A significant minority of respondents to January’s Where on Eartha challenge suggested that the correct answer was Luxembourg, which was not entirely unexpected. It certainly fits the description of a “…capital city that appears to occupy a sizable portion of the land area of the country over which it presides,” and the borders of the country, or Grand Duchy, of Luxembourg show an uncanny resemblance to those portrayed in the thumbnail map.
Unfortunately (or fortunately if you guessed correctly), the actual city represented by the pushpin is Vaduz, which lies a little over 350km to the southeast of Luxembourg in the diminutive Principality of Liechtenstein, whose 160 square kilometers, comparable to the size of the District of Columbia, are nestled between Switzerland and Austria.
The first randomly selected e-mail with the correct response belongs to Wade DuMond of Nature Energies Inc. in Rochester, MN. Wade will shortly be receiving a copy of XMap Professional along with a USB GPS receiver.
This month the new Where on Eartha format affords us the luxury of a larger map which may or may not provide an easier Where on Eartha challenge. If you think you know which national capital is denoted by the pushpin, and you are interested in winning your own copy of XMap, write your response along with the name of the country in an e-mail and send it to contest@delorme.com to arrive in our inbox no later than March 12, 2010.
