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Poetry World Map

The world map (and table) here shows the distribution of poetry on this site. I will try to keep it more or less up to date. Those marked with * aren't independent countries but are ones that I personally feel are worthy of separation.

The current map is dated 18 March 2024 - click for a larger version.

World map showing number of poems by country

I have tried to include poetry from all around the world on this site, and have at least one poem from every country (I think), except Vatican City as no one is allowed to actually be born there. Note that where a poet is from a former time, I have put their country of origin in modern terms, even though the country may not have been named the same in their time. In some cases it isn't possible to pin them down, in which case I have used a more generic country name (e.g. Korea). Finally, some poets were born in one country and lived most of their lives in another - in such cases both countries are "credited" unless they left their birthplace in childhood/infancy.

Table of countries:

Country No. poems       Country No. poems
Afghanistan  8 Luxembourg 5
Albania  14 Macedonia 7
Algeria  8 Madagascar 7
Andorra 4 Malawi  17
Angola  5 Malaysia  16
Antigua and Barbuda 5 Maldives 5
Argentina  35 Mali  6
Armenia 16 Malta 8
Australia  92 Marshall Islands 4
Austria  30 Martinique* 5
Azerbaijan  11 Mauritania 7
Bahamas 4 Mauritius 4
Bahrain  7 Mexico  39
Bangladesh 5 Federated States of Micronesia 5
Barbados  5 Moldova 4
Belarus 8 Monaco 3
Belgium  26 Mongolia  10
Belize 9 Montenegro 5
Benin 4 Morocco  14
Bhutan 5 Mozambique  10
Bolivia 9 Myanmar  5
Bonaire* 1 Namibia  6
Bosnia Herzegovina 7 Nauru 4
Botswana  9 Nepal 15
Brazil  14 Netherlands  58
Brunei 3 New Zealand  35
Bulgaria  23 Nicaragua  12
Burkina Faso 4 Niger 5
Burundi 5 Nigeria  46
Cambodia 5 North Korea  4
Cameroon  10 Northern Ireland* 7
Canada  97 Norway  25
Cape Verde  6 Oman 4
Central African Republic 4 Pakistan  21
Chad 4 Palau 4
Chile  19 Palestine  17
China  89 Panama  6
Colombia  7 Papua New Guinea 8
Comoros 3 Paraguay  8
Costa Rica 5 Persia* 22
Cote d'Ivoire 4 Peru  14
Croatia 8 Philippines 13
Cuba  16 Poland  71
Curaçao* 4 Portugal  30
Czech Republic 19 Puerto Rico* 1
Democratic Rep of Congo  6 Qatar 4
Denmark  62 Republic of Congo 4
Djibouti  5 Romania  35
Dominica 4 Russia  109
Dominican Republic 7 Rwanda 6
Ecuador  9 Saint Kitts and Nevis 5
Egypt  28 Saint Lucia  5
El Salvador  14 Saint Vincent & the Grenadines 3
England * 297 Samoa 5
Equatorial Guinea  4 San Marino 3
Eritrea  8 São Tomé and Príncipe 3
Estonia  16 Saudi Arabia  17
Eswatini 5 Scotland* 80
Ethiopia  11 Senegal  10
Fiji 6 Serbia  16
Finland  40 Seychelles 4
France  169 Sierra Leone 10
French Guiana* 5 Singapore  6
Gabon 5 Slovakia 6
Gambia  6 Slovenia  8
Georgia  15 Solomon Islands 3
Germany  154 Somalia  11
Ghana  16 South Africa  37
Greece  61 South Korea  22
Greenland* 5 South Sudan 11
Guadeloupe*  4 Spain  111
Guam* 2 Sri Lanka 9
Guatemala  7 Sudan 8
Guinea 3 Suriname 7
Guinea-Bissau 3 Sweden  35
Guyana  8 Switzerland  29
Haiti  8 Syria  17
Honduras  5 Taiwan 7
Hungary  27 Tajikistan 4
Iceland  20 Tanzania 11
India  141 Thailand 5
Indonesia 9 Tibet* 11
Iran  51 Timor-Leste 3
Iraq  36 Togo 5
Ireland  115 Tonga 4
Israel 27 Trinidad and Tobago 9
Italy  148 Tunisia 7
Jamaica  12 Turkey  49
Japan  62 Turkmenistan 5
Jordan 4 Tuvalu 3
Kazakhstan 14
Uganda  28
Kenya  50 Ukraine   22
Kiribati 4 United Arab Emirates 4
Korea * 7 Uruguay   17
Kosovo  5 USA  193
Kuwait 4 Uzbekistan 6
Kyrgyzstan 5 Vanuatu 4
Laos 5 Vatican City (Holy See) 0
Latvia  11 Venezuela 13
Lebanon  19 Vietnam  16
Lesotho  9 Wales* 24
Liberia 7 Western Sahara 7
Libya 7 Yemen  5
Liechtenstein 4 Zambia  10
Lithuania   21 Zimbabwe  23

2 comments:

  1. Now if the posts were tagged and the countries above linked to that tag search... :)

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  2. Hi, All the poems are tagged with country, date and author. If you want to see poems from a particular country use the tag cloud below. To pick out a country just use the browser's search function (Ctrl+F). Hope that helps :)

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