Five Most Murderous Countries by Continent

For each continent, can you name the countries with the most intentional homicides in 2012?
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Africa
33,817
Nigeria
18,586
DR Congo
16,259
South Africa
11,048
Ethiopia
6,071
Tanzania
 
 
Asia
43,355
India
13,846
Pakistan
13,410
China
8,484
Philippines
8,044
Myanmar
Europe
13,120
Russia
1,988
Ukraine
665
France
662
Germany
653
United Kingdom
 
 
North America
26,037
Mexico
14,827
United States
7,172
Honduras
6,025
Guatemala
2,594
El Salvador
Oceania
713
Papua New Guinea
254
Australia
41
New Zealand
35
Fiji
24
Solomon Islands
 
 
South America
50,108
Brazil
16,072
Venezuela
14,670
Colombia
2,865
Peru
2,237
Argentina
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Level 63
Oct 11, 2019
Interesting yet sad quiz.
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2020
Wow - interesting and in some places baffling. Why would India's murder rate be so much higher than anyone else's in the whole continent, including famously violent Pakistan? And how did Brazil get to be so many times more dangerous than Colombia?
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Level 50
Sep 2, 2020
I guess it is because this is not a murder rate, but like absolute number of murders in a country
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Level 46
Jan 23, 2021
It's in absolute numbers, not per capita.
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Level 37
Mar 26, 2021
Am I dumb or is Russia in Asia, not Europe?
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Level 49
Nov 1, 2021
Half of Russia is in Europe and most of the population lives in the European side of Russia
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Level 28
Dec 2, 2022
It's more like one fourth
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Level 28
Dec 2, 2022
What are they doing in Papua New Guinea?!?!