Distributions of the molecular clouds’ properties (see Sect. 3.3). The panels show: the distributions of a sum of the window function weights, Σ_iw_i, which we used as a proxy for the weighted areal number density (a); the separation between the nearest neighbour clouds, r_nnb (b); the absolute value of the nearest neighbour velocity, |v_nnb| (c); the virial mass, M_vir (d); size (e); linewidth (f); CO line luminosity, (g); and the probability (h; see panel d of Fig. 4). The red and grey histograms show the distributions of the cloud properties for the data points inside and outside the 30Dor aperture, respectively. The 30Dor aperture was centred on R136, assuming a radius of 100 pc. The vertical blue lines show the medians of the distributions: 30Dor (dashed) and field (i.e. outside 30Dor; solid). The y axes are shown using a logarithmic scale. We note that the Σ_iw_i, r_nnb, |v_nnb| distributions show a clear difference between the 30Dor region and the rest of the observed field as opposed to all the other properties analysed.