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Five Biggest Immigrant Groups by Country #1

Below are 10 countries. Name the country of origin for the five biggest foreign born populations in each of the following.

Whole Series: 1, 2 and 3
Source: UN (2017) and Wikipedia
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Last updated: December 9, 2019
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First submittedAugust 27, 2014
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United States
Mexico
China
India
Philippines
Vietnam
 
France
Algeria
Morocco
Portugal
Tunisia
Italy
China
South Korea
Taiwan
Brazil
Philippines
Indonesia
 
United Kingdom
India
Poland
Pakistan
Ireland
Germany
Australia
United Kingdom
New Zealand
China
India
Vietnam
 
Bahrain
India
Egypt
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Philippines
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Serbia
France
 
Brazil
Portugal
Japan
Paraguay
Bolivia
Italy
Germany
Poland
Turkey
Russia
Kazakhstan
Syria
 
Russia
Ukraine
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
Belarus
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Level 82
Aug 28, 2014
nice quiz. Got most pretty quickly but didn't pick up the last Swiss country until there were only 12 seconds to go.
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Level 66
Aug 28, 2014
I've missed the USA in China...damn!
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Level 66
Sep 28, 2014
Me too. And Philippines & Taiwan, just those.
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Level 75
Sep 7, 2014
Fascinating idea - nice quiz
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Level 51
Sep 25, 2014
Dayum France is being 'Islamified'. Nice quiz though!
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Level 47
Jan 6, 2017
Is that a bad thing?
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Level 66
May 16, 2019
Well, that depends on whether you value French culture, human rights, and secularism. I assume that, as a Marxist, you give lip service to the last one and disdain the rest, so for you, not that bad a thing, no. But then, France's real problem is being taken over not by Muslims but by Marxists.
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Level 22
Jan 23, 2017
There are only 7% of muslims in France,this is not really an "islamisation"
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Level 69
Feb 5, 2017
Compare the birth rates and you'll see in the next twenty-thirty years it will be almost the caliphate of France
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Level 47
Feb 5, 2017
Yes because birth rates have always remained the same throughout time.
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Level ∞
Feb 5, 2017
I think the top answer here is pretty good. By 2050, France could be 25% Islamic, but probably less. But in the year 2100, who knows? It's definitely possible that France could be majority Islamic by then.
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Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
this assumes that every muslim migrant remains a muslim and their children dont secularize like everyone else in the world has been.
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Level 57
Jun 8, 2017
That's pretty alarming
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Level ∞
Mar 11, 2019
Of course, in the far future nearly 100% of people will be descended from religious extremists who do not practice birth control.
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Level 58
May 15, 2019
So what if countries change to become islamic? You think there was nothing in western countries before christianity? In what way does 'islamic' mean bad? And don't just refer to the extremists, there have been plenty of christian extremist terrorists in Northern Ireland, so maybe we should be alarmed that france is 'still' christian? What about the countries in Africa that had christianity rammed down their throats without asking? You think the west is squeaky clean? It wasn't that long ago we were executing people in the west by hanging drawing and quartering, homosexuality was illegal, etc. etc. You are assuming that islam and islamic countries won't become more liberal over the time, the same way almost all countries have. You need to get some historic perspective in your life before lecturing others with your islamaphobic messages (aimed at anyone who has an irrational fear of muslims)
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Level ∞
May 15, 2019
In the long run, we'll all be dead so who cares. But I don't think most people like the idea of their culture becoming extinct and replaced with another one, even if it happens long after they die. It's an understandable concern, even if somewhat irrational.
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Level 43
Jan 10, 2024
Will french culture become "extinct"?

Can we really say that some 4th gen algerian in like 2070 with mixed parentage will be the same as one who walked off the boat right now?

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Level 82
May 15, 2019
though figures for atheism are always suppressed in Muslim countries and underreported in Muslim communities there is some hope that that rate of de-conversion will in the future outpace the rate that the crazies can reproduce. It's a pitched battle between Utopia and Idiocracy; admittedly the latter side seems to be winning lately but I'm still pulling for an upset.

Somewhat ironically and perhaps counter-intuitively Muslim immigrants in secular, enlightened countries often end up becoming *more* committed to their barbarism and backwardness than their counterparts in their home countries. In a place like Saudi Arabia, literally everyone is Muslim and the label is not really meaningful. Take a young Saudi man who doesn't think of himself as religious, put him in a strange place where he is othered and perhaps discriminated against for his beliefs and suddenly his religion becomes an important part of his identity. Doesn't always work that way but it sometimes does.

