The rectangularness of countries

Re:The rectangularness of countries by Analemma_ on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:10PM (#12124473)

I'm surprised Portugal didn't score higher. One day in the car I randomly asked myself the same question of "which country is the most rectangular", and Portugal was the first one I thought of. Is it because the Azores were included? Would like to see the rank if they had only the mainland.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by _pferreir_ on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:26PM (#12124627)

My exact thought. But I'm Portuguese, so I'm biased.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by markcerqueira on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:12PM (#12124948)

Campeões!! Campeões!! Nós somos campeões!!

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by zymhan on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:35PM (#12124690)

Polandball comics have been on the Portugal-is-a-rectangle trail for a while now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/300b86/portugal...

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by foliveira on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:00PM (#12124853)

Including Azores definitely affected the final result. It's weird that other countries didn't have their islands include though

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by flurdy on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:05PM (#12124896)

Others are also affected by islands and territories, see France with French Guyana etc, Norway with Svalbard etc. France is quite a square country if you only consider its mainland so it is an odd choice to include non mainland areas but I guess it is a difficult greyzone on what to include and not.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by Laforet on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:14PM (#12124962)

The French themselves refer to metropolitan France as l'Hexagone so it probably still would not be a square.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by foliveira on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:21PM (#12125008)

Somehow I was thinking about France with French Guyana but must have passed it.

As some have said, I'd like to check the impact of only using mainland in the calculations.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by lagadu on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:48AM (#12128576)

I'd say France is far more a pentagon than a rectangle.

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Re:The rectangularness of countries by personlurking on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:17AM (#12127370)

One must not forget Madeira islands either

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