Can you pick one of these countries and tell me one thing they're known for without looking it up online?

[MCheetah]

I'm working on one of my many projects. This one is on countries. Please pick one or more of these countries and tell me what they're known for, or what you think they're known for, without researching it. Although your answer will count for less credit if you're actually from there, due to homeland bias. Thanks.

- The Netherlands (Besides mentioning giant people, Amsterdam's sex industry/po rn, dams, clogs, or windmills.)
- Nicaragua
- Dominican Republic
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Guyana, French Guiana, or Suriname (Bonus points for this! Most people don't know these countries even exist.)
- Finland
- Bulgaria
- Turkey
- Lebanon
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Laos (Bonus points for this.)
- Papua New Guinea
- Libya, Tunisia, or Algeria
- Senegal or Gambia
- Niger or Chad
- Rwanda

[KostasKouvalis]

Okay, I can do this.

Netherlands (Tulips)

Nicaragua (The Sandinista movement)

Dominican Republic (Having both the highest and lowest point in the Caribbean)

Argentina (Having more shrinks per capita than any other place on earth)

Bolivia (Being the first Latin American country to elect an Indigenous president)

Guyana (Jonestown massacre)

Suriname (being the only Dutch speaking nation in South America)

French Guiana (Not a country but an overseas department. Known for Devil's Island)

Finland (Being the only nation where metal music is mainstream)

Bulgaria (being the birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet)

Turkey (being the only Western style democracy in the Muslim world)

Lebanon (having the largest Christian population in the Arab world)

Pakistan (being the home of the Indus Valley civilization, which is now believed to predate Mesopotamia)

Bangladesh (being home to the largest mangrove ecosystem on earth)

Laos (suffered a bombing campaign that was overshadowed by the more famous Vietnam War)

Papua New Guinea (its primative tribes)

Libya (having the best preserved Roman ruins in North Africa)

Tunisia (having the oldest synagogue in Africa)

Algeria (being the only country in North Africa that has Cheetahs)

Senegal (electing a Christian president despite its vast majority Muslim population)

Gambia (its narrow boundary running along the river of the same name)

Niger (being the home of the Fulani herdsmen, and their colorful and bizarre mating ritual)

Chad (its spectacular sandstone arch formations)

Rwanda (its bizarre methane filled lake known as Lake Kivu)

[KostasKouvalis]

Ahhhhhh! I only had to do one. God damnit! Oh well. The more you know

[LovingLoverReturned]

Damn... Algeria has Cheetahs. That's cool. Lol... I would think they don't promote this more.. what the hell

[KostasKouvalis]

@LovingLoverReturned Yeah, not very many, but they have safaris to see them for the few people they allow to visit the country.
Where are YOU from?

[MCheetah]

@KostasKouvalis
Are you implying you didn't research any of this? Not at all?

[KostasKouvalis]

I mean, I did before, but not specifically for the purpose of answering this question

[KostasKouvalis]

You're damn right I'm getting MHO

[htmndg183]

Netherlands: another name for the country is Holland and they made it to the 2010 fifa world cup final.
Nicaragua: Cigars
Dominican Republic: one of the countries represented by the West Indies Cricket team
Argentina: steaks, meat, football (this one is super obvious lol) and they have a good rugby team too.
Bolivia: i only know that its a country in South America
Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname: South American countries with the first one being represented by the West Indies Cricket team.
Finland: Cold
Bulgaria: East European country that borders Turkey: Meat loving nation, cheap medical tourism and treatment
Lebanon: Shisha, Shawarma
Pakistan: Cricket, great flavourful food, land of many cultures with different languages, im from here.
Bangladesh: very densely populated
Laos: landlocked east Asian country bordering Thailand
PNG: Geraint Jones. He was a cricket player who played for England. Later on played for PNG.
Libya, Tunisia, Algeria: North African Arabic speaking countries.
Senegal: Akon
The rest that i am missing out on, i just know that those countries are located in Africa.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Turkey 🇹🇷 is known for being the heart of Europe and Asia (my own words of describing it) as it can be said to be both an Asian and European country. They have a unique village/group of people should speak a whistling😘 🎶 language.. They are known for helping during the Korean War, and have a movie called "My Korean daughter." They are known for kebabs and pistachio pastries and are the first to tru launching a Kebab to space

