> The simplest test is to cut a country into quadrants with lines running and north-south and east west. Sure, OK, maybe that way of thinking is why I've had s

> The simplest test is to cut a country into quadrants with lines running and north-south and east west. Sure, OK, maybe that way of thinking is why I've had so much kickback. If you draw a rectangle around Spain on a map and divide the rectangle into quadrants, then Pays Basque and Catalunya both fall squarely in the northeast quadrant. But by that reasoning, the entire eastern part of Spain is the "northeast". Spain is not rectangular.