u/DM_me_fun_stuff_pls — reddlx

If I were to make a survey on the regions of the US, which regions would be a must to include?

I have recently done a survey on the regions on europe and posted the results on r/MapPorn . Now I was thinking about doing a similar one on the US. It just seems that there are a LOT of regions and subregions one could divide the US into. Of course I would include big ones like Northeast, Midwest, South and West. And then a bit more specific ones, like New England, Mid-Atlantic, South-Atlantic, Pacific, Mountain States,...

But I was also thinking about including less strictly defined regions, like Wild West or Deep South.

What would be some must haves, that I should include?
I know much less about US geography and culture than Europe, so I'm not sure which are more important or interesting.
I aim to have about 30-40 regions max.

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u/DM_me_fun_stuff_pls — 1 day ago

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[Results] The preliminary results of the recent survey on the regions of Europe I did here. (Everyone)

Link to the survey if you haven't taken it yet: https://forms.gle/zJurFZAQ8JMaFtQH8

Posted it over on r/MapPorn, thought I would also share it here since some were very keen on the results, and since you people were really helpful :)

If there is interest I will follow up on the more granular regions that were also included in the survey.

u/DM_me_fun_stuff_pls — 3 days ago

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The major Regions of Europe, according to a Reddit survey

Recently did a survey over on r/SampleSize on the major regions of Europe, since these are a frequent cause of discussion here on reddit. These are the preliminary results after a bit over 60 responses.
The survey allowed respondends to pick multiple regions for each country if they found it to be fitting.
This sample size is of course still quite low, so if you want to take the survey yourself: https://forms.gle/zJurFZAQ8JMaFtQH8
I would love to see more responses from people into geography!

For now this is a breakdown of the five big basic categories. The survey includes a lot of other more granular categories (like balkans, scandinavia, baltics, ...), that I would love to follow up on, if there is interest. However for these I have not gotten enough responses yet for it to feel representative.

Important things to note:

The first map uses the total votes and assigns each country the region which obtained the most votes, while the pie charts show the vote distributions for each country. I think this shows very neatly why there often is so much discussion on these regions here on reddit. Like Germany being very split between central and western europe, or the balkans being split between southern and eastern europe.

For the choropleth maps, I normalized over the most answered response for each region. So 100% does not mean that 100% of respondends picked this country, but that this country was the most picked one in this particular region. (Although most of the time it was close to 100%)

u/DM_me_fun_stuff_pls — 3 days ago