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:

Netherlands	2.222
Czechia	1.972
Australia	1.746
Switzerland	1.657
Belgium	1.505
Slovakia	1.476
Germany	1.454
Canada	1.260
United States	1.238
Norway	1.231
Austria	1.177
South Africa	1.168
Denmark	1.148
Sweden	1.136
Finland	1.108
New Zealand	1.095
Poland	1.048
Portugal	0.990
Spain	0.888
France	0.859
Ireland	0.780
United Kingdom	0.694
Italy	0.603
Japan	0.438

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.

Which is Einsteins most favourite geocaching country?

A few weeks ago we looked at which country had the most favourites per cache. But as Albert Einstein teached us: "Every thing is relative". So this week we don't look at the number of favourites an average cache scores, but to the favourites relative to the number of found logs in a country.

When we look at the numbers we see again the countries with few caches score the extremes. Yemen with only two caches with eighteen founds and five favourite ends in the first place with almost thirty percent favourites per log. Second are the Wallis and Futuna Islands which only cache collects with twenty five percent favourites. Third place for Tonga with just under twenty five percent favourites.

Again we look at the countries with at least ten thousands of  caches. Then we got the following result:

Switzerland	7.4%
Netherlands	7.0%
Belgium	6.8%
Germany	6.6%
Ireland	6.3%
Austria	5.8%
Denmark	5.8%
Norway	5.5%
Sweden	5.4%
United Kingdom	5.0%
New Zealand	5.0%
South Africa	4.9%
Finland	4.8%
Australia	4.7%
Italy	4.6%
France	4.5%
Canada	4.5%
Spain	4.5%
Slovakia	4.3%
Czechia	4.1%
Portugal	4.1%
United States	3.9%
Poland	3.2%
Japan	3.1%

Who would expect the country Einstein moved to in 1895 and became a citizen of in 1901 would be his favourite country.

When we compare this week top with that of a tree weeks ago, we see the Netherlands has dropped one place with seven precent. Belgium gained one place and Germany lost one. The last country with more than six percent favourites per log is Ireland.

Where are the most favorite caches in The Netherlands?

Last week we saw that in The Netherlands on average caches are rewarded with almost thirty favourites. This week I show you where the caches with the most favourites can be found.

The map below combines two statistics the number of caches determines the opacity, where the areas that are the most transparent have the fewest caches and the most opaque ones the most. The average number of favourites sets the hue. The hottest cache area, those with the most favourites are coloured red. Blue for the area with the least caches and green is in between.

The top area for favourites with almost one hundred and eighty favourites per cache is Malden near Nijmegen. Many caches by remralcache make this happen.

Near Apeldoorn there are two hot spots. One with almost one hundred and ten in Uchelen. Another one in Beekbergen with almost one hunderd favoures per cache. In the first area we see many high rated caches by Geo Chaos and in the second by Josvstaalduinen.

Next is Hippolytushoef where De Bosmannetjes have created many interesting caches giving this area an average of almost eighty favourites per cache. The caches of djpebe helped Helmond to be in the fifth place with just under sixty favourites per cache.

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:

Netherlands	29.3
Czechia	20.5
Germany	16.9
Belgium	16.8
Switzerland	16.7
Austria	13.2
Finland	11.3
Denmark	10.5
Slovakia	7.8
Portugal	7.2
Ireland	6.8
United Kingdom	6.1
Sweden	6.0
Norway	5.0
Australia	4.7
New Zealand	4.4
Spain	4.2
France	4.0
Italy	3.9
United States	3.8
Canada	3.4
South Africa	3.0
Poland	2.5
Japan	1.0

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.