Most Populous Countries with Exceptions

Most of the world's most populous countries are in Asia. Name the countries with the highest population that aren't.

For countries that are partly in Asia, we will count only their non-Asian population

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Population	Country
343 m	United States
221 m	Nigeria
216 m	Brazil
128 m	Mexico
125 m	Ethiopia
112 m	Egypt
111 m	Russia

Population	Country
101 m	D. R. Congo
83.3 m	Germany
68.2 m	United Kingdom
67.4 m	France
66.5 m	Tanzania
60.2 m	South Africa
60.0 m	Italy

Population	Country
54.6 m	Kenya
52.0 m	Colombia
48.0 m	Uganda
47.5 m	Sudan
47.5 m	Spain
45.6 m	Argentina

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Level 64

Mar 1, 2017

Bit harder than I thought it would be, the ones lower down from Africa I've never considered before for population quizzes.

Level 72

Mar 6, 2017

America first?

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Level 68

Mar 6, 2017

Well, its third in population in the world and the first two are in Asia...

Level 66

Oct 13, 2019

It is rather big, like brazil

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Level 57

Jul 17, 2020

America is a continent, not a country.

Level 77

May 16, 2021

I consider it to be both!

Level 70

Mar 12, 2022

that is north america you are thinking of

Level 34

Apr 3, 2022

america is north america and south america aka the americas

Level 53

Feb 22, 2023

ok but nobody calls the americas "america"

Level 51

Feb 23, 2023

Many people call the Americas "America".

Level 74

Mar 10, 2023

We all know it is far more commonly used to refer to the US. Those protestors who shout "Death to America" are not talking about the Americas.

Level 77

May 16, 2021

America first (with exceptions)!

Level 47

May 18, 2021

I can see all the angry South Americans who just want to reply with "AMERICA IS A CONTINENT REEEEE" lol

Level 57

Sep 27, 2021

Two continents.

Level 76

Sep 30, 2021

I'm surprised no-one's jumped all over this.

As a demonym, the term 'American' refers to the USA, and also to the continent as a whole. 'America' is synonymous with the USA and also with the continent as a whole, or even the two continents if you prefer.

It isn't a divisive issue, or at least it shouldn't be. It simply is.

If you can't grasp this simple concept, then you need to try a little bit harder.

Level 54

Jan 23, 2022

That meaning is not true for all languages. In Spanish for example American refers to the continent, not the USA, that's why spanish speakers don't like this very much.

Level 50

Feb 22, 2023

Level 43

Feb 22, 2023

Huh nobody even said the phrases "USA", "U.S.A.", "US", "U.S.", "United States" or "United States of America" in this comment or its subsequent replies except for 2.

Level 35

Mar 6, 2017

Knarf is right. The majority of people live in European Russia, west of the Ural Mountains. Past that is small villages and frozen tundra.

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Level 46

Mar 6, 2017

Well, first part is true. But I wouldn't count Novosibirsk (third largest City in Russia), Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok... as "small villages".

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Level 57

Mar 7, 2017

Of course not! They're frozen tundra.

Level 55

Feb 22, 2023

I think I just found the best comment on this site, and it is almost six years old. I peed myself while laughing.

Level 75

Feb 6, 2021

Bless you

Level 65

Mar 6, 2017

Honorable mentions: Algeria, Uganda, and Poland.

Level 66

Oct 13, 2019

Uganda is on the list, and not even last

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Level 77

Oct 13, 2019

Uganda might not have been on the list at the time of that comment.

Level 69

May 16, 2020

Maybe Elan wanted to say they were some close calls.

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Level 60

Mar 6, 2017

Canada, the 2nd biggest country in the world by land area, still cannot make this list.

Level 74

Oct 13, 2019

What's your point? It shouldn't be a mystery that Canada is not on this list if you understand Canadian geography. Over 80% of the land is uninhabitable because of permafrost. Before you throw in Russia as a retort, be aware that it has less land above the arctic circle than Canada, and although about 77% of its landmass is in Asia, the majority of its massive population (about 110M) live on the European side and that's how it makes this list. Canada has a population of close to 37M...which is how it doesn't make this list.

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Level 63

Oct 14, 2019

Is there a reason you seem to be actually offended by geography's comment?

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Level 58

Oct 16, 2019

^^^TheQuizzler - hahahaha, right? Dude bleeds maple syrup.

Level 49

May 15, 2021

Uganda has more people than Canada. It's kinda disturbing. Africans really need to start doing family planning.

Level 70

Mar 12, 2022

a bit hard when you have a gdp of $817 per capita and one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world - the reason poor countries have so many people is because if one of them dies then they are replaceable.

