Is there a chance to get certain locations into or out of when determining the percentage of visited parts of a country? [closed]

Question

Or is this a thing where only the GC headquarter decides on?

In my observation I visited 100% of New Zealand when I was there in 2018. 2 years later I had to find out that I only had 2/3 of this country as there was unexpected some islands to be needed to visit and find there a cache. These islands are so small that they contain less than 1 per mille of the area of New Zealand. Why should it be necessary to go there to get 100% of NZ?

Answer 1

Apart from the answer by pinkunicorn Project-GC will match the regions of Geocaching.com when Geocaching.com has regions. Since Geocaching.com uses the regions North Island, South Island and Chatham Islands then Project-GC will use the same regions. If Geocaching.com changes the regions then Project-GC will change them too. Geocaching.com generally changes regions when there has been political updates by the local government. This is not instant and it takes some time for Geocaching.com to update and then further time for Project-GC to follow with the update, that's why you've seen the change recently even though it politically might not be as recent.

Answer 2

This kind of thing has nothing to do with HQ. It has to do with how the country has defined its regions.

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If you have a follow-up question like this, post that in the same thread as the original, otherwise the second question becomes unintelligible.

I am talking about the government.