Favourite Balkan Country in Europe

[Tenn]

I am pretty sure this is based on google search.

[Jana]

I am pretty sure this is based on google search.

I doubt it.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Well, just as I thought, at least in the case of Portugal it must be related to the number of Google searches. Montenegro has a stratospheric difference compared to other countries for the reasons I have already stated.

Searches done on google.pt, using the names of each country in the Portuguese language, this is the order you get by number of entries:

Montenegro - 859 000 000
Grécia - 87 900 000
Croácia - 41 600 000
Bulgária - 34 100 000
Sérvia - 31 300 000
Bósnia e Herzegovina - 23 000 000
Albânia - 22 500 000
Macedónia do Norte - 11 500 000
Roménia - 10 900 000
Eslovénia - 10 200 000

Greece and Croatia realistically are the most popular countries actually, unsurprisingly, and it makes more sense than Montenegro.

[Tenn]

I doubt it.

UK likes Albania ? Sure I have seen many British people go to Albania and they say they love it so could be believeable indeed but on the other hand Albanians were on UK news frequently as exceptional engineers

[Jana]

UK likes Albania ? Sure I have seen many British people go to Albania and they say they love it so could be believeable indeed but on the other hand Albanians were on UK news frequently as exceptional engineers

I know Kosovar Albanian singers like Dua Lipa or Rita Ora are very popular in UK, and maybe they don't know what Kosovo is so they went for Albania.

[Tenn]

I know Kosovar Albanian singers like Dua Lipa or Rita Ora are very popular in UK, and maybe they don't know what Kosovo is so they went for Albania.

Yeah, it is possible that is the case too. Some UK politics/politicians so far seem pro-Kosovar compared to even the US.

[Tommie]

Well, just as I thought, at least in the case of Portugal it must be related to the number of Google searches. Montenegro has a stratospheric difference compared to other countries for the reasons I have already stated.

Searches done on google.pt, using the names of each country in the Portuguese language, this is the order you get by number of entries:

Montenegro - 859 000 000
Grécia - 87 900 000
Croácia - 41 600 000
Bulgária - 34 100 000
Sérvia - 31 300 000
Bósnia e Herzegovina - 23 000 000
Albânia - 22 500 000
Macedónia do Norte - 11 500 000
Roménia - 10 900 000
Eslovénia - 10 200 000

Greece and Croatia realistically are the most popular countries actually, unsurprisingly, and it makes more sense than Montenegro.

I'm suprised to see Serbia, Bosnia and Albania being more popular than Romania

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

I'm a bit suprised to see Serbia, Bosnia and Albania being more popular than Romania

Yes, me too. It must be because we write Roménia and not Romênia as in Brazil, so entries in Brazilian Portuguese are excluded. Romênia has 19 900 000 entries, so if you were to add them to the entries of Roménia, the total would be 30 800 000.

[ooops]

This map is very inaccurate. Greece is the most liked everywhere in Europe and maybe Croatia in some countries.

[Zohor]

most liked =/= most popular

If we were to talk about most popular countries then it would be basically Greece, Croatia and Serbia, also Romania for Moldova ofc.
Since it's about most liked tho then we would have to look up to some symapthy towards countries stats, but it's still not very relatable. The beauty of statistics, you have graphs but also you would have to ask thousands or people when most of them don't see much difference, otherwise it's just an easy number to manipulate

I guess even among groups of people on TA by nationality we would get different results