Maybe Serbia wasn't counted because every single one of their neighbors hate them. Not very neighborly. Of course that can also be said of Turkey... unless you count Northern Cyprus. And almost of Russia, possibly excluding Belarus and maybe China or North Korea.
I've spent considerable time in Romania... was even living there briefly... and that's not the impression I got. Though it's probably safe to say Romanians dislike Serbs much less than Kosovars or Bosnians do, sure. But hey, it's the Balkans, right?
"by Middle Eastern standards?" haha... yeah Turkey is between the Balkans and the Middle East... and... not at all coincidentally both regions are so troubled and full of strife. So much of all the problems in the region stem from the Ottoman legacy, including the issue of Israel/Palestine. But... who would you say doesn't hate Turkey? Georgia? Maybe. Though all the former Soviet/CIS residents I knew had this impression of Turks as lecherous perverts and sex tourists, including the girls in Batumi. Alawite Syria not really a fan of Turkey's current Islamist government, and traditionally they squabbled over how to deal with Israel. Iraq/Kurdistan/Da'esh constantly sending terrorists in to Turkey. Shia Iran and Sunni Turkey not the best of friends. Bulgarians talk only about centuries of Ottoman rape. Greeks hate Turks almost as much as they hate Macedonians. Armenia of course is still upset about that little unrecognized genocide.
Maybe if you count that little Azerbaijani exclave?
kalbahamut, Your message is a little offensive because I feel like it's been taken too far. Our president (?) Erdoğan is total shit in my point of view but they don't hate Turks (as a society), at least from what I've made out when I've visited neighbors or areas close to the neighbors.
Greeks hate Turks as much as Macedonians or the Armenian genocides are being used as excuses in your message (And I do not go against the possibility of their existence)
Ataturk actually made a BRAND NEW country when Turkey was born, going (or trying to) go away from its toxic Ottoman traditions to create a democracy, give countless rights and new laws for the public, etc.
All the terrorist attack things are the fault of Erdoğan because of his lack of management or intelligence (just SOMETHING is missing there tbf)
I don't really have anything against the Turkish people personally, I was just describing the reasons that I observed that people in neighboring countries gave for hating Turks. In my experience, quite a lot of them did. I'm not necessarily saying that they are right to... but they do have their reasons. And while yes Ataturk did found a new nation-state in a sense, there is still a lot of continuity between the modern state of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and memories in the Balkans and the Middle East go back a long ways as I'm sure you're aware.
And I'm no fan of Erdogan but, surely, you're not trying to say that the reason why Turkey has got issues with almost every single one of its neighbors is his fault, are you? Most of these disagreements go back to before he was even born.
Thanks! We used the Distance Calculator on daftlogic.com. As for the version excluding neighbors, you can feel free to make it. We are already taking care of 100 and 500 kilometer versions.
You're a big help, thanks! Do you have an Excel table of all of the distances? You do have many proximity quizzes already so the idea isn't hard to put together if not!
Nope, I just used my head. Over and out from Country 11, and a nice evening at both a pop music festival on Danube Island and classical music at Musikverein - Mozart and Rainhard Fendrich, Austria's biggest stars of the 18th and 20th century, all in one evening!
I know this is posted already some time ago, but out of curiousity I made this R script which might help you with this. I don't know about the quality of the shapefile, but you can replace that if you'd like.
Be Interesting to see what peoples' approach to this was? I just thought of those countries with the most borders, and then those in pockets of lots of smaller countries
I just went for large countries surrounded by countries and then smaller countries among lots of smaller countries, still missed Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria.
7 countries touch Mali. Then you have Benin, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia which are nearby. The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau might be within 200km but I think the others are too far away.
Its 7 borders are actually the only ones! Benin, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and the Gambia are all just barely too far away, some only 20 km from the cut.
France and spain are around 50st largest in size (48th and 51st) of all the countries, wouldnt call sweden and germany small either, ow and let's not forget russia. (And greenland, I will never take you for granted! But as usual you will be disregarded)
Runners up are, in order; finland, norway, poland, italy, uk, romania and greece. You could say they arent small either they are in the top 50%
I think that Romania should be here too, it borders, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria; and is also within 200km of Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, and Turkey is 22m less than 200km away.
Maybe if you count that little Azerbaijani exclave?
Greeks hate Turks as much as Macedonians or the Armenian genocides are being used as excuses in your message (And I do not go against the possibility of their existence)
Ataturk actually made a BRAND NEW country when Turkey was born, going (or trying to) go away from its toxic Ottoman traditions to create a democracy, give countless rights and new laws for the public, etc.
All the terrorist attack things are the fault of Erdoğan because of his lack of management or intelligence (just SOMETHING is missing there tbf)
And I'm no fan of Erdogan but, surely, you're not trying to say that the reason why Turkey has got issues with almost every single one of its neighbors is his fault, are you? Most of these disagreements go back to before he was even born.
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library(sf)
library(maptools)
data(wrld_simpl)
# Set this to what you like
km <- 100
countries <- st_as_sf(wrld_simpl)
treshold <- km
units(treshold) <- 'km'
get_number_of_countries <- function(country, countries, treshold){
distance <- st_distance(country, countries)
is_within_treshold <- distance < treshold
number_of_countries <- sum(is_within_treshold)
return(number_of_countries)
}
result <- list()
for (i in 1:length(countries)){
country <- countries[i,]
result[[as.character(country$NAME)]] <- get_number_of_countries(country, countries, treshold)
}
Runners up are, in order; finland, norway, poland, italy, uk, romania and greece. You could say they arent small either they are in the top 50%
2. Andorra
3. Austria
4. Belarus
5. Belgium
6. Bosnia and Herzegovina
7. Bulgaria
8. Croatia
9. Czech Republic
10. Denmark
11. Estonia
12. Finland
13. France
14. Germany
15. Greece
16. Hungary
17. Iceland
18. Ireland
19. Italy
20. Kosovo
21. Latvia
22. Liechtenstein
23. Lithuania
24. Luxembourg
25. Malta
26. Moldova
27. Monaco
28. Montenegro
29. Netherlands
30. North Macedonia
31. Norway
32. Poland
33. Portugal
34. Romania
35. Russia
36. San Marino
37. Serbia
38. Slovakia
39. Slovenia
40. Spain
41. Sweden
42. Switzerland
43. Ukraine
44. United Kingdom
45. Vatican City