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by Analemma_ 3628 days ago
I'm surprised Portugal didn't score higher. One day in the car I randomly asked myself the same question of "which country is the most rectangular", and Portugal was the first one I thought of. Is it because the Azores were included? Would like to see the rank if they had only the mainland.
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My exact thought. But I'm Portuguese, so I'm biased.
Campeões!! Campeões!! Nós somos campeões!!
Polandball comics have been on the Portugal-is-a-rectangle trail for a while now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/300b86/portugal...

Including Azores definitely affected the final result. It's weird that other countries didn't have their islands include though
Others are also affected by islands and territories, see France with French Guyana etc, Norway with Svalbard etc. France is quite a square country if you only consider its mainland so it is an odd choice to include non mainland areas but I guess it is a difficult greyzone on what to include and not.
The French themselves refer to metropolitan France as l'Hexagone so it probably still would not be a square.
Somehow I was thinking about France with French Guyana but must have passed it.

As some have said, I'd like to check the impact of only using mainland in the calculations.

I'd say France is far more a pentagon than a rectangle.
One must not forget Madeira islands either