cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3788390
Repost from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8qt94a/endianess_of_date_and_address_formats_in_europe/
On the reddit comments some user wrote the address format for Russia is wrong on this map, they use big-endian as well.
Also Hungary is the only country in Europe where we use big endianness in names, aka Eastern name order: surname first, firstname second.
Is the Wikipedia article on granularity wrong when it says the USA uses middle-endian addresses when there's both an apartment and a street address, e.g. "200 2nd Ave. South #358"?
For me big endian is logical, while middle endian just seems batshit insane.
While English messes up 11-19 when saying or writing with words, other languages like German keep up the ridiculous small-endian names even after 20 (einundzwanzig is "one and twenty").