World Riichi Map
This was a map project undertaken by Jellicode. He recently recruited me as one of its caretakers, and I accepted. Any more information about this, I shall direct you to his entry.
Ever since I was a child in the USA, I have a personal fascination with maps. One thing I used to do as a school boy: turn to the encyclopedias and look into the different countries and maps. From there, I turned to Atlases and Road Maps. Back then, the Internet was not everywhere as it was today. We had to look at printed material for our directional information. Even today, I am an avid map reader.
With that said, I'll highlight some interesting notes about this map.
Something I noted in my previous article comparing riichi mahjong 10 years ago vs now. Looking at North America, it really shows how far we've gotten as a mahjong community. Sure, we have some large gaps of area without any mahjong club within an 100 mile radius. On the other hand, we have a fairly good distribution of clubs across the different regions. Collectively, we should be able to continue spreading this game in more parts of the continent.
Not surprisingly, the European mahjong scene is dense, where clusters of clubs are well within reasonable travel distance from each other. This is especially apparent in the low countries and in Silesia. This concentration of mahjong players all over Europe is largely connected to the European Mahjong Association (EMA). They've had 10 years of mahjong work ahead of their counterparts across the Atlantic.
The Russian mahjong scene has enough mahjong activity to function on their own. In large part, they actually do. Even very remote parts of Russia has some mahjong activity, namely in eastern parts of the country. These clubs are far closer to Japan than to the rest of the country.
Indonesia has some healthy mahjong activity, with groups in the country's major populated areas. Access to their community can be found here.
Surprisingly, China is pretty much blank. However, any mahjong player should be aware of the mahjong activity there. It's everywhere. We simply do not have information of club activity there.
Last and not least, we have our friends in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and South America. Given the global population distribution, ninety percent of people live in the Northern Hemisphere. This correlates to the distribution of mahjong clubs all over.
With that said, I'll be happy to be part of this project and looking over mahjong activity everywhere. Thanks to the 2017 World Riichi Championship, many of us had the nice opportunity to meet a number of mahjong players from all of these regions.
Ever since I was a child in the USA, I have a personal fascination with maps. One thing I used to do as a school boy: turn to the encyclopedias and look into the different countries and maps. From there, I turned to Atlases and Road Maps. Back then, the Internet was not everywhere as it was today. We had to look at printed material for our directional information. Even today, I am an avid map reader.
With that said, I'll highlight some interesting notes about this map.
Something I noted in my previous article comparing riichi mahjong 10 years ago vs now. Looking at North America, it really shows how far we've gotten as a mahjong community. Sure, we have some large gaps of area without any mahjong club within an 100 mile radius. On the other hand, we have a fairly good distribution of clubs across the different regions. Collectively, we should be able to continue spreading this game in more parts of the continent.
Not surprisingly, the European mahjong scene is dense, where clusters of clubs are well within reasonable travel distance from each other. This is especially apparent in the low countries and in Silesia. This concentration of mahjong players all over Europe is largely connected to the European Mahjong Association (EMA). They've had 10 years of mahjong work ahead of their counterparts across the Atlantic.
The Russian mahjong scene has enough mahjong activity to function on their own. In large part, they actually do. Even very remote parts of Russia has some mahjong activity, namely in eastern parts of the country. These clubs are far closer to Japan than to the rest of the country.
Indonesia has some healthy mahjong activity, with groups in the country's major populated areas. Access to their community can be found here.
Surprisingly, China is pretty much blank. However, any mahjong player should be aware of the mahjong activity there. It's everywhere. We simply do not have information of club activity there.
Last and not least, we have our friends in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and South America. Given the global population distribution, ninety percent of people live in the Northern Hemisphere. This correlates to the distribution of mahjong clubs all over.
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| Pictured: Amauri from BRA (left), Maya from JPN (left center), myself from USA (right center), and Matias from ARG (right). |
With that said, I'll be happy to be part of this project and looking over mahjong activity everywhere. Thanks to the 2017 World Riichi Championship, many of us had the nice opportunity to meet a number of mahjong players from all of these regions.
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