France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12.
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Source: Wikipedia/List of time zones by country
Posted by yash4k
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France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12.
Made using Photoshop
Source: Wikipedia/List of time zones by country
Posted by yash4k
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Why is Antarctica on the list of countries?
Thinking for two seconds about how to improve the chart: make the bars two colored, one for main territory and one for over seas territories.
Take that British empire, signed France
A bit confused about Denmark.
I guess Faroe Islands and Greenland counts for Denmark as well?
But in that case it should be 6, according to wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Danish_Realm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Danish_Realm)
To note that France’s Clipperton Island (the only territory sitting at UTC-08:00) is not inhabited and disputed with Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_France
Oh…islands around the world owned by the country, was so confused at first
It’s a little known trivia fact, but France is indeed the country with the most time zones on the planet.
OP’s infographic mentions 12 time zones, which is still the most out of any other country, but France actually has 13 time zones counting the one in Terre Adélie (claims in Antarctica).
The sun truly never sets on the French Republic.
How does New Zealand work? I was there for 5 weeks but didn’t see anything about time zones
France has 13 if you include its claim in Antarctica.
To be “beautiful data” it *really* should have a footnote on the visualization itself about including (recognized) overseas territories. Otherwise most people looking at it are going to immediately think to themselves “that can’t be right”.
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