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World Capitals Voronoi(jasondavies.com)
31 points by vincnetas 2 days ago | 16 comments
mattoxic 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Taipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA

NathanielBaking 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Madison, Canada. Now I just need to sell this to the Canadians.

Georgelemental 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hmm, looks like it models capital cities as a single point, and therefore assigns much more territory to Vatican City than would a model that took into account Rome's city boundaries

Conscat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.

Svoka 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"

pimlottc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would love to see some stats with this. What countries gain/loss the most? Which countries are the last changed? What areas are the now the most countries away from their original country?

jcranmer an hour ago | parent [-]

Eyeballing the map:

For largest absolute net gain of land area, I guess Mongolia wins the cake, getting a very large slice of Siberia while losing almost no land. For a percentage net gain of land area, maybe one of the European microstates, or East Timor.

Largest absolute net loss of land area is Russia for sure. Largest percent loss is... probably Russia? Again, losing Siberia is a large fraction of its land, and nobody else seems to be so screwed by the distance.

Excluding overseas territories, there's three borders between Yakutia-cum-Japan and its current capital, Moscow, and another case of that in the far western reaches of Brazil. If you include overseas territories, well, French Polynesia is currently almost literally antipodal from Paris, and I don't really know how you would count 'most countries away' in that case, but you can't really get further than that.

martinclayton 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.

forthwall 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Interesting, if a country has multiple capitals, it gets split even more!

jezzamon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I want to see one a diagram which includes the oceans too

vulcan01 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).

wk_end 2 hours ago | parent [-]

BC's intact too, if I'm reading this correctly. We lose some far north to Iceland and the very southern tip of Ontario to the US, and that seems to be it as far as I can tell. And as a trade we get New England, a good chunk of Washington, and the northern Plains and a bit of the Midwest. Not bad, really!

vincnetas 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If country boundaries were Voronoi diagrams with respect to their capitals.

bwestergard 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Seems right, ship it.

syats 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Great work.

brunellus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I really enjoyed this.