Guyana 🇬🇾 is known for one of the world's tallest waterfalls and waterfall of blood 💉 ... with vast rainforests and lots of uninhabited land, it isn't uncommon for people in some regions to take boats to reach from place to place. Lying on the South American continent, they speak English as an official language and still have native tribes.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Libya is known to be recovering from war and still has terrorist uprisings sometimes. They had a famous and infamous leader (depends who you ask) Gaddafi... yes Gaddafi... they have unstable internet connection and are African, Arab and Berber mainly.

[LovingLoverReturned]

🇱🇾 Honestly I'm sad to say that's what I first think of with Libyav.. I knew someone from there. They were a cool person. But I'm just being honest.

Oh... I want to add I have not been to turkey 🇹🇷 but they are also known for being a country that loves cats 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛ 😺 they have a statue of a street cat that everybody fed... I will get his name wrong but something like Tomcebili ouff sorry... and well I guess like many countries with middle eastern influence, they are hospitalable.

Very important, they are known for the Ottoman Empire.

Damn lol apparently they are known for a lit of things.. and I'm only listing widely known things that anybody who pays attention will realise.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Lastly I will tell about India and maybe Pakistan when I recall.. if it is significant.. just taking a food break

[LovingLoverReturned]

🤣 also might i say, but I don't mean any disrespect, I don't know Algeria what for anything unique despite except my first boyfriend was from there.

So India 🇮🇳 ... from what i know... is know for their religious festivals namely The festival of Lights 🪔 🪔 🪔 🪔 🪔 Divali and and colorful and fun festival Holi where colorful powder is thrown on people. 😀😃🙂... known as the birthplace of Hinduism and having the Taj Mahal (a romance story of a king building this large, place in honour of his wife) and interesting religions temples. Their love of cricket.

Pakistan 🇵🇰 is known for Pink Himalayan salt, and their love of Cricket 🏏 ... sorry if this starts negative but ends happily... if you ask me they are known for Malala (a young girl who was shot by the Taliban for wanting education) but Malala became an inspiration to many young girls and had a supportive father and family.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Malala Yusefzari..

My spelling may be a little bit off but it is very close I know.

[LovingLoverReturned]

Oh you said one 😆 thing? ? My apologies first you said one country... then in your description you allowed more than one and said in general "tell what they are known for without researching " so I gave a general answer.

[MCheetah]

"[Turkey is] known for helping during the Korean War, and have a movie called 'Ayla, Daughter of War.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C9OwW9qcKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U5FnzQcNKc

[LovingLoverReturned]

Yes I saw the movie, did you? Or? I'm not sure what you want to say.

[LovingLoverReturned]

oHHHH i GET what you mean... it has two names. The Turkish name is Ayla: Daughter of war (I watched this)... the Korean name is "My Korean Daughter'"' not sure if officially, but it's another name for it.

[Anonymous]

The Netherlands: very friendly people, best beef and dairy, lots of flowers, very rich
Argentina: Maddona
Finland: very cold, calm and peaceful and safe with good social security, small population, good economy
Turkey: Turkish baths, poetry, history, architecture, great tv series, great music industry, clothing retail, beaches, poverty, very awful airlines and poor customer service
Lebanon: Good food, nice people
Laos: lots of healthy seafood
All I know about the rest is that they are mostly poor and dangerous.
You could look up Wikipedia. It's short and sweet.

[Stoner710]

Turkey was an Multicontinental empire during the Ottoman Empire, there 2 greatest losses was the battle of La ponto which was a navel battle which the Spain won and Miguel de Cervantes the guy who wrote donkihote lost his arm in the battle.

there 2nd greasiest loss which made the known as the sick man of Europe was the battle of Vienna, they were through the gates of the city when a combined force of polls and Germans came in at the last moment to destroy the janissaries which was the Turkish elite force turkey never recovered

does that help

[Starlight007]

Finland famous for being a country with one of the most happiest people because that country is rich!, The sun takes long to set there in summer, and in winter they call it the gloomy season cause it's dark most hours of the day, so the up their vitamin D intake during those seasons to avoid getting depressed because they cannot get enough vitamin D from the sun. Oh yeah Finland is also super clean, The people there tend to be punctual, shy, introverted, truthful, including neat and organized.

