What's YOUR country famous for?

[Maestro]

What's YOUR country famous for? Map reveals that UK leads the world in fascist movements while U.S. has most Nobel laureates and lawnmower deaths

By SARAH GRIFFITHS

PUBLISHED: 11:50 GMT, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 12:45 GMT, 22 October 2013

From making babies to being struck by lightning, a new map has revealed the surprising things that countries are best at.

The map is based on statistics gathered from across the internet - ranging from sources as diverse as the World Bank to the Guinness World Records.

Created by online comic and website DogHouse Diaries, the map shows what each country leads the rest of the world in and the words picked - which are written across the country's geographical territory - are in many cases surprising.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2471475/Whats-YOUR-country-famous-Map-reveals-UK-leads-world-fascist-movements-U-S-Nobel-laureates-lawnmower-deaths.html#ixzz2iSrWsE6R

-- Daily Mail 2013-10-22

[HeavyDrinker]

Birthplace of cricket....

[Maestro]

Thailand: Rice exports

Quality of life: Republic of Ireland

[Publicus]

Lemme tell you, breaking in some of those lawnmowers is worse than riding a bull in a rodeo.

If you only knew!

The good news is I've been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics for figuring a way to safely break in a lawnmower.

Edited October 22, 2013 by Publicus

[Puschl]

Best at and famous for are two pairs of shoes. I'm Austrian, but I've never heard of Mohnflesser before.

[Mosha]

Thailand: Rice exports

Quality of life: Republic of Ireland

Must be old data,

[Scott]

Troll post removed.

[ChrisB87]

Whisky, Haggis, ugly girls, kilts, and awful lager.

Oh, and apparently defeating the English, but still remaining in a strange unexplained captivity.

[hanno]

Cambodia (I consider my country wherever it is I hang my hat): long alphabets. No kidding!

[adweb00]

Aus: Mrs Ronald McDonald as the first female P.M! And she stole jackos nose as well! Thank goodness the idiot is gone

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[PeterSmiles]

Thailand: Rice exports

Let me correct that for you

Thailand : Rice hoarding.

[boomerangutang]

If California was a country, it would be one of the top 5 biggest economies.

In Santa Cruz, CA there's a life-sized bronze statue of a surfer with his board. California had a governor who had difficulty pronouncing California. They've got a bunch of rich people in the movie-making biz, who hold annual ceremonies where they do nothing all night but praise and award fake gold statues to each other.

[Mosha]

Have to say that when I think of the USA, death by lawn mower never comes into it.

[boomerangutang]

California also has Silicon Valley, with ten thousand millionaires who produce no tangible products. It's akin to NY, which has Wall Street, which also has thousands of millionaires who do nothing but push virtual paper around. In essence, the US is producing less and less tangible products, but still finds ways to support its lavish lifestyle with money coming in from China and Japan (#2 buyers of US debt) and other numbnuts who keep shoveling money in their laps. What the heck, let's all get fat, keep the bubbly poured, and party until the credit cards are maxed out. Who's going to arrest us, the FBI? The CIA?

[lazygourmet]

Belgium: Relaxing Generosity

Just wondering for who ?!?

[RubbaJohnny]

What a pleasure to retire to Hubland the best of all possible places especially if you were formerly from

Londonistan in Obesia

[ThomasBrian]

All Tomorrows Parties - End Of An Era Weekend 1 curated by ATP and Primavera Sound will be held from Friday 22nd until Sunday 24th November 2013 at Camber Sands Holiday Centre, East Sussex.

[FiftyTwo]

Thailand: Rice exports

Let me correct that for you

Thailand : Rice hoarding.

There is only one thing the real world associates Thailand with, and it isn't rice.

Anyway, my lot

Britain is clearly football hooligans.

NZ sheep, even thought they don't have any.

California, nuts.

@LG

Belgium is Hercule Poirot

Edited October 23, 2013 by FiftyTwo

[Fookhaht]

USA: Before I saw the map, I was guessing "drones."

BURMA: Speaking Burmese?

[FiftyTwo]

USA: Before I saw the map, I was guessing "drones."

BURMA: Speaking Burmese?

This was an American, when they asked him what he associated with Latin America, he said 'speaking Latin'.

[nottocus]

rugby

[somtampet]

Football hooligans

[Nowhereman60]

Wanting to report and pay tas on the little bit of interest I earn from my Thai bank, that was already tax when I earn it as my retirement pension.

[RubbaJohnny]

Rubba band usage , I also foresee a major hub for research into Hydroblloxry for the non technical is failure to explain to water how do as it is told.

There's a lady who knows when the sluices are no goes

Archimedes screw is what she came for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnFhf3BisUA

[Songhua]

Japan - The Slurp Stopper

[EOB1948]

The Yankee work ethic. Notice other nationalities can't even come close.

[Scott]

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[Berkshire]

Interesting map. I would have thought the US would be more known for Hollywood movies...and gun murders. Funny that for Burma it's "Speaking Burmese." I would expect Myanmar to be dominant in that capacity for many years to come.

[ThomasBrian]

From London Eye, the National Gallery and Tower of London, below are London's most visited tourist attractions. Many of the attractions in the top 10 are free: there's no better place to soak up some culture.

[wolf5370]

Total crap though isn't it. "Famous for" - a few are spot on, but most are not. UK famous for Facists? erm I think Germany must hold that one. How about "sun never sets" (empire) or "most inventions" (thanks to Scotland), "bad teeth", "Stiff upper lip", "decent beer".

I know diddly about the site, but it is obvious where the allegiance lies! USA famous for lawnmower deaths and Nobel laureates? give me a break! How about "gun crime", or "Hollywood Movies" or "Losing wars against third-world countries" or "starting wars over oil".

Canada, "maple Syrup" yep, but what about ":Mounties"? Belgium, "Chocolate", "EU Bureaucracy" and "Boredom". Holland "Clogs", "Windmills", "Tulips", "Van Gough", "Boys plugging dykes with their thumbs". Germany: "Bratwurst", "Berlin Wall", "Hitler", "Best engineering", "No sense of humour". Spain: "Bulls", "fat sweaty men with black moustaches", "cheap holidays". Italy: "fast cars", "food that was invented in other countries - pizzas/spagbog/etc", "Mussolini", "Mafia", "terrible drivers" . France: "frog legs", "snails", "miserable and unfriendly", "perfume, wine and tiny plates of food" and on and on and on - I reckon we could make a more recognisable map in less than an hour!