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What list did you use for the list of "countries"? (I only ask because the first one I got was Northern Cyprus which is only recognized by Turkey and not a UN s

by ks2048 2y ago

What list did you use for the list of "countries"? (I only ask because the first one I got was Northern Cyprus which is only recognized by Turkey and not a UN state). edit: I see the code is fetching from the following, which has 177 features: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/D3-graph-gallery/master/DATA/world.geojson https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/D3-graph-gallery/ma...

radicalcentrist 2y ago
Interesting, thank you for the link. This answers a few questions I had about preferred country names while trying out the game, such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Swaziland/Eswatini, Turkey/Turkiye. I also found the partially recognized states curious, especially Palestine being reduced to "West Bank".
- netsharc 2y ago
  Ah, geo-politics meets technology. Imagine flying into a country, and the border guards tell you "Did you make this website? Well, the depiction of our country is a few pixels off, that offends us. Hands behind your back.". Or that that body of water is "Gulf of America" now... C.f.: https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23791805/barbie-map-nine-dash-line-vietnam-china https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23791805/barbie-map-ni...
poizan42 2y ago
It also has Greenland which is just an autonomous region of Denmark, but not the Faroe Islands which is our other autonomous region. I guess Greenland is just more visible due to its size (both regions actually have about the same population)
ethanwillis 2y ago
It also includes "Somaliland" which apparently is only somewhat recognized by China.
- doabell 2y ago
  The actual list is longer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Somaliland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_...
sh1mmer 2y ago
Also “England” but the shape is the UK.
yesbabyyes 2y ago
I had a similar reaction to the borders of Western Sahara, where it seems like most of it is part of Morocco in this map. Apart from these issues, it's really nice, well done!
blackbrokkoli 2y ago
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I used a pretty random svg library and was happy that it worked for now, will look into this.

by ks2048 2y ago

radicalcentrist 2y ago

Interesting, thank you for the link. This answers a few questions I had about preferred country names while trying out the game, such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Swaziland/Eswatini, Turkey/Turkiye. I also found the partially recognized states curious, especially Palestine being reduced to "West Bank".

netsharc 2y ago
Ah, geo-politics meets technology. Imagine flying into a country, and the border guards tell you "Did you make this website? Well, the depiction of our country is a few pixels off, that offends us. Hands behind your back.". Or that that body of water is "Gulf of America" now... C.f.: https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23791805/barbie-map-nine-dash-line-vietnam-china https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23791805/barbie-map-ni...

poizan42 2y ago

It also has Greenland which is just an autonomous region of Denmark, but not the Faroe Islands which is our other autonomous region. I guess Greenland is just more visible due to its size (both regions actually have about the same population)

ethanwillis 2y ago

It also includes "Somaliland" which apparently is only somewhat recognized by China.

doabell 2y ago
The actual list is longer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Somaliland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_...

sh1mmer 2y ago

Also “England” but the shape is the UK.

yesbabyyes 2y ago

I had a similar reaction to the borders of Western Sahara, where it seems like most of it is part of Morocco in this map. Apart from these issues, it's really nice, well done!

blackbrokkoli 2y ago

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I used a pretty random svg library and was happy that it worked for now, will look into this.