[Starlight007]

ohhhh you said one thing okay there known for being one of the most happiest countries in the world because that country is RICH! it does well off financially!.

[Starlight007]

the're*

[RealMarek]

Argentina - Known for having a superiority complex relative to other Latin American countries.

Rwanda - Known for the 1994 genocide.

Guyana - Not known for much now, but it will be known soon for huge oil wealth.

[MCheetah]

Why does Argentina have a superiority complex? Being a North American, I don't know a single thing about it, although I know most of the other countries in South America that aren't listed (besides Paraguay).

[RealMarek]

During the early 20th century, resource-rich Argentina was wealthy and appeared to have the potential to become a great power. People from the Middle East and Europe, especially Italy, migrated there in large numbers. Unfortunately, left-wing populism took over, the country’s economy went into the gutter, and it became a frequently cited example of “unrealized potential.” The superiority complex, as near as I can tell, originated from self-consciousness about the blend of ethnicity being less indigenous and Iberian in origin than the rest of Latin America and also from the old days when Argentina had an exceptional economy.

So what went wrong? Unlike the US, where land was distributed in small plots to be worked by families, Argentina’s land was distributed in large plots. This resulted in a small number of magnate farm owners reliant on large numbers of tenant farm laborers with no ownership stake in the economy. Ironically, instead of protecting its small family farms and small businesses, the US has chosen to destroy them through agricultural subsidy policies, regulatory policies, and inheritance taxes that penalize small family farms, ans unbalanced importation of food and manufactured goods from overseas enabled by inflation. This is setting up a similar dynamic here with a growing majority who have little to no ownership stake of the economy.

[jamesgoldman]

I'll offer as much as I can about as many as I can


- Nicaragua make decent cigars not Cuban league but still good
- Dominican Republic see above
- Argentina went to war over the Falkland islands


- Guyana the country of production for one of my dad's favorite dark rums and the site of Jonestown and its eponymous mass suicide

[meetkitty123]

Im not sure i can name anything unique about these countries but what i can vaguely remember from history class in PR.

Nicaragua- Dominican Republic- Argentina- BoliviaSpeak SpanishArgentina roast coffeeFrench Guiana I believe is to France like Puerto Rico is to the USA roughly not exactly tropical near the equatorLaos communism I thinkArgentina- Bolivia- Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname are in south Africa Dominican republic in the Caribbean near Puerto Rico

[meetkitty123]

Not south Africa sorry typo
South America

[meetkitty123]

Thats actually kinda funny 🤣 typo stuff all lose countries into one silly mistake thats what I get for using predictive text
Oh and GaG scrambled my layout again 🙄 I hate when it removes the spaces and new paragraphs

[HighValue]

Pakistan is known for hiding Bin Laden in plain sight right down the road from their leadership in a large residence that was very obvious.

Bulgaria is where Rusev from WWE is from.

[888theGreat]

DR is only place you can find Larimar Gem stone. It is on edges of cliffs and they hang by ropes and mine it. They also produce a lot of Cigars.

[Mangospacho]

Bolivia is the only landlocked nation in South America. Tunisia is the northernmost country in Africa.

[MCheetah]

Not quite correct, though. Paraguay is landlocked (and that country is too obscure to even make my list, so I didn't mention it on purpose). And Bolivia isn't 100% landlocked due to Lake Titicaca.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0Hee533Iw

[Mangospacho]

Ah! No! Good thing I used Tunisia as my backup.

[JesseJayNeak]

Nicaragua is home to the craziest boxer in history: Ricardo Mayorga

[Fuentes]

I know nothing but i know Laos cause of King Of The Hill

[Ms_Facesitter]

South korea, most suicides