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Countries with the Highest Percentage of Cultivated Land

Which countries of the world have the largest percent of their land area used to grow crops?
Includes annual crops as well as orchards, but not timberland
Countries with a population less than 1 million in gold
Not including large frigid overseas territories
Quiz by cuotak
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Last updated: June 10, 2023
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First submittedJune 20, 2015
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Continent
Country
76.3
Africa
Comoros
66.7
Oceania
Tuvalu
65.5
Asia
Bangladesh
64.2
Europe
Moldova
59.0
Europe
Denmark
57.6
Europe
Ukraine
57.1
Africa
Rwanda
55.6
Oceania
Marshall Islands
54.4
Africa
Burundi
53.7
Asia
India
%
Continent
Country
51.4
Oceania
F. S. Micronesia
50.7
Oceania
Kiribati
50.5
Europe
Hungary
49.7
Africa
São Tomé and Príncipe
49.0
Africa
Togo
48.7
North America
Haiti
45.6
Africa
Uganda
44.7
Africa
Nigeria
44.0
North America
El Salvador
43.3
Asia
Maldives
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Level 48
Oct 7, 2018
Haiti? Can it be...?
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Level 56
Jun 15, 2023
Yep, however I think the famines are because they have chopped down so much rainforest that the cultivated land is eroded away
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Level 63
Oct 7, 2019
This is a very, very hard quiz. Interesting, though!
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Level 88
Jun 11, 2023
Yeah, usually I can root out some patterns, but this way way harder.
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Level 77
Dec 4, 2019
Missed only two.
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Level 59
Jun 10, 2023
May I make a Spanish version?
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Level 54
Jun 10, 2023
I would suggest to let this task to a fluent Spanish speaker.
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Level 59
Jun 10, 2023
I know Spanish well enough for this and half the translation would be automatically done by JetPunk....
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Level 77
Jun 12, 2023
I don't understand Haiti and Bangladesh. Both are small but highly populated. I'm shocked that they are on this list.
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Level 71
Jun 12, 2023
@buck, I think that's the point. When you have a large population on a small amount of land, you need a higher % of cultivated land to support/feed the population. The countries on here don't have a lot in common, but the one thing that's true of all of them is that they have high population densities.

Haiti's a perfect example--if you look at the source page, it has about the same total amount of cultivated land as its neighbor, the Dominican Republic, but since it has less land, it registers as a higher %.

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Level 65
Feb 5, 2024
Bangladesh is literally a giant river delta, I expected it the most
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Level 67
Jun 15, 2023
Honestly was randomly typing.
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Level 75
Jun 15, 2023
Some of the microstates raised some questions for me. I've been to Comoros, not that long ago, and am no expert, but the number was hard for me to understand. On the source, it says that "cultivated land" is "the sum of the total arable land area and total area of permanent crops." "Arable land" is then defined as "any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops." In other words, that (far larger, in almost all cases) part of the definition is about (annual crop) potential, while "permanent crops" is defined as crops produced from "plants which last for many seasons, rather than being replanted after each harvest." So, fruit trees, olives, coffee, rubber, etc. that actually cover ground.

Long story short, I'm not sure how all of this represents actual percentages of really-cultivated land.

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Level 79
Jun 15, 2023
"Not including large frigid overseas territories"

Someone should create a quiz to list all the quiz names that have a caveat about Greenland.

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Level 16
Jun 15, 2023
woah. Didn't expect some of these at all
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Level 66
Jun 18, 2023
What a diverse group of countries
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Level 76
Jun 22, 2023
:(