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Top Crude Oil Producing Countries

We have a list of the top 20 countries in terms of oil production. How many can you name?
For 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration
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Last updated: May 13, 2023
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First submittedMarch 14, 2012
Times taken143,879
Average score80.0%
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Barrels / Day
Country
11.9 mil
United States
10.6 mil
Saudi Arabia
10.3 mil
Russia
4.54 mil
Canada
4.47 mil
Iraq
4.09 mil
China
3.47 mil
United Arab Emirates
Barrels / Day
Country
3.29 mil
Iran
3.02 mil
Brazil
2.83 mil
Kuwait
1.73 mil
Kazakhstan
1.72 mil
Mexico
1.70 mil
Norway
1.32 mil
Nigeria
Barrels / Day
Country
1.32 mil
Qatar
1.21 mil
Algeria
1.17 mil
Angola
1.06 mil
Libya
1.06 mil
Oman
0.752 mil
Colombia
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Level 35
Jul 13, 2013
Great Quiz, The United Kingdom produces far more oil that I would have expected
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Level 26
Jul 24, 2013
All thanks to the North Sea
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Level 30
Dec 10, 2014
Though the North Sea is gradually running out of oil.
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Level 71
Apr 22, 2015
Everywhere is running out of oil
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Level ∞
Sep 23, 2015
The UK is now #23 and off the list.
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Level ∞
Jul 15, 2017
And now back on!
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Level ∞
May 13, 2023
And now off again. This time probably for good.
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Level 56
Jun 6, 2023
womp womp
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Level 77
Sep 16, 2017
Quizmaster, I like your infinite level.
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Level 63
Feb 10, 2018
Brazil is blowing oil, Malbaby
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Level 37
Oct 11, 2016
Excuse me, I don't see the United Kingdom anywhere in this quiz!
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Level 60
May 20, 2017
Maybe if you looked at the dates the comments were made, you'd understand it better.
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Level 56
Jun 6, 2023
You can be polite, y'know.
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Level 63
Oct 22, 2017
foolish mortals who have so much trust in confidence put into the UK
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Level 36
Nov 21, 2022
Wow. I´m here in nearly 2023, nearly 10 years ago you wrote this comment...
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Level 82
Jul 23, 2013
Got everything except forgot Algeria for some reason. Have lived in two of the top 3.
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Level 17
Oct 30, 2014
Which 2?
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Level 30
Dec 10, 2014
The US and Saudi Arabia
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Level 77
Sep 24, 2015
Pretty sad when the original commenter comments the same stuff on so many quizzes, other commenters know what countries that they have lived in.
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Level 68
Sep 24, 2015
It's called marketing. Whether you want to hear it or not, you still know it!
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Level 82
Sep 24, 2015
@buck.. I know you're American. I know which region of which country ander lives in, that OzChris is Australian, and that drunkengandalf lives a block away from Marie Curie's lead-lined casket in Paris. I've got some pretty strong suspicions about QuizMaster's precise location in the USA. Does all this make you sad?
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Level 71
Jun 27, 2016
@kalbahamut: doesn't quiz-master live in Seattle? That's what it says on the about us page.
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Level 84
Jun 28, 2016
Pretty sad when people get butthurt over a little banter on the interwebz.
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Level 31
Jul 7, 2016
Pretty sad that people still use words like "banter" and "interwebz" in 2016
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Level 82
Jul 7, 2016
Banter is not being used anymore?
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Level 69
Aug 26, 2016
Don't listen, banter and interwebz are fine words, and in use.
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Level 59
Jun 25, 2019
Not interwebz. Down with interwebz.
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Level 81
Jun 25, 2019
I like that people still use the terms banter and butthurt.
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Level 82
Jun 25, 2019
I like banter but the other term needs to be retired roughly 20 years ago.
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2020
Lol, drunkengandalf. Would be a nice screenname, but teenage me did not think of it, back in the 90s!
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Level 75
Sep 17, 2021
I always see you as drunkengandalf too lol
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Level 77
Sep 16, 2017
I missed Kazakhstan... got Norway though with 30 seconds left.
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Level 62
Sep 16, 2017
Wait, there's a quiz on kalbahamut's quizzes? This is awesome. What's the name of it??
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Level 82
Jul 8, 2018
I think that cosmokim deleted the quiz that she had made, but if you're that interested in me here's a quiz I made about myself.
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Level 37
Sep 16, 2021
ego
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Level 82
Sep 18, 2021
projection
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Level 27
Jul 23, 2013
Maybe not the root of all evil, but yeah...
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Level 82
Jul 24, 2013
tribalism gets my vote. An argument can be made for greed, but IMO not a very good one. A lack of empathy is another strong contender, but tribalism breeds that more than anything else. Money and oil are much further down the list, I think.
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Level 27
Jul 24, 2013
One of my favourites would be lack of resistance against unconfortable up to evil issues = apathy
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Level 82
Jul 8, 2018
I think that while apathy allows evil to fester, it's not the source cause of it.
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Level 62
Sep 17, 2021
Love of money is actually what the bible says. One of the most misquoted phrases.

