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... The reason is pretty obvious: Catalonia is not recognized as an official independent state on the world map by default, which is understandable, though presents an undesirable situation for people that want exhaustive visual representation of our game history on the map.
I also assume this is the case for other nations in a similar position that have flags not official independence like Wales.
I think that this could be fixed by having Catalan, Welsh, etc. flags appear in the nation they are assigned to on the map. You could even display it in such a way where it would go:
UK
12 Games
(2 Wales)
OR
Spain
6 Games
(2 Catalonia)
Or, better yet, holding the cursor over UK will display at the top the UK flag, and then below it all the data for Wales, Isle of Man, etc... and Spain will include the data for Catalonia and Galicia (I believe Galicia also has their own flag on this website but don't quote me on that).
Now there is the question of Singapore and potentially other states that are too small to show up on the geographic insights map as well... You could do something like make Singaporese flags show up under Malaysia since it is the closest bordering nation.
A similar principle could be followed in covering other very small nations that fail to show up easily on the map.
I understand there is a certain controversy here because these smaller states often have difficult histories with the larger states they would be filed under, but it makes sense.
For an area with many small states, like the Caribbean, you could have an area just to the southwest of the DOminican Republic/Haiti pop up and display all data for the various Caribbean states. As it stands, it appears the data for Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas appears, but I know that everyone from Bermuda to Curacao is actually represented among the beautiful flags.
Lastly, I want to say that the map is quite good overall
Fun bonus info: the programmers meticulously made it so that the Canary Islands off the cost of Africa do bring up the Spanish flag, so I would like to think somebody had a nice vacay and was giving a special shoutout to all of the Chicharerros.