Alphabet Game: Countries Edition

[QuietSeductress]

Okay, this is a favorite in the forums.

Posters will list, in alphabetical order, a country. (Not a city or state)

One letter per post, when it get's to Z, it starts all over again. To make it a little more than just listing countries, try to give a fun fact or a pic!

I will obviously go first!

A: Azerbaijan

Fun fact: They have spas were people can bathe in crude oil because it is plentiful there.

 

[Solidsnake61988]

Brazil

 

[XXtraPrince]

Canada

 

[QuietSeductress]

Brazil

Where's the pic or fun fact?

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Canada

Same with you Prince! Pic or fun fact?

 

[QuietSeductress]

Denmark (Picture in the link)

http://toptravellists.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Copenhagen-City-Landscape-Denmark.jpg

 

[darkangel76]

Ecuador

Fun Fact: The Galapagos Islands are part of Ecuador and make up its first National Park.

 

[XXtraPrince]

France - the origin point of French Fries, French postcards and, ooh la-la, the celebrated French Kiss!

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Germany

Fun fact: Gummy bears were invented by a German

 

[XXtraPrince]

Hungary - Hungarian Goulash comes from here.

 

[QuietSeductress]

Iceland

fun fact: The last name of Icelanders is derived from their father's first name.

 

[XXtraPrince]

Jordan - home of the famous Petra ruins, an ancient temple complex not "built" but carved out of solid rock.

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Kenya

Fun fact: Kenya is roughly the same size of Texas at 362,040 square miles.

 

[XXtraPrince]

^ The barbecue is better in Texas and lions don't fight you for it. ^

Luxermbourg - their national language, Luxembourguish is spoken nowhere else on Earth.

 

[QuietSeductress]

Maldives

Picture: http://d1vmp8zzttzftq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/coral-reef-atolls-in-maldives-1600x1066.jpg

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Nigeria

Fun Fact: Football is Nigeria’s national sport

 

[XXtraPrince]

Oman - the Omanis have been doing a national tightrope act because Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two of three neighboring nations, have very poor relations vis-a-vis each other.

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Pakistan

Fun Fact: Pakistan is the largest producer of salt in the world.
Fun Fact: Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear country in world.

Sorry if that seems like cheating but I found those both amusing. Then again, I get easily intrigued so ... yeah ... ^^;;

 

[XXtraPrince]

Qatar - NATO troops assigned to their regional headquarters in Doha consider it a great liberty port.

 

[QuietSeductress]

Romania

Fun fact: Romanian streets are known for being home to thousands of stray dogs. Annually, there is an estimated number of 9,000 people being bitten by these abandoned dogs.

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Somalia

Fun Fact: Somalia is the only country in the world that does not possess a central form of government.

 

[XXtraPrince]

Thailand - Chang and Eng Bunker, the first medically-documented pair of conjoined twins, introduced a new term to the American idiom: Siamese Twins.

 

[Solidsnake61988]

Somalia

Fun Fact: Somalia is the only country in the world that does not possess a central form of government.

Pssh fun fact? Don't insult the place mate!
A fun fact would be that those people love tiles, or that their language consists of Italian words.

Uzbekistan.
Uzbeks, third largest ethnic group of the former Soviet Union (after Russians and Ukrainians).

 

[QuietSeductress]

Vietnam

Fun fact: Although Vietnam is a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94%

Yay for reading!

 

[Solidsnake61988]

Wales.
Mount Everest was named after Welshman Sir George Everest.

 

[LadyYunaFFX2]

Somalia

Fun Fact: Somalia is the only country in the world that does not possess a central form of government.

Pssh fun fact? Don't insult the place mate!
A fun fact would be that those people love tiles, or that their language consists of Italian words.

Uzbekistan.
Uzbeks, third largest ethnic group of the former Soviet Union (after Russians and Ukrainians).

It's not an insult. I'm not saying anything bad of the place. It's intriguing to me ... mainly because I did think most places had that. So it was something even I didn't know. Don't assume I'm doing such a thing, christ. I don't sink to those levels.

Anyways ....

Yemen
Fun fact: Yemenis take much pride in their wedding traditions. An average wedding feast lasts 21 days.

EDIT: Checked, there is none with an X. So yes, Y next.