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Level 34
Jun 26, 2023
Quand on voit la place qu'ils arrivent à prendre dans les faits divers très certainement que oui
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Level 75
May 15, 2019
I'm a bit confused, are you basing that on this quiz?

I don't see anything here which says that Muslims are migrating to France - I only see data for migrants of certain countries of origin, no data on their religious inclinations at all

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Level ∞
May 15, 2019
@roleybob. Over 99% of people in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco are Islamic so it stands to reason that the people who immigrate from those countries to France would be mostly Islamic as well. Also, France is now (updated figures) 8.8% Islamic. This didn't happen by converting the native population.
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Level 75
May 16, 2019
I would be cautious about that data - there are reasons that these countries might be ostensibly 99% Muslim, while in reality there may be a large part of the population who are not practicing / don't believe / etc., and just identify as Muslim for other reasons. But I suppose we can only go by the data we have.

So if we go ahead and assume that most of these migrants are Muslim, maybe what I should have been addressing is the seemingly sinister tone of the post - not that there are Muslims migrating to France but that "France is being 'Islamified'". To me, religion - especially Abrahamic flavoured religion - is abhorrent, but I wouldn't assume that anyone who moved near me had sinister motives simply based on the country they came from.

'Germany, Italy, Portugal, Serbia and France *xenophobic remark about a lot of Christians moving to Switzerland*' doesn't seem so acceptable, I'll bet?

Maybe I'm missing the point or have inferred the tone incorrectly

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Level 60
May 29, 2019
I'm French.

all this talk of birth rates, proportion of Muslims in France, and French culture being threatened etc, is absolutely ridiculous and also kinda sad.

just because there are many Muslims in France doesn't mean that they intend to (or can) change the country's politics or culture towards a more "Islamic" orientation, whatever that means.

a country changes its immigrants just as much as immigrants change a country. cultures change and evolve as they mix with each other, birth rates evolve, religions evolve. people have children with people from different cultural and religious backgrounds and the children then grow up to find their own cultural/religious identities and practices at the crossroads between the different parts of their heritage.

all this fear-mongering talk of France becoming "Islamic" is just racist and ignorant.

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Level 69
Jul 9, 2019
So we’re all a-skeered that Muslims will be growing in population in Western countries, and spreading their terrible, awful, extremist views. It’s a good thing we know for CERTAIN that Islam will be exactly the same as it is today, and, in fact, become more radical. It’s just like how Christianity has also stayed exactly set in stone, like back when Baptists like Jimmy Carter were expressing their pro-choice views, or marching for civil rights with Dr. King. Oh but wait! Let’s also not forget the Crusades, the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition, etc. Seems we haven’t stormed Jerusalem in a few hundred years! Hmm. It’s almost like religious expression changes and evolves over time, and then back again, and then in another direction yet again, due to myriad variables no one can accurately predict or interpret.
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Level 82
Oct 14, 2020
I'm not scared about what Islam will become, but I am troubled by what I know it presently is. I'm not a big fan of Christianity, either. But Islam is undoubtedly significantly worse.
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Level 63
Sep 25, 2014
Cracking quiz. Surprised by the Serbs going to Switzerland - what's that about? Could have been here all week and not guessed Armenia.
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Level 58
Sep 2, 2022
There's a decent sized serbian population there but a lot of those Serbs are actually Kosovo Albanians. Albanians love Switzerland, serbs generally prefer Austria or Germany
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Level 77
Nov 14, 2022
I know a few Serbo-Croats who emigrated out of former Yugoslavia. Many went to Germany and Switzerland for job opportunities and took their families with them over time. Apparently German was one of the languages they could learn in school to be economically competitive, so Germany and Switzerland make sense if that's true.
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Level 48
Sep 25, 2014
From the UK. Married to an Irish woman. Forgot about Ireland.
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Level 36
Sep 25, 2014
I think that you need to add a list of Argentina, because it's one of the countries who cames a lot of inmigrants!
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Level 47
Sep 29, 2014
Thanks! I've just made a sequel (which is a bit harder) here and I've included Argentina.
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Level 83
Sep 25, 2014
Oh, so everyone is just typing the names of every country. I was over-thinking it, I guess.
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Level 82
Sep 25, 2014
I thought my way through every answer until I was down to the last 2 or 3 and started some somewhat random guessing.
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Level 45
Sep 27, 2014
I did the opposite. First did semi-random guessing (mostly of high-population countries), then thought through the remaining gaps.
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Level 82
Jul 15, 2016
but, that wasn't random. You guessed high population countries. Not random.
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Level 82
Sep 26, 2014
Consider all of the below:

