quiz is outdated... I don't know, do you think I'm right? I mean I might (or probably am) wrong, after all, I am only ELEVEN!
I think it's because Jan Mayen is technically administered as a part of Nordland (very much a part of the metropol) while areas such as French Guiana, Greenland, and Bermuda are administered separately from the mainland.
French Guiana is a French department (an integral part of France), but is not in Europe. Both Greenland and Bermuda are territories in North America, so they're excluded.
Dutch Guyana became Suriname, and British Guyana became just Guyana, where as French Guiana stayed a department of France.
However, the definition of 'overseas territory' can be interpreted to include such things, depending on which side of the bed you got out of, so maybe it should read 'Not including overseas territories, regions, departments etc.', or make France #1.
There doesn't appear to be a definition of 'overseas territory' in any established dictionary that I can find, other than one that applies only to British overseas territories (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/overseas-territory)
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_department_and_region
but a clearer disciption/caveat would be helpfull yes.
Jan Mayen is to Norway as Hawaii is to the U.S.
The Azores are to Portugal as Guam is to the U.S.
This is a pretty rough analogy since no two territories are really the same, but it gets the point across.
I'm really not sure why Jan Mayen would count and not Azores
Jan Mayen is to Norway as Hawaii is to the U.S.
The Azores are to Portugal as Guam is to the U.S.
This is a pretty rough analogy since no two territories are really the same, but it gets the point across.
Several reasons: #1 Geography & history; #2 Current population (ethnically and linguistically difficult to distinguish from mainland for an outsider); #3 geologically, as already stated by others, Azores are at junction of african and European plates with plurality in Europe #4 no devolution or even sense of self-rule/home rule that is above and beyond what is seen in portugal's mainland administrative subdivisions.
It is so much more west than the rest of the countries and
Despite being VERY far from mainland Norway, Jan Mayen is a fully integral part of Norway, so it counts.
Definitely confusing for us quiz-takers, but the quiz author is correct here on including Norway and excluding Denmark.
Greenland is more west than any if these countries
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