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Europe Most & least interesting regions of Europe for sightseeing

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Most of Europe is now covered by the Eupedia Travel Guide (EU + Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, but without Cyprus and Malta). The map below ranks regions of Europe from the most to the least interesting for sightseeing based on the density and rating of cities, towns, castles ans well as naturals parks and other attractions. The map division is based on the EU's NUTS2 regions, although a few regions were merged to restore historical regions or present states (e.g. Bavaria and Lower Saxony). As NUTS2 regions were created taking populations into account, regions with high population densities like England and the Benelux have smaller land areas. It's actually suitable for the purpose of this map, as more densely populated regions tend to have a greater density of attractions as well.

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Seems weird that there is such a stark differencce between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Historically it used to be basically one region.
 
Did you personally count tourist attractions for each region, or is it based on some sort of publicly available dataset?
 
Tomenable said:
Did you personally count tourist attractions for each region, or is it based on some sort of publicly available dataset?
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It is based on the number of tourist attractions and their ratings in the Eupedia travel guide, which hopefully covers most of the attractions in each country and region after a major expansion this year. But if two regions of very different sizes have about the same number of attractions with similar ratings, the smaller region will be ranked as more interesting as it has a higher density of attractions per square kilometer.

But that doesn't mean that all the densely populated regions necessarily have an advantage. For example parts of Central England (West Midlands, Lancashire, West Yorkshire), as well as the Ruhr Valley in North Rhine-Westphalia are very populous but have lots of ugly industrial cities of very limited tourist interest.
 
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Tomenable said:
Seems weird that there is such a stark differencce between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Historically it used to be basically one region.
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That doesn't mean anything. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has more interesting historical cities like Schwerin, Wismar, Rostock or Stralsund. In West Pomerania in Poland, the main historical city of Szczecin was badly damaged during WWII and there is little else to see in that region.
 
Nice map, saved it for future reference. A few things that caught my attention:
- Mainland Greece being considered so “uninteresting”
- Saxony and the Stockholm area being on par with the likes of Tuscany, Campania, Sicily and Brittany
- the Madrid region as the most interesting in Spain, well above Catalonia
- Lombardy not being dark green
 
Degredado said:
Nice map, saved it for future reference. A few things that caught my attention:
- Mainland Greece being considered so “uninteresting”
- Saxony and the Stockholm area being on par with the likes of Tuscany, Campania, Sicily and Brittany
- the Madrid region as the most interesting in Spain, well above Catalonia
- Lombardy not being dark green
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I confirm that this is not a mistake. Please refer to the travel section on Eupedia to compare the attractions in these regions.
 
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