What is a good criteria to organize countries of the world in a memory palace?

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Hi. I learned the 194 world sovereign countries, now I would like to put them in a memory palace to make sure the information will stick and I can rehearse it without a map.

What’s the best use of the order provided by a MP? Alphabetical would help only in children games like What’s a country that starts with V?

I would like to rank them by continent, so European countries all close, and inside continents, by population because I find this data more useful compared to territorial extension.

Do you think there is something more useful ? Like a way to keep neighbours even more close and help saying which other countries a country is surrounded by?

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I was going to say Timezone (which is a skill I wish I had), but there can be more than one timezone… So maybe range of Timezone somehow? Or chunk them by Timezone and have duplicates for countries with multiple timezones?

Century of founding? Might need to group those of similar magnitudes.

Political system?

Types of exports? Imports?

Official language?

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i like the time zone idea. i could rank them on the first time zone of the country and simply add a mark for the number of zone covered for those who have a multiple time zone territory. It’s a useful feature, i think

will think about it, thanks.