Grandpa rocks!

I think you will find that is the Specific Ocean.

I didn't even know this was a thing, going to google to educate myself some more.

Why are most of these comparisons to american states?

I think I've told this story before but a friend of mine sent a love letter to her French boyfriend, in French, and he sent it back to her with the grammar corrected. So that tracks with the French reaction...

Cyprus looking like a tiny rainbow

Not to keen on the babies outside marriage in Türkiye then.

Did you know: Brazil is so big that it can fit the entirety of Brazil within itself :D

Pretty sure this is solely based on schedules and does not reflect reality in some countries.

The areas where the plantations used to be... (sigh)

It's really important with this dataset to recognise it is purely about *feelings* not *actual risk*. I've seen so many headlines about how this country or that is sliding down the safety league table etc and when I've followed up on the data, the crime rates rarely track the perceptions. Much more to do with political and media narratives, esp around immigration.

Greece?

UK is including Liz Truss, which seems a bit of a technicality

What did the Romans ever do for us?

I’m not sure how recent this data is, it certainly isn’t this high for Gen-z. It would be interesting to see the generational statistics

What was WW1 even about? As far as I can see, it was a feud between some royal cousins that got ugly...

I'd be that one person in ireland

Vienna would have been 18,000,002, if my parents hadn't been ill

The red dot on Vatican City is ridiculous. Sure, they have religious issues with that but there is no actual risk for travelers. Con the contrary, China, Japan and India should have been much further on the purple side.

Horrendous!

Russia’s cold amazes us once more!

But it seems like everything is going so well in India. They have Modi suppressing elections, religious extremism getting out of control, the resurgence of sexism and homophobia, and supporting Putin/Trump/North Korea. Everything's going so well there...

Switzerland uses a lot the referendum system, even for ordinary things; it's a very direct form of decision, and parties are not so much ideologically divisive as in other places. Italy also requires them for changes that have an effect on the constitution or that are culturally sensitive.

Albania: Holy Mary holding Baby Jesus in her right arm, Andorra: Apse fresco of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters church, Austria: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, Belarus: The Fiddler by Marc Chagal, lBelgium: The Son of Man by René Magritte, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mountain landscape by Karlo Mijić, Bulgaria: Rachenitsa Dance by Ivan Mrkvička, Croatia: Roman Woman Playing A Lute by Vjekoslav Karas, Cyprus: Couple by Stelois Votsis, Czech Republic: The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva, Denmark: The Little Mermaid, Estonia: Half Nude in Striped Skirt by Adamson-Eric, Finland: The Wounded Angel by Hugo Simberg, France: Sunrise by Claude Monet, Germany: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, Greece: Venus de Milo, Hungary: The Old Fisherman by Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, Iceland: Thingvellir by Thorarinn B. Thorlaksson, Ireland: Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis BaconI, taly: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Latvia: After Church by Janis Rozentāls,

The Judean Peoples Front!

These are government gold reserves. Not mineral reserves.

I bet I could trace East vs West Germany from those regions...not perfectly of course but it could be a decent map.

There is one Thing to think about: IT is the European Song Co test. So what is Austrslia ding there ? The answer: They are such huge Fans of that contest, that they are allowed to participate.

Hungary staying strong to it’s no we don’t like your language philosophy

*Sad British noises*