French Polynesia is considered an “overseas collectivity” by the French government while Alaska is physically part of the U.S. like Northern Ireland is part of the U.K.
It feels a bit odd that inhabitated rocks in the sea are considered to be essential parts of a country but oversea territories such as Tahiti do not count. Just said.
The galapagos are part of Ecuador, which reach out as west as Guatemala. Peru, while similar to Ecuador on the mainland continent, does not have something like the galapagos.
Edit for French2010's comment: That, I do not know. I don't know about Columbia, my comment was directed to rohfi.
Easter Island is a 'province' of Chile and the Galapagos are a 'province' of Ecuador, which both equate to something like a 'county' in the USA I think? A subdivision of a region or state. French Polynesia isn't administratively part of the départements of France in that sort of way.
That's true, Baxtergrad: Galápagos is a proper province in its own right (so like a US state), and Easter Island is province that pertains to the Valparaíso Region of Chile (so maybe like a US county).
It's annoying that words like province, region, state, department etc are so inconsistently applied around the world...!
New zealand has land that far west (far east..) really? I wasnt aware of that.
Now have this image of them peeping around the corner (of the map) haha ( and now of a cat trying to look behind a mirror.. :D I know, my mind works in mysterious ways ;) )
Cause they ARE overseas territories? Easter Islands and the Galapagos are not overseas territories. They are integral parts (subdivisions) of the countries they belong to.
The Galapagos Islands are not overseas territories, but an overseas province. In essence, Galapagos is like Hawaii and Tahiti for example is like Puerto Rico. I hope you know the difference.
Tuvalu is entirely on the western side of 180 degrees longitude (at approx. 176 degrees longitude). Fiji has some land on either side, which is why it is included in the quiz, but Tuvalu is not.
If anyone else is confused like I was: the anti-meridian (180 degrees) is not the same as the international date line, and so part of mainland Russia and part of the US Aleutian Islands (part of Alaska) are crossed by 180 degrees. (I was so confused as to why Russia was included!)
So as I understand it, the question is: "Think of all the landmass to the east of the anti-meridian 180°. Name the 20 countries which lay on that land, from closest, to furthest"
But the180 degree meridian crosses Russia. I had the same thought as you at first, because the IDL does not cross it. Then I read the quiz description again. The IDL isn't relevant.
Edit for French2010's comment: That, I do not know. I don't know about Columbia, my comment was directed to rohfi.
It's annoying that words like province, region, state, department etc are so inconsistently applied around the world...!
Now have this image of them peeping around the corner (of the map) haha ( and now of a cat trying to look behind a mirror.. :D I know, my mind works in mysterious ways ;) )
And why not ? :(
Quizzes always exclude them (cuz people think it's hard)
*Misses Cuba*
*Interesting Facts #426: Cuba is further west than Peru.*
Ironic