The large "Asia" region contains, besides Asian topics (the right half of the region):
- Language learning communities
- Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because of r/TibiaMMO)
- Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons)
Other European countries with funny locations:
- Germany in the soccer region (as Gary Lineker once famously said "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win")
>Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons)
could that have a real world reason given that Macau used to be a Portuguese colony as well as Brazil hosting the largest Japanese diaspora population in the world?
Unlikely, because virtually nobody in Macau speaks Portuguese anymore, and Reddit is not well known in Japan. Various Japan-related subreddits are very popular, but they're populated by English speakers living in Japan, travelling to Japan, etc.
Seems to be pure chance. r/brasil and others are in a very different place in the graph, and none of the subreddits related to r/portugal are connected to any of the Japanese/Chinese subreddits in the graph.
Cats contains the plant related reddits, and is tied to them via r/CatsAndPlants
(fair enough). It visibly looks like plants are also connected via r/michaelbaygifs, but that is only because of really odd placement for r/UnexpectedThugLife.
It would be nice if the shown links were not restricted to a single "country", as I bet r/dogsandplants (which is part of Cats) is tied to a bunch of dog reddits, but those are not shown.
- Language learning communities
- Latin America (except Brazil which is in the RPG region because of r/TibiaMMO)
- Italy, Spain and Portugal (the latter is located between China and Japan for mysterious low-dimensionality representation reasons)
Other European countries with funny locations:
- Germany in the soccer region (as Gary Lineker once famously said "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, in the end, the Germans always win")
- France in the Canada region (Quebec strong)
- The Netherlands in the EDM region