Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

31 March 2020

Where are the largest caches?

Last week I determined the size of the size groups that are available in geocaching. This week I use those values to calculate which country has on average the  biggest caches. As usual with these list topped with countries that have a few large caches. In this case the one large cache of US Minor Outlying Islands is enough to offset the three other smalls to give it the number one position with more than sixteen litres.

Again I make a table with the average size for countries with more than ten thousands caches:
Netherlands2.222
Czechia1.972
Australia1.746
Switzerland1.657
Belgium1.505
Slovakia1.476
Germany1.454
Canada1.260
United States1.238
Norway1.231
Austria1.177
South Africa1.168
Denmark1.148
Sweden1.136
Finland1.108
New Zealand1.095
Poland1.048
Portugal0.990
Spain0.888
France0.859
Ireland0.780
United Kingdom0.694
Italy0.603
Japan0.438
We can see that this weeks winner is The Netherlands with more than two point two liters. Number to with just under two liters is Czechia and third place is for Australia with one and three quarters of a litre.

In the bottom we see the United Kingdom with almost seven hundreds  millilitres. Italy with six hundreds millilitres and Japan in last place with an average cache size of less than half of a litre.

11 February 2020

What's the most favourite geocaching country?

I'm not wondering in what country the most favourites are given. That is bound to be the country with the most caches: The United States has accumulated almost four hundred thousands favourites with overr one million caches.

When we look to the number of favourites per cache. We get the extreme results for countries with very few caches. The nine caches of Vatican City have accumulated almost three thousand favourites. We see also big numbers for Gibraltar, Sint Maarten, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Monaco.

At the other side, there's only one cache in Eritrea and Guinea-Bissau both have not gotten a favourite yet, and neither have the nine caches in Comoros.

When we look at only countries with a decent number of caches, where I define a decent number as at least ten thousands caches. The following list appears:
Netherlands29.3
Czechia20.5
Germany16.9
Belgium16.8
Switzerland16.7
Austria13.2
Finland11.3
Denmark10.5
Slovakia7.8
Portugal7.2
Ireland6.8
United Kingdom6.1
Sweden6.0
Norway5.0
Australia4.7
New Zealand4.4
Spain4.2
France4.0
Italy3.9
United States3.8
Canada3.4
South Africa3.0
Poland2.5
Japan1.0
The country with the most favourites is The Netherlands with an average of almost thirty favourites per cache. Followed by Czechia with more than twenty. Runners up are Germany, Belgium and Switzerland with almost seventeen favourites per cache.

The glorious winner of the absolute numbers end in the bottom five, only leaving behind Canada, South Africa, Poland and Japan.