Level 74

Mar 10, 2023

No, and that's an absurd suggestion.

Level 29

Jul 2, 2021

Canada is 4th in land area and 2nd in total area

Level 65

Mar 6, 2017

100%

Drop that hundo!!!

Level 26

Mar 7, 2017

Wow got the last one a millisecond before time ran out.

Level 61

Mar 7, 2017

I started to name cities

I was so confused at first

Level 28

Mar 8, 2017

Ill help u out. You have the answers from wikipedia so ill help u out by giving u actual, real websites that have the precise number of country's populations. here is the link. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

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Level 70

Oct 14, 2019

Did they count them all themselves?

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Level 63

May 2, 2021

Ah yes, my favorite fake, fictional website, Wikipedia.

Level 28

Mar 8, 2017

Then go to this link for real, live stats of top twenty.

http:/ www.worldometers.info/world-population/

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Level 67

Oct 14, 2019

Lol, live stats. Like the website's got a battalion out there, monitoring births.

Level 64

May 14, 2021

You didn't have an agent from Worldometers present at your birth?

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Level 51

May 12, 2017

dunno why i typed in tonga lol

Level 58

Nov 4, 2017

Missed Sudan... darn it.

Level 45

Jan 4, 2018

Missed Ukraine and Kenya......

Level 70

Jan 7, 2018

Peru?

Level 85

Jul 24, 2018

Roughly 10 million short of making this list.

Level 50

Dec 5, 2018

Great quiz but since when is Sudan more populous than Algeria?

Level 83

Jul 24, 2019

They both have slightly under 42 million people. According to worldometers.info Algeria is currently slightly ahead but Sudan was in the lead last year. Neither appear on the quiz, now, though.

Level 45

Aug 3, 2019

And I completely forgot Germany for the last 2 minutes although I got Ukraine and Uganda early...

Level 66

Oct 13, 2019

Hm this is the first time scoring the average (18) gives me 4 points usually scoring the average gives me a maxmum of 2. I missed spain and uganda.

Level 55

Oct 13, 2019

Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't Russia part of Asia as well as Europe?

Level 86

Oct 13, 2019

The first caveat states: "For countries that are partly in Asia, we will count their non-Asian population"

Level 78

Jan 28, 2021

So in the Jan 2021 revision of this quiz, these 20 countries represent ~2 billion people or about 1/4 of the world's population. Add in China and India with collectively ~2.5 billion, and over half the people in the world are in these 22 countries.

That leaves 174 countries on the JetPunk list to make up the other half of the world. (I don't really have a point, I am just in awe of how population gets concentrated.)

Level 83

Jan 28, 2021

This comment reminded me of the "Valeriepieris Circle" meme that was popular a few years ago. It shows a circle covering the most densely populated part of Asia, with the observation that more people live inside the circle than outside it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle

Level 85

Jan 28, 2021

Who needs 22 countries? You can get to half the world's population with just 7: China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, and Nigeria.

Level 57

Sep 27, 2021

Yeah! Barely need Nigeria.

Level 64

Mar 28, 2021

Bruh everytime I forget uganda.....

Level 33

May 15, 2021

I got almost everyone in the first 90 secs than took 2 mins to figure out Uganda lol

Level 64

Apr 27, 2021

I think Russia is includes in Asia too.

Level 43

May 14, 2021

I totally forgot about Russia since part of it is in Asia but Moscow and some other major citys are in Russia's Europe.

Level 65

May 14, 2021

This quiz got me to level 55. Thank you.

Level 65

Aug 17, 2021

And I'm still at 55. I haven't been doing much, have I?

Level 45

May 23, 2021

Reading the answer qualifications it says countries that are not in Asia. Hello. Russia is in Asia.

Level 44

Jun 10, 2021

It's partly in Europe and partly in Asia

Level 34

Apr 3, 2022

yes but it is mostly in asia. but russias european side is more populous.

Level 56

Sep 23, 2021

Read the first caveat

Level 23

Feb 18, 2022

almost forgot uk but got it when i guessed ukraine only missed uganda

Level 41

Feb 22, 2023

If Russia is included then so should Turkey be.

Level 63

Feb 22, 2023

Only the european part is counted, so for Russia it's everything west of the Urals (which happen to hold most of their population), for Turkey it's west of the Bosphorus so mainly half of Istanbul

Level 61

Feb 22, 2023

Contraception should be first on the list of things supplied by the WHO and UN.

It's mind-blowing to look at this list, and think of how few of these locations have made the largest advancements for humanity.

Level 44

Feb 22, 2023

I was a little surprised to hear that Uganda has a bigger population than Canada.

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