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The Blonde Map of Europe

lloydshep | Dadblogging | Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

214 - The Blonde Map of Europe « strange maps:

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1. Its a topic to say that spanish are dark, it’s not real, in the north and central part of spain, there are many blond people

   Comment by Carls — December 25, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

2. Well, what the Spanish guy said is bulshit.

   Spain and Portugal are indeed “dark”. The south is more than 95% burnette. Though, we are not Morocans or North Africans, the Iberia Peninsula is pretty homogenious.
   The Northwest is the blondest area and the Southeast is the darker.
   In central Iberia, some 10% are blond and in the North it does not get into the 20% figure, except, maybe Galiza and Northwestern Portugal as well as Western and Nothern Asturias.

   If by many blond people you mean 15%, there are many blond people in North-Central Spain. But it is 10 blond girls for each fifteen tens of burnettes! If there are 5 million blonds in the entire Peninsula, there is too much already! Especially with all this unpleasent dark new immigrants!

   I saw recently some data about hair andd eye colour in the Peninsula:
   It is not homogeneous, the more to the Northwest, the more lighter it gets and the more you go Southeast the darker it gets.
   Black Hair- 30%
   Dark Brown Hair- 40%
   Light Brown Hair- 20%
   Blonde Hair- 10%
   Red Hair- less than 1%, more than 1% in the Northwest only (Minho, Galiza, Asturias and León).

   Eye colour:
   In the Northwest (Lighter) / In the Southeast (Darker):

   Brown eyes: 62% / 85%
   Green eyes: 20% / 10% (or mixed)
   Blue eyes: 18% / % 5%

   So, all this Southwestern European Peninsula is indeed dark.

   Comment by Hispano Celt — March 18, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

3. How did this information came about? Did they have questions about eye colour in the censuses or did some bloke stand in the corners counting the number of brunettes passing by?

   Comment by Bob — May 1, 2008 @ 7:39 pm

4. the region with the highest rate of blond people in Spain (with an important difference with other regions) is Murcia.

   Murcia is in the south east of iberical peninsula, in front of the coust of Argelia.

   Bullshit?.

   Comment by luis — June 1, 2008 @ 8:09 am

5. The data comes from antropological studies realised in the 1920s…
   and I believe it is plausible.

   Comment by Hispano Celt — November 22, 2008 @ 11:40 pm

6. This map was illegally copied from Eupedia.com. Here is the source page : http://www.eupedia.com/europe/maps_of_europe.shtml#hair_colour

   We have now replaced this map by a newer, more accurate version with an in-built link to prevent further unlawful usages.

   Comment by Eupedia — November 26, 2008 @ 10:07 am

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