Yes it is. French Polynesia is to France what Guam is to USA. Alaska and Hawaii are to USA what Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, Mayotte and Reunion are to France
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"
Look at a map of the world. Do you see those lines that go up and down? Those are the longitudinal lines. They should be labeled with numbers between -180° and 180° and cross through countries. Name the countries with the lowest-value longitudinal lines crossing through them.
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.
I know this is about longitudes, but it still sounds silly to talk about "westernmost" places on Earth, which is not flat, and therefore you can always go further west, even from the –180 longitude. However, there are two places on Earth, where you CAN'T go further west, and those are the South and North Poles (because you can only step towards north and south, respectively). Perhaps the Poles are the westernmost places on Earth, then? LOL!
Yeah, that's one way to think about it, like the earth just kinda goes west/east forever, but (I know you're joking and you already know this) maps are usually depicted as countries like the US or Canada at the far west. Now that I think about it, I wonder why maps were depicted that way...
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