Poll: Where are you currently living?

&gt;Southern North America (eg. Mexico)<p>&gt;Northern part of South America<p>&gt;Souther part of South America<p>Looks needlessly fragmented and imprecise. What is &#x27;Southern part of South America&#x27;? Cono Sur? Then Brazilians from Minas Gerais and Porto Alegre are in different groups? Was that the intention? Why &#x27;Southern North America&#x27; and not Central America? Where does Caribbean belong? Middle Asia (say, Kazakhstan)? Is Spain Western Europe or Southern Europe? Is Czech Republic Eastern Europe or Western Europe (since you don&#x27;t offer &#x27;Central Europe&#x27; as an option and some Czechs may be unhappy with identifying as Eastern Europeans)? Is Estonia in Eastern Europe? It damn well is in Eastern Europe, but some Estonians identify Estonia as Scandinavian.<p>Next time you guys should use some well established scheme such as this one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;United_Nations_geoscheme</a> and just link to it in the post so no one is confused.

You can&#x27;t have a &quot;western europe excl UK&quot; and then a &quot;southern europe&quot;. Italy and Spain are for sure in both categories.

Population (in millions):<p><pre><code> USA 316.8 Canada: 35.1 Southern North America: 176.6 Northern part of South America: ? Southern part of South America: ? ...South America: 387.4 UK: 62.2 Scandinavia: 25.7 Western Europe (excl. UK): 278.7 Eastern Europe: 176.7 Southern Europe &#x2F; Mediterranean Europe: 153.5 Russia: 142.2 Northern Africa: ? Southern Africa: ? ...Africa: 1032.5 Middle East: 370.9 India: 1210.2 China: 1353.8 South East Asia: 610.0 Australia and New Zealand: 35.6 Japan: 126.6 South Korea: 50.2 Other: ?</code></pre>

I am from Jaipur, India. Many I times I am detestful of the fact that I don&#x27;t live in big cities like Mumbai or Bangalore. I don&#x27;t hear of any programming meetups that happen here, neither there are any conferences, nor any startup that has bubbled up. The first thing that I want to do after my graduation is to move in to a big city because socializing with smart people is the most recurring advice I have heard for ambitious freshers.

Histogram of current standings:<p><a href="http://quickhist.onloop.net/USA=601,Canada=104,Southern%20North%20America%20%28eg.%20Mexico%29=10,Northern%20part%20of%20South%20America=2,Southern%20part%20of%20South%20America=28,UK=20,Scandinavia%28incl.%20Finland%20and%20Iceland%29=7,Western%20Europe%28excl.%20UK%29=27,Eastern%20Europe=14,Russia=2,Northern%20Africa=2,Southern%20Africa%28not%20only%20South%20Africa%29=2,Middle%20East%28excl.%20Egypt-%3EN-Africa%29=7,India=33,China=28,South%20East%20Asia=29,Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand%28apparently%20called%20Australasia%29=88,Other=7,Southern%20Europe%20or%20Mediterranean%20Europe=3,Japan=7,South%20Korea=4/Where%20are%20you%20currently%20living%3F%20-%20HN%20Poll,%20Oct%2021%20%2713" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickhist.onloop.net&#x2F;USA=601,Canada=104,Southern%20No...</a>

Given how many more votes US has than anything else, I think breaking it down would be warranted.<p>I&#x27;m thinking:<p>* San Fransisco Bay area * Seattle&#x2F;Redmond area * Other west coast * Boston&#x2F;Cambridge * New York * Other east coast * Chicago * Ann Arbor * Austin * Other noncoastal

Not putting Brazil there is kinda silly, specially when it is a country that spans so much of South America that I bet some brazillians will put north south america while others will put south south america... (Also important: brazil vs rest of south america is more relevant, considering brazil went with a fairly unique culture, ie: not hispaniard, also Argentina in comparison to the rest of South America has a very high amount of caucasians, making it also quite unique compared to the rest, although, ie: having a european culture mixed with spain culture, instead of the usual spain mixed with native america)

I live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.<p>99% of the time I have no regrets about moving here from the United States. That other 1% of the time when you are sick or require the services of the police, it&#x27;s not the best place to be. My insurance plan covers an airlift to Thailand in the event of a serious emergency.

Can we not just ask pg for the data?

Interesting that the ratio of Americans to Canadians is less than their respective populations.

Not that I really care, but you have no category that fits Taiwan. It is not really China and not Southeast Asia

Well, Portugal and Spain are at the most West of all Europe(Finisterre, Lisbon, Canary and Açores Islands), and Portugal is not Mediterranean at all.

Don&#x27;t have enough karma so can&#x27;t vote. I&#x27;m from Malaysia.

Not to be US-centric, but it would be interesting to see the breakdown between East and West Coasts of the United States.

Will be interesting to see how this progresses as diff timezones wake up. It&#x27;s pretty Aus heavy at the moment as people like me procrastinate in the office.

In graph form :)<p><a href="http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6582647" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnlike.com&#x2F;hncharts&#x2F;chart&#x2F;?id=6582647</a>

As an Istanbulite (is that even a word?), I&#x27;m confused.<p>In day time, I&#x27;m usually in Asia for school, and some nights, and most weekends I&#x27;m in Eastern Europe.<p>Voted for Eastern Europe and Other (since this part of Asia is not in the list).

egypt so i am in two places at once and wikipedia confirms it<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;North_Africa</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Middle_East</a>

Where is Central Europe anyway? You have added Southern Europe after all.

Haha, no love for North Korea.