Right under that though I would put pride...basically esteeming yourself above others.

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Level 21
Jul 25, 2013
100% great one
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Level 28
Dec 31, 2013
I would have thought that Oman would have had more oil.
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Level 58
Jan 16, 2014
Yeah, none of the ones that are there really surprise me, but I really would have expected Oman to be there. Iran too, although that's probably the sanctions.
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Level 82
Feb 15, 2015
Bahrain was the first Gulf country to develop it's oilfields and they're basically all used up now. That's why they're not here. Oman's oil fields were never as impressive as those of some of their neighbors, and they were developed later than most of their neighbors, but they still produce 900,000 b/d, just behind Azerbaijan. I was most surprised to not see Indonesia on the list, they're even close to Azerbaijan with 982,000 b/d.

P.S. Colombia has recently joined the top 20. Pushing Azerbaijan off.

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Level 31
Jul 7, 2016
I was surprised by Indonesia and Oman
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Level 87
May 21, 2021
Well, even if their oil is mostly gone, we know that Bahrain hasn't gone back to pearl diving... they tore down the pearl monument.
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Level 48
Feb 24, 2014
Is it legal that I didn't get russia, but I yet got azerbaijan?
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Level 37
Apr 5, 2014
I'm afraid not. It is expressly prohibit under US Federal Code 4569.152. Please wait there, and the FBI will be there shortly. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Level 30
Dec 10, 2014
It wouldn't be the FBI, it'd be the FSB
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Level 87
Jul 15, 2017
The FBI/FSB comment seems less funny in the world of 2017...
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Level 82
Feb 15, 2015
There's probably also some toothless UN resolution against it.
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Level 35
Mar 6, 2014
Norway and Angola!
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2014
Looking at the letters on my keyboard trying in vain to get 100%...I obviously skipped "K" because the only two I missed were Kuwait & Kazakhstan.
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Level 37
Apr 5, 2014
I know what you mean. ONE DAY I will take a quiz, with three seconds left, will try "bob," and that will be a correct answer.
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Level 52
Jun 5, 2014
I forgot the US. Go ahead and laugh at me.
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Level 17
Oct 30, 2014
ha
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Level 31
Jul 7, 2016
haha
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Level 60
May 20, 2017
Hahaha
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Level 32
Jun 1, 2017
öhöhöhöhö
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Level 49
Apr 10, 2023
heheheha
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Level 30
Jun 16, 2014
20/20 0.01 left.. that was close xD
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Level 73
May 24, 2018
Wow, that always feels great. I got this one with only 0:09....was going back through the Middle East seeing if I'd missed something since I'd already typed in so many guesses. I hate when I mentally go through a region in my head and forget a country like that.
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Level 46
Jul 21, 2014
I'm that kind of person who gets Angola and Azerbaijan but misses UAE...........
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Level 62
Jan 30, 2015
Damn it, I named all the Central Asian countries except Kazakhstan. Missed Angola, too. Not bad though.
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Level 65
Feb 20, 2015
Azerbaijan, huh? It's amazing that the Baku oil fields still haven't run dry. No wonder Hitler wanted to capture them!
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Level 52
Sep 24, 2015
FYI the correct translation from latin is not money is the root of all evil, but THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
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Level 78
Sep 24, 2015
The Love of Evil is the Root of all Money.
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Level 55
Sep 24, 2015
Love Money is the Evil Root.
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Level 74
Sep 17, 2021
Money is the Love Root of Evil.
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Level 76
Sep 16, 2017
Evil the Root, Money is Love. - Yoda
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Level 70
Sep 24, 2015
Tried two of the Nordic countries, but not the correct one.
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Level 32
Sep 25, 2015
15/20
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Level 65
Sep 25, 2015
missed Angola, Kazakhstan, and Norway
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Level 60
Oct 10, 2016
17/20. kicking myself for not getting qatar...
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Level 68
Jun 9, 2017
Got Angola, missed Brazil
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Level 74
Sep 16, 2017
Didn't enter Qatar b/c I thought I heard they had no oil and lots of natural gas. I guess it's comparatively little oil
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Level 33
Sep 17, 2017
I forgot Norway. :(
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Level 58
Sep 19, 2017
Missed it by a second - was typing in a country as time ran out, and it appears that country was the only one I was still missing (Nigeria)
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Level 70
Jun 25, 2019
Its the love of money
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Level 37
Jun 26, 2019
Very enlightening. Guessed the Persian Gulf countries, as the top producers, followed by Venezuela and Brazil. Would never have guessed the USA as #1. (So, then what was the great gasoline crisis in the '70s/early /80s all about?).
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Level 82
Jun 30, 2019
The USA was the #1 oil producer and oil exporter in the world back in the 1800s when Pennsylvania became the site of the first modern oil well in history. But it wouldn't take long before American oil consumption would eclipse its oil production and it then became a net energy importer. As American energy production was stymied somewhat by environmental regulations which began in the mid 20th century, and by cheaper sources of oil coming from overseas, the country became very dependent on Middle East oil which is why the Saudi oil embargo of '73 and the disruption of oil flow following the '79 Iranian revolution both created an oil shock. Partially in response to this recognition of dependence and vulnerability, and partially due to decades of work by Republicans to dismantle environmental protections in the US and enrich their patrons in the oil industry, oil production in the US has seen a dramatic increase lately. But they still use more than they produce.
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Level 82
Jun 30, 2019
and, given this irresponsibly short-sighted and environmentally-reckless increase in American oil production, and the fact that US oil reserves are considerably smaller than those of Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and many other countries, the end result of this is going to be that the US runs out of oil pretty soon and then they're going to be in an even worse position than they were in in the 70s. All this talk about increasing oil production for the sake of American security is such BS. They are doing the exact opposite, putting the US in a position where it is going to be entirely dependent on others, all to line the pockets of the Koch brothers and the Cheneys. To say nothing of the environmental catastrophe that putting that much carbon into the atmosphere will lead to.
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Level 54
Feb 14, 2020
I got Angola but MISSED CANADA wow
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Level 33
Jan 15, 2021
Very surprised to see Norway there I thought if you owned a petrol car there they would behead you with broccoli
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Level ∞
May 21, 2021
I guess they are not opposed to getting rich selling the substance to foreigners. Today, Norway's sovereign wealth fund has over $1 trillion and owns 1.4% of the global stock market.
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Level 87
May 21, 2021
So how does the Sultan of Brunei stay in the pink, if he's not on the list? His fellow sultan in Oman is on it now.
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Level 60
May 22, 2021
So the only large country not in this list is the Land of the Holy Cows
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Level 82
May 22, 2021
Well Australia's missing, and it's larger than India. Also Argentina's missing and it's almost as big as India. Other than that all of the world's ten largest countries are represented. I guess if you have an area that big, chances are you'll have some decent oil reserves somewhere in all that territory.
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Level 82
May 22, 2021
Amazing that Venezuela, with the world's largest proven reserves, fails to make this list. It's staggering that such a country could be mired in poverty, chaos and corruption, despite such a titanic natural endowment of resources. It really takes a talent for mismanagement to get things that wrong. Chavez and Maduro are real Hall of Famers for sheer incompetence.
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Level 70
May 23, 2021
What about UAE and Venezuela?
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Level 37
Sep 16, 2021
Venezuela??
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Level 67
Sep 16, 2021
I also expected it to be here.
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Level 32
Sep 16, 2021
Actually, it's the LOVE of money that is the "root of all evil".

