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What list did you use for the list of "countries"? (I only ask because the first one I got was Northern Cyprus which is only recognized by Turkey and not a UN state).

edit: I see the code is fetching from the following, which has 177 features:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/D3-graph-gallery/ma...

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It also has Greenland which is just an autonomous region of Denmark, but not the Faroe Islands which is our other autonomous region. I guess Greenland is just more visible due to its size (both regions actually have about the same population)

Interesting, thank you for the link. This answers a few questions I had about preferred country names while trying out the game, such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Swaziland/Eswatini, Turkey/Turkiye. I also found the partially recognized states curious, especially Palestine being reduced to "West Bank".

Ah, geo-politics meets technology. Imagine flying into a country, and the border guards tell you "Did you make this website? Well, the depiction of our country is a few pixels off, that offends us. Hands behind your back.".

Or that that body of water is "Gulf of America" now...

C.f.: https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23791805/barbie-map-ni...

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I used a pretty random svg library and was happy that it worked for now, will look into this.

Also “England” but the shape is the UK.

It also includes "Somaliland" which apparently is only somewhat recognized by China.

The actual list is longer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_...

I had a similar reaction to the borders of Western Sahara, where it seems like most of it is part of Morocco in this map.

Apart from these issues, it's really nice, well done!

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