&quot;Southern Africa&quot;, by most definitions, excludes populous countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Southern_Africa</a><p>I think a better term would be &quot;Sub-Saharan Africa&quot;: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sub-Saharan_Africa</a><p>Also, missing: &quot;South Asia (excluding India)&quot;, which would cover an area with around 390 million people.

Instead of &quot;Southern North America (eg. Mexico)&quot;, a better name IMO would be &quot;Mexico, Caribbean or Central America&quot;.

I answered the same question recently on Quora: <a href="http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-some-cool-tech-companies-based-in-surprising-places-or-countries/answer/Oleg-Podsechin" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;Startups&#x2F;What-are-some-cool-tech-compan...</a><p>Hello to everyone else from Helsinki, Finland - we should organize a Hacker News meetup!

It says Southern Part of America (Antarctica anyone?)... and that&#x27;s kinda&#x27; vague.<p>It should say<p>Central America South America<p>I&#x27;m from Chile by the way.

I hope someone is keeping track of the votes along with the time data. That might be very interesting, as well.

Wow thanks a lot for indiscriminately lumping together Western Europe in a single, confusing category.

There is something that needs to be changed in this kind of pool. Every time the same misconception.<p>- North America<p>- Central America (Northern part of South America?)<p>- South America<p>This needs to be common knowledge.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Central_America</a>

I always thought that Scandinavia was part of Western Europe: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe#Population_of_Western_Europe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Western_Europe#Population_of_We...</a>

I am from Myanmar (aka Burma) :)

By northern part of South America do you mean Central America? It&#x27;s a fairly well established group of countries between (and excluding) Mexico (&quot;North America&quot;) and Colombia (&quot;South America&quot;)!<p>Australian in Costa Rica.

NOT everyone who reads Hacker News has an account to vote. It would be really nice to have Paul Graham release the analytics data on for HN. That way we can see where all the HN visitors are coming from.

I wonder how these results will compare to the geo analytics YC gets for HN

Other:<p>Antarctica?<p>I.S.S.?<p>Sealand?<p>:)<p>Edit: Uh oh, New Zealand isn&#x27;t covered.

Found this in a previous poll. Graph the results <a href="http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=6582647" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hnlike.com&#x2F;hncharts&#x2F;chart&#x2F;?id=6582647</a>

I&#x27;m in Western Virginia, not to be confused with West Virginia.

Where is the Americas option? I mean there is an Eastern Europe option, why single out USA and Canada? Maybe it&#x27;s worth singling out San Francisco &#x2F; California as well?

Since I work remotely, I can live and work anywhere. Right now I&#x27;m in Sayulita, Mexico for 6 months. I&#x27;ve been traveling from place to place for the last 5 years.

Central Europe = &quot;Other&quot; I guess :-&#x2F;<p>Edit: Actually, for the purposes of this poll Czech Republic is &quot;Eastern Europe&quot;, just don&#x27;t tell that to a Czech person ;)

I live just outside of London England (Essex for anyone that knows) and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll be moving a while. Apart from the weather it&#x27;s pretty good!

Ranked: <a href="http://hn-poll-rank.herokuapp.com/rank?post=6582647" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn-poll-rank.herokuapp.com&#x2F;rank?post=6582647</a>

It&#x27;s hard to know if you&#x27;re getting representative results. To get a reliable answer, one would need to look at the site admin stats.

New Hampshire baby!

Indonesia, anyone?

New York

North America, USA, North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Central Asia (incl. Former Soviet Republics)

In which category does Pakistan belong :(

Dublin, Ireland

Central America

Hi, I am from India planning to shift to US but this immigration laws will never let me to do so.<p>Any workaround for it ?

After Jan 3, subtract 1 from USA and tick an extra one to Australasia. I&#x27;m bound for Christchurch.

Voted for Western Europe. Afterwards I realized there was a Mediterranean Europe choice too. Oops...

I&#x27;m from Australia and know for a fact quite a few Australian&#x27;s frequent HN.

Is Rio de Janeiro Northern or Southern South America? Where did you draw the line?

Technically, I live in the USA... About 2,400 miles Southwest of Los Angeles.

Live in Melbourne Australia

Nepal

Dubai!

Israel

China

A little Buffalo, NY love?

I think it would be interesting to see where people were born as well.

Wow, more of us here in SE Asia than in Western Europe? Interesting.

Why? I think Chinese visitors should be significant amount

Berlin, Germany here.

Bangkok, Thailand :)

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Northern part of South America = Central America

Italy (or southern Europe)<p>edit: thanks for adding it to the list!

Central America?!

Tel Aviv, Israel.

Croatia - The Mediterranean as it once was :D

You could to increase the countries list, BTW

I&#x27;m from Russia and happy to stay here.

Hello World from Cairo - Egypt . anyone?

Puerto Rico.

I live in two countries. Hmmm

Turkey

Berlin. :)

Pakistan

Pakistan

Singapore

Scotland

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Hong Kong

Mexico

Greetings from Barcelona!

Kenya , in East Aftrica

Central America Panama

Philippines represent!

India is catching up.

The Netherlands here

Bay Area actually :)

San José, Costa Rica

Fuck yeah ozzies.

New Delhi, India.

Living in bangkok

São Paulo, Brasil

Anchorage Alaska

The Netherlands

South East Asia

Kenya - Africa

Greensboro, NC

Paris, France

South Africa

Philippines!

Afghanistan

Spain here.

Philippines

Sri Lanka

Turkey

Greece

Pakistan

Iran

Spain

Bulgaria

Spain

Algeria

Singapore

Pakistan

Romania

Jordan

India

Macau

Nepal

Nepal

한국 anyone?

China

Chile

nyc

China

greenland?

Iceland

china