Not sure why that vital emphasis often gets left out.

1 Timothy 6:10

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Level 59
Sep 20, 2021
whos timothy
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Level 43
Sep 22, 2021
Missed Mexico lol
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Level 49
Jul 4, 2022
Where is Venezuela? Is it not the largest oil producing country in the world? I thought it should be on list.
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Level 82
Aug 14, 2022
They have the largest proven oil reserves, but catastrophic mismanagement of the country since the rise of Chavez and Maduro has led to them no longer being among the top producers. They also went from being the richest country in South America to the poorest. Many people would blame socialism for this, but it's really more the result of corruption, incompetence, stupidity, greed, a lack of economic foresight, and a deliberately belligerent and anti-American foreign policy. Blaming it all on "socialism" is pretty dumb. Blaming it all on the American sanctions is even more dumb. But anyway the end result is that the Venezuelan economy is in absolute shambles and its enormous natural resources are not being fully exploited presently while workers flee in record numbers.
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Level 64
Jan 18, 2023
I don't think being 'anti-American' has much to do with it, even if you meant what I think you did, which is that they don't follow the principles of the Washington Consensus. Many countries refute that, including ones in Europe, and they've done just fine. Venezuela's problems are more to do with many of their policies being what I will generously describe as 'anti-logic'.
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Level 48
May 28, 2023
Lol, it is mind-blowing, they are really off top 20 like that. But completely understandable.
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Level 82
Aug 14, 2022
All that being said, they're currently #25 according to Wikipedia.
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Level 27
Nov 25, 2022
did someone say oli??!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Level 67
May 13, 2023
Just missed Angola
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Level 65
Jun 6, 2023
And yet the country with the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela, doesn't even make the list of 20. This just shows again the influence of politics in our lives.
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Level 74
Jun 25, 2023
Not sure exactly what your angle is, but however messy politics can be, and as toxic as American politics in particular have been lately, it's worth bearing in mind that the alternative to politics is dictatorship. Either we get to have say in how things are done (politics), or we don't (dictatorship).

Try to give power to people who can conduct themselves thoughtfully and with consideration for others. Then worry about their policy preferences.

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Level 57
Jun 7, 2023
19/20 Feel like an idiot for missing the UAE.
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Level 29
Aug 11, 2023
Columbia is spelt wrong
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Level 74
Dec 1, 2023
LOL