"Aaland" should also be accepted as an answer, since the letter Å is directly equivalent to a double A. It's easy enough to guess the other spelling, but it would be nice to include options. :)
Great quiz. I would never have got the two in Finland but I'm kickin myself about the Serbian one, I thought it was in southern Serbia for some reason.
A little more flexibility on some of the spellings would be nice, those aren't all well known or easy to spell answers.
actually, Padania could be sub-divided in Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and so on. And i don't think Lombardy should be accepted as a solution for the entire region.
Moreover, whilst Padania is seen as an unique entity by its supporters, who think it should be a state on its own, there is an historic independent movement in Alto Adige / Sudtirol which seeks independence from Italy (and i think would equally seek independence from Padania) with the ultimate aim of being united to Austria.
That's why i would add this other secessionist movement to the quiz
Great quiz! It was an extremely unique geography quiz, which I certainly appreciate. I've made a few of my own, but hardly had the same level of creativity :)
It's not a matter of getting along or not. It's a matter not feeling adequately represented by the state you are living in (because the interests and preferences of the majority of the rest of the country are different from yours).
What's wrong of wishing for a different state? It's not as if the current borders had been drawn after negotiated consensus and democratic elections...
Why should an individual give a heck to which country s/he is "represented by" or how it should be called? Countries are just an artificial structure, not a really important thing.
I understand even independence movements in those situations when individuals do not have equal rights and that is somehow based on their culture, ethnicity or language, but not when they have equal citizen rights. But is is actually impossible to define any group that would have right to an independent country when another group has not.
Well Scotland just got yanked out of the EU against the will of its people - a situation independence would have fixed. One doesn't need to be some archaic nationalist to be concerned with these issues.
Especially in western Europe, countries are not an artificial construct. They are groupings of people sharing a common language, history, culture etc. They are somewhat more artificial than a family is, but much less artificial than you say.
Please have a closer look. Practically every current country in the Western Europe is and has always been a mixture of people of different languages, cultures, religions.
About half the population of England also got yanked out of the EU against their will, but that's nothing independence wouldn't fix. And a surprising number of Scots voted for Brexit.
having grown up in Bavaria, I've never met anyone in favor of independence either. Of splitting up the state and making it two maybe, but not of somehow not being part of Germany anymore.
Padania's area is grossly exhaggerated. Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and most of Emilia Romagna would NEVER split from Italy to join an entity called "Padania".
Karelia is wrong in several ways. First, the area you show in the map does not belong to Finland and most part of it has never done so. Secondly, being a native Finnish from a Karelian family, I have never even heard of the Finnish parts of Karelia wanting any kind of independence. Thirdly, although there apparently is some kind of independence movement in the Russian Karelia, my understanding is that it is not really active and does not have large support.
Anyway, remove at least Finland from the hint for Karelia.
Renewing my earlier comment: Concerning the "Karelia" question, please replace "Finland" in the hint by "Russia". (Although I'm not sure that any serious independence movement exist even that kind of the border, I can tell with 100% certainty that nothing like that exists in Finland.)
Vojvodina is not a secessionist movement - merely a culturally mixed area in which some citizens would like a little more autonomy (just 5% want full independence)
I remember when I left Bosnia to Croatia, there was a sign saying "Welcome to Republika Srpska" and I thought it means Serbia and I was wondering why the hell it said Welcome to Serbia in Bosnia
A little more flexibility on some of the spellings would be nice, those aren't all well known or easy to spell answers.
Maybe add Northern Ireland, Sardinia, Eastern Ukraine, Gotland.
Moreover, whilst Padania is seen as an unique entity by its supporters, who think it should be a state on its own, there is an historic independent movement in Alto Adige / Sudtirol which seeks independence from Italy (and i think would equally seek independence from Padania) with the ultimate aim of being united to Austria.
That's why i would add this other secessionist movement to the quiz
Plaid Cymru campaign on all sorts of issues. Just as it's been shown that not everyone who votes for the SNP wants Scottish independence.
What's wrong of wishing for a different state? It's not as if the current borders had been drawn after negotiated consensus and democratic elections...
I understand even independence movements in those situations when individuals do not have equal rights and that is somehow based on their culture, ethnicity or language, but not when they have equal citizen rights. But is is actually impossible to define any group that would have right to an independent country when another group has not.
You have nothing to lose but your chains.
2.But there aren't many people for Vojvodina and Moravias independence, instead of them you should have included for example Wales, Sicily or Wallonia
Anyway, remove at least Finland from the hint for Karelia.