Quiet gaming groups outside the anglophone web

tl:dr; ~3/4 of D&D is played in North America but signs point to non-anglophone communities who are not in contact with the online chatter

Drawing on a variety of geographical locator data (survey responses, google analytics) the regional origin of players was plotted.

Poll responses and self-identification measures are dominated by north America, especially the USA. Stability of output over multiple methods and time sources gives general confidence in the output.

Most interesting is the presence of multiple TTRPG tagged Meetup.com groups in Asia despite low participation in forums, surveys and polls indicating a far large scene than is commonly known as described in an article by Hao Zhang of Labyrinth Culture for Pelgrane.

Following this up, the question becomes whether TTRPGs are a English-language phenomenon (or at least throttled in non-English language environments) or whether there are large existing communities organising and communicating using other sites or media such as chat apps.

My hypothesis is that these communities exist - I would welcome any reader who has first hand knowledge of what channels are used to organise games in non-Anglophone settings. Living in a non-Anglophone country I know there is a local language RPG society and an Anglophone one with little cross-over between them both.