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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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