1. Proximity. Countries close to each other swap more immigrants.

2. Previous empires, occupations, and spheres of influence. flowing in both directions.

3. Cultural ties. Though this is often the same thing as 1 and/or 2, it can also mean a common religion or common language.

4. Population. Big countries with more people tend to produce more immigrants in other countries. If country A is farther away than country B, but also has 10x more people, the extra distance doesn't matter so much.

5. Economie s. Poor countries with bad job markets usually send workers to more prosperous countries.

6. Ease of immigration. Often affected by 1, 2, and 3. It can also have to do with common economic zones and political relationships.

7. Consider any anecdotal information you have, if you have any anecdotal or personal knowledge of historically large immigrant communities.

Do that and you shouldn't have to guess more than 2 or 3 max..

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Level 69
Jul 10, 2015
Well yeah you did make up the method so you would be able to do it.
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Level 61
Oct 15, 2016
Also include countries that have civil wars or humanitarian crises (such as Syria) because there are often a lot of refugees from those countries immigrating to other countries.
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Level 69
Sep 26, 2014
Great quiz!
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Level 38
Sep 29, 2014
got 20
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Level 62
Feb 8, 2015
Woo, only had one for Russia until the last ten seconds, when I remembered the Central Asian countries.
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Level 32
Mar 14, 2015
easy
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Level 63
May 25, 2016
What's the connection between Brazil in Japan?
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Level 35
Jul 10, 2016
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-migration-between-Japan-and-Brazil
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Level 35
Jul 10, 2016
Taiwan has the greatest number of migrants in China? Do you even know that Chinese people went to colonize Taiwan? I mean, Taiwanese people ARE Chinese people (except the aboriginals, but well I don't think they have great numbers), how can it be that they are migrants in China? I don't think this even makes sense.

Technically, Taiwan is not even a different state. It is controversial, but I wouldn't include it in a quiz like this.

