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I can't find Portugal. I expect

  Portugal----Spain-+-----------+-France----[Many ¿7?]≡≡≡≡[Whatever, I give up]
                     \-Andorra-/
but I can't find it.

I think the map in the main article and the graph in the game ignore exclaves and other weird topological parts of countries, but they may be ignoring or counting them in different ways.

Spain has another land border.

Oh! They included Morocco but not the United Kingdom. an interesting editorial decision.

Anecdote time: A few years ago we made a math exposition and we wanted to show something about the Four Color Theorem. We were advice to not use a real map, because each country has their own claims and somebody somewhere may complain.

They included Morocco but not the United Kingdom

Yes that confused me too. If they included Morocco, then France should border Brazil and Suriname.

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