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Country nearest neighbour connect
Move around the world by naming every country's nearest neighbour (as measured from geographical centre to geographical centre) that hasn't already been named. Start with the country that is the most distant from any other country.
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The geographical centres of Pacific nations are not necessarily at all close to the centre of their shaded region!
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Last updated: August 19, 2021
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| First submitted | August 12, 2021 |
| Times taken | 1,597 |
| Average score | 65.8% |
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Octochicken
+9
Level 61
Aug 19, 2021
If you had asked me beforehand where this journey will end, I would never have guessed the Maldives.
rwwt
+1
Level 80
Aug 19, 2021
No, me neither!
Leopard
+2
Level 52
Nov 21, 2021
Maldives is very close to being after South Africa by my rough calculations.
sambear
+4
Level 73
Sep 17, 2022
Nor that Australia would have been 194th given that you start in New Zealand
rwwt
+1
Level 80
Sep 18, 2022
Nope, I definitely would not have expected that either!
Alpacastro
+3
Level 65
Aug 19, 2021
This was one crazy ride
Moose135
+4
Level 60
Aug 19, 2021
And so did everything end on the maldives, on a white beach, in the sun and with a cocktail in your hands
Moose135
+1
Level 60
Aug 19, 2021
And so did everything end on the maldives: on a white beach, in the sun and with a drink in your hand
PHG1960
+1
Level 69
Aug 19, 2021
Apparently the geographical center doesn't have anything to to with the middle of the country. There's no way the g.c. of any country close to the USA are a couple hundred miles apart.. The center of the USA is hundreds of miles from the nearest border.
rwwt
+5
Level 80
Aug 19, 2021
The geographical centre of the US is actually not that far south of the Canadian border, because Alaska is huge and way off to the north.
overtired
+1
Level 84
Sep 17, 2022
Is French Guiana taken into account for France's location in the same way? I was expecting France to be a tricky answer in a strange place but it didn't seem to be.
rwwt
+2
Level 80
Sep 18, 2022
It is, but French Guiana is quite small so the centroid is only displaced a fairly small amount. It actually lies about 125km south-east of Madrid.
cuotak
+1
Level 67
Aug 24, 2021
Nauru after Tuvalu? Does the geo centre take into account Niulakita island of Tuvalu?
rwwt
+4
Level 80
Aug 24, 2021
I mostly got the centroids of countries using Geopandas but very small countries don't show up in its lowres world coordinates dataset. Tuvalu is one of them. I got the coordinates of the missing nations from https://developers.google.com/public-data/docs/canonical/countries_csv, which places Tuvalu at 177.6E, 7.1S. There's no information on how those points were calculated but it seems reasonable given the locations of the extreme points of the country.
quizzer2
+1
Level 37
Sep 8, 2021
Great quiz! I could imagine it would have taken forever to complete.
Quizzy69
+1
Level 71
Sep 17, 2022
Great quiz, and a challenge to do. Maybe would help to have the option to have missing countries highlighted? If you've moved to a less obvious neighbour then its easy to forget the small countries you left behind. And fun to see just how apart New Zealand and Australia really are : )
benjaminmarker
+1
Level 71
Sep 20, 2022
This swas so much fun.. Managed to get them all with just 10 seconds to spare. Nominated!
Longcorn
+1
Level 67
Dec 3, 2022
Fun and challenging, nice quiz!
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