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Countries Most Mentioned in New York Times Headlines

The world seen through the eyes of the US: Guess the countries which secured the most monthly top mentions in the New York Times headlines between 1900 and 2018.
Data from the NYT API, based on the work of Russell Samora.
Country list according to the NYT's own, it may differ from JetPunk's...
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Number of top months
Country
Year(s) when most mentioned
304
United Kingdom
1902, 1930
294
USSR
1946
125
Germany
1915-1918
112
China
2018
81
France
1926
77
Iraq
2004-2007
73
Russia
1904
68
Vietnam
1966
62
Japan
1942, 1995
54
Israel
1970, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1982
25
Iran
1980
19
Mexico
1913-1914
15
Italy
1935, 1943
14
Lebanon
1976
13
Cuba
1933
13
Spain
1936
11
Syria
2013
10
Poland
1981
8
Egypt
1958, 1959, 2011
7
Cambodia
1970
6
Afghanistan
2009
6
Brazil
1982, 1984
6
Greece
2011, 2015
6
Kosovo
1999
6
South Africa
1985-1986
5
Libya
1986, 2011
4
Haiti
1994, 2010
4
India
2008
3
DR Congo
1960, 1961, 1997
3
Nicaragua
1928, 1979, 1984
Number of top months
Country
Year(s) when most mentioned
3
Ottoman Empire
1912
3
Pakistan
1971
3
Palestine
1994, 2009, 2012
3
South Korea
1955, 1979, 1987
2
Algeria
1963
2
Cyprus
1974
2
Indonesia
1998
2
Laos
1961, 1971
2
Peru
1996-1997
2
Serbia
1993, 1996
2
Somalia
1992-1993
2
Ukraine
2014
1
Angola
1976
1
Canada
1910
1
Colombia
1903
1
Czechoslovakia
1938
1
Denmark
1909
1
Dominican Republic
1965
1
Guatemala
1956
1
Hungary
1956
1
Ireland
1920
1
Jordan
1970
1
Liberia
2014
1
North Korea
2017
1
Panama
1903
1
Portugal
1975
1
Rwanda
1994
1
Taiwan
1958
1
Uganda
1976
1
Zimbabwe
1976
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