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Level 82
Jul 15, 2016
Technically, it is a different state. Though the People's Republic of China claims Taiwan, and the Republic of China claims China, both governments fail to exert any control over the territory of the other.
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Level 62
Oct 30, 2016
If we take them as different countries, their ethnicity is irrelevant. They're still people moving from one country to another.
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Level 47
Jan 6, 2017
Didnt get many!
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Level 71
Jan 23, 2017
Kazakhstan for Germany? What??
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Level 60
Jan 25, 2017
Germans used to be very widespread, far beyond the borders of the current German-speaking areas, for various historical reasons. Even now there's a meaningful minority of them in Kazakhstan after some Soviet relocations put them there in the 40s.
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Level 66
May 16, 2019
Most of the people leaving Kazakhstan are ethnic Russians, Jews, etc., not Kazakhs. They and their ancestors came there in Soviet times, and are moving to whatever strong economy will give them the best prospects in life. An emigration quiz (where people are going from countries with major out-migration) would be interesting, but would probably show this.
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Level 57
Jun 15, 2019
As a German myself I wondered as well. I've never seen anyone from Kazakhstan where I live (near Stuttgart). I knew one guy in School who came from Kyrgyzstan but no Kazakhs^^Instead there are Italians, Greeks and Croats everywhere so I was really surprised to not see them on this list. So I only got the obvious ones like Turks, Poles and Syrians. Russia surprised me as well not because of Russians living here but rather that there seem to be more Russians than Italians but I guess it makes sense because of things that happened in the past.
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Level 57
Jun 15, 2019
Ok after looking this up a bit more I think the creator of this quiz made some mistakes here. Wikipedia says the five biggest immigration groups in Germany are Turks, Poles, Italians, Romanians and Greeks and I think that sounds more like the Germany I know from living in it. Oh and the source linked by Wikipedia are official statistics by the German Government so yeah Kazakhs are not even in the Top 20 as I suspected and there are no Russians or Syrians in the Top 5 as well. Croats come at 6, Russians at 7 and Syrians are only at 17 despite the refugee crisis.
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Level 59
Nov 10, 2020
I'm really surprised it's still up, the original comment was made in 2017. There is only a small number of Kazakhs in Germany, and even counting Russian Kazakhs or German Kazakhs, it's still a small number. I live in Hamburg (second biggest city) and know many many Russians, Syrians, Turks, Italians, Poles, Iranians, even Armenians and Ghanaians. Not a single Kazakh though haha.
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Level 36
Jan 23, 2017
Last blank, was on the "i" of ukraine, when I ran out of time:/
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Level 67
Jan 23, 2017
A bit ashamed to forget Syria. Mainly because of what's been going on recently.
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Level 25
Jan 23, 2017
OK, that was harder than expected!
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Level 65
Nov 29, 2017
How aren't Nigeria on the list for the UK?
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Level 52
Dec 2, 2020
People aren't going from Nigeria to the UK
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Level 35
Apr 12, 2018
could not get germans for uk gutted
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Level 37
Aug 22, 2018
Why would a Brazilian want to migrate to China? And there are more Germans in South America than you would think (Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia (and possibly Peru).
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Level ∞
Mar 11, 2019
China has very little immigration so small numbers can move the needle a lot. My guess is that this comes from ethnically Chinese people born in Brazil moving to China. China generally does not allow immigration except to ethnically Chinese people.
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Level 87
Feb 5, 2021
For the really good sweet and sour feijoada?
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Level ∞
Mar 11, 2019
p.s. All this data comes from the UN with two exceptions. 1) Taiwanese immigration to China. According to the UN, Taiwan doesn't exist. 2) Syrian immigration to Germany.
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Level 66
May 15, 2019
I feel stupid... I got Azerbaijan but not Russia.
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Level 66
May 15, 2019
Interesting that South Korea is #1 for immigrants to China. South Korea is one of the most developed nations in the world, let alone Asia. I wonder if it's just an overcrowding issue? Why would someone want to move TO a communist country?
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Level 17
May 15, 2019
Forgot Italy... for some reason i only think of Italian immigration in the 20th century... also i wonder if Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras were one country, would they be on the list for USA...
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Level 55
May 15, 2019
Got everything except for one from my own country.
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Level 68
May 16, 2019
Got nearly all except for my own country. I was racking my brains, what other major country would immigrate to Australia?? Oh. New Zealand. My own sister-in-law for example.
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Level 67
May 15, 2019
I feel good for getting Azerbaijan.
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Level 70
Jul 16, 2019
Very good quiz. I got 23/35
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Level 72
Jan 31, 2020
I just made a similar comment to the following in #3 of this quiz series: the reason why there is on these figures apparently a large immigration from Germany to the UK is that in previous decades children of British servicemen and -women happened sometimes to be born in Germany. So when those families have returned to the UK those children are nevertheless counted as having been born in Germany. Which they were.
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Level 26
Feb 10, 2021
yeah pretty sure we got India going to the UK and the USA
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Level 26
Feb 10, 2021
same with Mexico going to the USA
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Level 61
May 11, 2021
Good to know that I'm 1 of the 1.9% of people who got 100%! Purely luck though as I'm a fast typist, really fun quiz!
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Level 68
Jun 15, 2021
Always forget to guess the countries that the quiz is also about
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Level 57
Jul 24, 2022
Anyone else got Switzerland -> Serbia by knowing football players like Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka?
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Level 33
Aug 20, 2022
Didn't consider Taiwan as a separate country entity from China so I missed that one... not sure if it should be considered either but that's a political debate we don't need to get into lol
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Level 36
Dec 16, 2022
I'm just trying to take a fun quiz and I see a bunch of people talking about the great replacement in the comments
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Level 54
Aug 27, 2023
France-born here.

All this ignorant comment section about muslims people is so ridiculously out-of-place.

The France called people from their colonies to re-build the country after WWII and then to work in factories where no one else wanted to. They then choosed to bring their family/have their children there to give them better opportunies. They're just average people who, to be fair, are nothing more than that.

I never thought so many could spread such fake information especially the very one running this *education-oriented* site.

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Level 67
Oct 16, 2023
32/25, missed Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus. Didn't even realize Bahrain was one of the countries until the end, got all of those ones when guessing for others