Regions

The whole world is divided into regions. Most regions are political. A region can have sub regions. The biggest regions are states (e.g. Germany). These are mostly divided into smaller regions, like federal states (e.g. Bavaria). The number of lower levels differs from country to country (it could be up to 7 or more sub levels).

To obtain this division tree we use OpenStreetmap data via Nominatim Services.

Each such region can generate up to two bonus badges.

If you long press on an already played quadrant in the app you see the hierachy of regions this quadrant belongs to (from d0 = country level at the bottom till d4 / d5 / d6 at the top). The name of the region can have a suffix:

Note: The list of regions to score, i.e. generate such badges, is manually redacted based on play activity and depth in hierarchy among other criteria. A part of this decision process is visualized on these page: Region Badges Preview. Also see the corresponding part of our FAQ.

Note: There is a time delay for mapper badges. This is for a bit of data hiding and (some kind of) privacy, as a mapper badge actually indicates, you have played in that place, unlike ruler badges which might go to players who have never been in that particular region, but their badges have been dropped by other players.

Note: When new players start playing, their first two regions are “activated” even if there is less activity than would usually be required to award badges. This is to encourage new players and adapt the number of regions locally.

To determine to which region a quadrant belongs, Badgers actually uses OSM service Nominatim. Such a mapping can be non unique, i.e. some quadrants overlap two or more regions. To get a one to one correspondence, the region of the center of a quadrant in the sense of Nominatim is considered the region a quadrant belongs to. Ah, well, and sometimes, if it is feasible or way too bad, we manually improve Nominatim mappings in our database.

Latest Region transfers

#Mapper of Fahner Höhe to #Leckmuschel.
25.06.2025

Player Leckmuschel takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Mapper of Bad Peterstal-Griesbach to #olifant.
25.06.2025

Player olifant takes. #Mapper #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Kreis Dithmarschen to #_yak.
25.06.2025

Player _yak takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Seeland to #MasterFlo.
25.06.2025

Player MasterFlo takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Aschersleben to #jenzanos.
25.06.2025

Player jenzanos takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Mitte to #olilo.
25.06.2025

Player olilo takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Radebeul to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Moritzburg to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Pieschen to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Neustadt to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Klotzsche to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Cotta to #VincentVega23.
25.06.2025

Player VincentVega23 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Blasewitz to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Altstadt to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Dresden to #drii.
25.06.2025

Player drii takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Speyer to #XLV1.
25.06.2025

Player XLV1 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Verbandsgemeinde Römerberg-Dudenhofen to #XLV1.
25.06.2025

Player XLV1 takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Königswinter to #Aguti.
25.06.2025

Player Aguti takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis to #Aguti.
25.06.2025

Player Aguti takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO

#Ruler of Stadtbezirk Bonn to #T-Rex.
25.06.2025

Player T-Rex takes. #Ruler #badgersMMO