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« Reply #25 on: July 18, 2011, 06:55:16 PM »

39/39.
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« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2011, 04:26:29 AM »


Huh

Just had a go for Malawi, 21/28... mostly mix ups in the southern region.
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« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2011, 05:23:40 AM »

34 local authorities at the most important level of local government in the Republic of Ireland, 29 of which are called "counties".

32 traditional counties of Ireland.

Arguably, the former are the closer Irish equivalent to the Americocentric poll question. Though nobody would think of them first when he hears "counties" and "Ireland".
Of course, I suppose you both know that already. Grin
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« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2011, 07:37:09 AM »

With French Departements :



Departements I correctly called
Departements I miscalled (confused Allier with Puy de Dome, Gard with Hérault and incorrectly identified Loiret)
Departements I would probably have called (hesitated too much)
Departements I had no (or vaguely) clue about

63/96 !
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« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2011, 12:30:18 PM »

I got 80 out of 102 for Illinois.  I was a tad bit dissapointed.

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« Reply #30 on: July 20, 2011, 03:03:10 PM »

Georgia is hard as hell.
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« Reply #31 on: July 20, 2011, 09:03:28 PM »

237/254 93.3% B+

4 swaps, the two Stones mess me up.  Swisher and Castro had the same population in an earlier census, exactly 10,000.  In both cases, I know I get them reversed which makes it hard to get them right.  I swapped around the Lubbock neighbors, and the blue counties are hard because they are all square, little population and no reference counties,

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« Reply #32 on: July 22, 2011, 10:01:38 AM »

I can easily get all French departments and I think all Spanish provinces, but I get only 30-35ish out of 50 in Ontario. I get all 17 Quebec regions but I obviously barely know the MRCs of which there are way too many.
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« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2011, 10:29:30 AM »

75/82

The Delta and Pine Belt counties can get confusing at times.
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« Reply #34 on: July 22, 2011, 10:35:24 AM »

Damn you guys are total dorks.
I probably couldn't even name 30 out of the 77 in my state.
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« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2011, 01:08:07 PM »

I can easily get all French departments and I think all Spanish provinces, but I get only 30-35ish out of 50 in Ontario. I get all 17 Quebec regions but I obviously barely know the MRCs of which there are way too many.

Sometimes I get Oxford and Brant confused, but that's only if I'm not thinking well. That and Perth and Wellington. Otherwise, Ontario's counties are pretty easy. The historical counties are a bit more tricky however.
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« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2011, 06:52:35 PM »

All of them, but then there are only thirteen. Can also name all the current unitary authority areas, all the 'counties' created in 1974 (not that that's hard), and (much sadder) all of the districts that existed between 1974 and the mid 90s.

I could do the same for both England and Scotland wrt the first and the second. Probably the third, almost certainly not the fourth.
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« Reply #37 on: July 28, 2011, 11:56:24 PM »
« Edited: July 28, 2011, 11:58:43 PM by Teddy (SoFE) »

 
Note a few in the east on this map are incorrect (since been merged)

41/41


I used to live on PEI
3/3

and in New Brunswick


15/15


I could also name all NS's counties as well, but I've never lived there
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« Reply #38 on: July 29, 2011, 12:02:52 AM »

Ontario has 50 census divisions, Teddy. And I don't know where you got that map, as Russell County was never shaped like that. When it was a county, it included Cumberland which is now in Ottawa. Its merger with Prescott County came long before it lost Cumberland.

Also, your map oddly does not separate Haldimand and Norfolk, does not contain Ontario County or Lincoln County.
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« Reply #39 on: July 29, 2011, 12:06:01 AM »

Lincoln is part of the Niagara region.

And I counted Haldimand-Norfolk as one, but I can easily split it in two Tongue

As for the north, they are not counties, or equiv. so I don't care about them Tongue
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« Reply #40 on: July 29, 2011, 12:12:51 AM »

Lincoln is part of the Niagara region.

And I counted Haldimand-Norfolk as one, but I can easily split it in two Tongue

As for the north, they are not counties, or equiv. so I don't care about them Tongue

They are county equivalents... they even have district seats. (no real government though, but there is some organization with them)

And, Lincoln is a former county, which your map doesn't show. It amalgamated with Welland County (which I forgot about) in 1970.
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« Reply #41 on: August 08, 2011, 01:35:00 AM »

52/58

Six months ago I could name all 32 counties in Ireland, but I can't do that anymore.
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« Reply #42 on: August 08, 2011, 01:40:08 AM »

I took this a step further...

I got a county map of the entire USA and I tried to identify as many counties as I could nationwide.

Outside of LA, NC, WV and AR, it was a huge fail! lol
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« Reply #43 on: August 08, 2011, 12:20:41 PM »

CA: 58/58
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« Reply #44 on: August 08, 2011, 12:34:44 PM »

I can name about 90% of the Austrian districts and cities, of which there are about 120.
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« Reply #45 on: August 08, 2011, 02:21:15 PM »


Of course I know 15/15 of the cities and Kreise of Schleswig-Holstein. Also 7/7 of the Hamburg districts and 12/12 of the Berlin districts. And 6/6 of the Saarland Kreise.

I think if I concentrate I could also do Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse.

But no shot on Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg and the East.
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« Reply #46 on: August 11, 2011, 07:30:13 PM »

8/8. CT is rediculously easy.
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« Reply #47 on: August 11, 2011, 07:42:52 PM »

How many can we name, or that have accurate location?

If the latter, then where can blank maps of the counties be found?
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« Reply #48 on: August 12, 2011, 12:43:19 AM »

How many can we name, or that have accurate location?

If the latter, then where can blank maps of the counties be found?

I copied this map to Paint and filled in the counties I knew.

For individual states, just copy maps from the Election Results section of the site into Paint. 
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« Reply #49 on: August 12, 2011, 12:53:48 AM »

I can name the only five that matter.  Bucks, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester.  Smiley

(A pre-emptory "Up Yours Gramps" Purple heart).
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