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This Map Showing What Each Country Leads The World In IsReally Quite CoolWe’re suddenly not feeling quite so proud to be British.

posted on Oct. 21, 2013, at 10:57 a.m.

Robin Edds

BuzzFeed Staff, UK

Everyone thinks there’s something that they’re the best at. With the aid of this rather impressive map, website DOGHOUSEDIARIES

has put this to the test.

The map shows what almost every country is best at when compared to the rest of the world. Some are things that would make you

proud (Brazil), while others — like the U.K. — perhaps aren’t things you’d like to shout about. You can see the full map below, and

then we’ve split it up by continent.

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North and Central America.

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South America.


Europe.



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Africa and the Middle East.



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Asia and Australasia.



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Robin Edds is editor-at-large at BuzzFeed UK and is based in London.


And last, but not least, Antarctica.


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i think Pakistan has nothing to do with field hockey now.

We are proud of our brave Army, so it would be better to replace this by “Brave

Army”

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Hahaha. No. This is not a map of what toy think you’re good at, but what your

country is actually notable for.

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‘Murica

aniaaaabout a year ago

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Croatia not included :-(.

Also Australia, I promise, it’s actually not that dangerous here.

kristyk3about 2 years ago

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oh. really volcanoes? can anyone give better name

hanifahfabout 2 years ago

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Excuse me, but I choked on my tongue at Eire leading the world in QUALITY OF

LIFE. Pardon my sarcastic laughter, but: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA no.

telanorabout 2 years ago

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The one thing that sucks about this list is how many countries they’ve left out!

You’re prepared to cheat a little for countries like Burma and yet you can’t think of

ANYTHING for big countries like Sudan, Mozambique etc.? (and lots of others to)?

WTF?

geoffreyn4about 2 years ago

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Portugal is high school graduation and Spain is cocaine use- LOL!

geoffreyn4about 2 years ago

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Why is Nepal labelled “not killing themselves?” o_o

hinatathekawaiimonoabout 2 years ago

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Lesotho leads in mortality? Aren’t we all in a dead heat in that category?

natep9about 2 years ago

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For those wondering what Singapore says, it is “science”

mattabout 2 years ago

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Greenland = “Personal Space” ROFLMAO. Well, yeah.

I can see a Greenlandic version of Oprah now: “You get a thousand acres of ice,

you get a thousand acres of ice, you ALL get a thousand acres of ice!!!! Woo Hoo!!!”

:-D

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Correction, Turkey leads the world of Genocide perpetrators and deniers, not

Apricots!

Official Latin name of Apricot is Prunus Armeniaca, i.e. Armenian Prunes.

salaheldabout 2 years ago

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oh relax! like 90% of the world’s apricots come from malatya province, which

was neither part of the medieval armenian kingdom, nor ever claimed by thedashnaktsutyun

vinhoverdeabout 2 years ago

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Democracy, Atheism and Education. ugh Scandinavia is so nauseatingly perfect, I

want to go to there

Interesting person, kindaabout 2 years ago

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Don’t. Alcohol is very expensive.

Batman1331about 2 years ago

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Killer lakes?! Never moving to Cameroon…

SailaMabout 2 years ago

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So apparently Bolivia leads the world in the exportation of “BRAZIL nuts”

Appropriate, no?

danl48about 2 years ago

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this is so funny, especially europe XD


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Ha! Burma has to be the best…”Speaking Burmese”

Well, I’m glad we got that sorted ;)

beerchenabout 2 years ago

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also- what the HELL are they doing up there in iceland?!

sounds kinda kinky XD


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I’m from Austria and I had to google “Mohnflesserl” o.0

yeah, we do eat tons of those but I’ve never heard that term before…so WTF?!


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why isnt ghana the best at anything

sarahd119about 2 years ago

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Go Scandinavia! Democracy, atheism, and education!

MoodyMudiabout 2 years ago

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Missing several countries

matthh7about 2 years ago

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Yeah Canada! Astoroids and maple syrup booyah.

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Kazakhstan number one exporter potassium…

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this map showing what each country leads the world in is really quite cool

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