On the other hand, as of right now, China has 1 point and India 9. That combined is less than Poland, which has 15.

It makes sense to have finer granularity for the poll options people will actually choose.

It's 04:33 in the morning in China (in one of the timezones at least), makes sense.

China uses one timezone as far as I understand, so it's 5am for all of China atm.

China is currently has 7 points, 19 hours later. India is 72, Russia is 23, Vietnam 7, UK is 242. hmmm

People in India are asleep right now.

Is HN even accessible behind the great firewall?

HN has been blocked for more than a year now.

No choices for Hong Kong or Macao.

China also has relatively few people that simultaneously speak English well enough to read/post here while also having easy access to VPNs. If I had to take a guess I would bet there are more people that are Chinese first generation emigrants that live outside of China on HN than there are Chinese citizens that live inside China on HN.

Pretty much anyone who speaks English well enough to read/post here would have easy access to a VPN. Firewall is easy to hop, you just need to know that you want to.

There's less people from China and say, Russia, on this site than Minnesota. I think it's a bit weird but the detail works.

Not that weird. There are much more popular local websites in Russia at least.

You mind sharing any of them if they are similar to Hacker News in terms of content, comments and audience? I love browsing websites in languages I don't yet understand fully.

habr.com (habr.com/ru has much more content than English version).