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There's been an interesting response to http://www.constructaregion.org.uk ...
I switched on some rather primitive logging last Friday and so far 55 people have entered 92 different regions for analysis.
The top scoring region with 6 votes is Cornwall. Followed by Yorkshire and London with 5 votes.
Even though Cornwall has only around half a million residents, this still makes it bigger than Wyoming or the sovereign states of Luxembourg and Malta.
The other two high scoring regions are much larger. London is considerably bigger - larger than 12 German Laender (including Berlin), bigger than 40 US states, bigger than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and 11 members of the EU.
Yorkshire in turn is larger than 11 German Laender, 30 US states, marginally smaller than Scotland and larger than 8 countries of the EU.
Obviously it's currently too small a base to draw any comparisons - but there's obviously a wide diversity of options that people want to look at (92 so far from only 55 people). The most popular regions for investigation have some kind of historical basis for their boundaries and strong local identity. There is massive diversity in scale for the regions being looked at (in common with all the regional systems used for ConstructARegion's benchmarking. Only British civil servants and Labour politicians appear to want tidy regions of equal size and no historical identity.
For those who want to see the latest charts, they are at http://www.constructaregion.org.uk/charts.php .
I switched on some rather primitive logging last Friday and so far 55 people have entered 92 different regions for analysis.
The top scoring region with 6 votes is Cornwall. Followed by Yorkshire and London with 5 votes.
Even though Cornwall has only around half a million residents, this still makes it bigger than Wyoming or the sovereign states of Luxembourg and Malta.
The other two high scoring regions are much larger. London is considerably bigger - larger than 12 German Laender (including Berlin), bigger than 40 US states, bigger than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and 11 members of the EU.
Yorkshire in turn is larger than 11 German Laender, 30 US states, marginally smaller than Scotland and larger than 8 countries of the EU.
Obviously it's currently too small a base to draw any comparisons - but there's obviously a wide diversity of options that people want to look at (92 so far from only 55 people). The most popular regions for investigation have some kind of historical basis for their boundaries and strong local identity. There is massive diversity in scale for the regions being looked at (in common with all the regional systems used for ConstructARegion's benchmarking. Only British civil servants and Labour politicians appear to want tidy regions of equal size and no historical identity.
For those who want to see the latest charts, they are at http://www.constructaregion.org.uk/charts.php .
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