The following maps were all created by reddit user DM_me_fun_stuff_pls who explains:
After my last post on the Regions of Europe, a week ago, I have gotten over 200 responses on my survey on it, thank you for that! So here are the results of the survey.
Notes on the Survey and Map: Each category is normalized to the most voted country in each category. So 100% does not mean every single respondent chose this country but that it was the most chosen (although most of the times it was close).
It would probably be great and interesting to go into a lower level of subdivisions for some of these Regions, but honestly I don’t know how I would go about doing a survey for that, that is not a complete chore to respond to…
And now the maps:
Northern, Western, Southern & Eastern Europe
Northwestern, Northeastern, Southwestern & Southeastern Europe
Central Europe, The Balkans, Nordic Countries, Baltic Countries
Caucus, Low Countries, Carpathians, & Fennoscandia Countries
Scandinavian, Atlantic, Alpine, & Mediterranean Countries
British Isles, Danubian, Benelux & Black Sea Countries
A few questions were asked about the map including:
Why is Portugal marked as a Balkan country?
The answer:
Its a joke here on Reddit, since in many maps it appears in similar categories as the Balkan countries.
The Joke is popular enough for it to show up on the map. I wasn’t sure how to deal with it, since it was obvious Joke answers, but at the same time if I started removing “Joke answers” it would have been pretty hard to decide which would count as such (For example quite a few people voted for Britain not being part of Europe, that could either be a joke or it could be about it not being part of the European mainland).
So for the sake of Data sanctity I left it all as is.
The only Filter I employed is extending the white color of 0% up to 2%, to filter out random noise, since there were a handful of people that sometimes gave pretty random answers. So as you can see over 2% of people have voted for Portugal to be Eastern Europe and Balkans…
What do you think of the maps?
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