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Unrelated, but does anyone have an idea why all of the countries appear in alphabetical order but then suddenly Spain jumps up in the middle of all the E-s? The
by elisehein 14y ago
Unrelated, but does anyone have an idea why all of the countries appear in alphabetical order but then suddenly Spain jumps up in the middle of all the E-s? The UK follows soon after. All I could think of was Spain=Espana, but England definitely isn't the same as the UK..
- mbostock 14y agoThis is the order they are defined in the source data (Natural Earth - Admin 0 countries), and it appears to be sorted by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. Spain is ESP, United Kingdom is GB1.