What is your country famous for?

International Students
281

<p>orphans and gypsies - Romania</p>

282

<p>I’m from Panama.</p>

<p>Known for?

  • Panama Canal
  • Colon Free Trade Zone (known to business-oriented people I guess)
  • Drug transportation between Colombia and Mexico goes through here =P</p>

<p>Everything else, including poverty and corruption is just too common in other countries to mention too =p</p>

283

<p>Scotland: Also famous for: Having the murder capital of western europe - Glasgow</p>

<p>And once had the heroine capital of Europe - Edinburgh.</p>

<p>Glasgow was about to break its reputation as being bad for crime until a new gang war broke out at ASDA supermarket this week.</p>

284

<p>Italy: Pizza, rome, vatican, colleseum, amanda knox, football, lovely ladies, a sexy language, ferrari, lambo, armani, gucci, fendi :wink: </p>

<p>argentina:Polo
Rugby
Hockey
Race horses
Tourism: Bariloche
Buenos Aires
Mar del Plata
Glaciar “Perito Moreno”
Patagonia
Literature: Borges
Cortazar
Bioy Casares
Dance: Bocca
Wines
Music: Tango
Education: University of Buenos Aires (300,000 students)
Sports: Maradona in football, Fangio in Formula 1 (5 time champion)
Food: cow meet barbaq (asado), dulce de leche
Agriculture: Big primary products producer
Wars: Falkland
Economical crisis: 4 differents presidents in two weeks
The most european country in latin america
Politics: Peron y Evita (Dont cry for me Argentina…), El Che Guevara</p>

285

<p>Mozart & the Strauss’ & Haydn & & &…, Hitler, classical music, Schnitzel, Mozartkugel, Manner, Hermann Maier, Apfelstrudel, Freud, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Viennese Waltz & the ball season, yodeling, Sound of Music, New Year’s Concert, Vienna Boys’ Choir, skiing, mountain climbing/hiking, Goethe, lotsa castles and palaces, Sachertorte (for Vienna), caf</p>

286

<p>More from Austria:</p>

<p>Lindt chocolate.
Alpine lakes.
A 315 km² lake where the deepest natural point is only 1.8m - you can walk it - easy way to slip between Hungary & Austria if you ask me :wink: .
A supposedly neutral country with six months mandatory military service for males
Ötzi, although apparently he is, strictly speaking, <10m within Italy.
Venus of Willendorf.
Kitzbühl
*<strong><em>ing, Austria (no, don’t censor, it really is a place in Upper Austria!).
Amerika, Austria (near *</em></strong>ing, it’s not even a village - 3 barns. 3 barns = america)
IAEA, OPEC, UNODC, OSCE, UNIDO and other UN organisations (3. UN Capital after New York and Geneva, before Nairobi).
Kindergarten.
The only country with less than 10mil inhabitants where not even all the Austrians can understand the other Austrians (have you even heard the people from closed valleys in Tirol?! they’re UNINTELLIGIBLE!!)
Jörg Haider, the FPÖ :s
2008 UEFA European Football Championship
The only country in Europe that has 1. the highest rate of teenager smoking (i think we’ve even managed to beat spain!), 2. one of the highest rates of teen alcohol consumption, and also 3. is ranked one of the highest in young people viewing themselves as super healthy and fit. nice.</p>

<p>and yes, Austria is smaller than Maine.</p>

287

<p>Moldova: one of the poorest country in Europe. 7 april, chisinau (google it) :(</p>

288

<p>Ethnically from South Korea:</p>

<p>Hyundai!
Very slim slim lcd TVs
and of course Kimchi</p>

289

<p>Turkey;
-Great food
-A huge percentage is smoking
-Different climates (you can swim and ski in two hours)
-ISTANBUL!!</p>

290

<p>Russia is famous for many many things and they are: the largest country in the world, the prettiest girls, vodka, Yuri Gagarin, Russia won the WW2, the best ice hockley players, Russian architecture, Russian musicians (Rakhmaninov etc), AK-47…many things as I said</p>

291

<p>South Korea is famous for Park Ji Sung, a wing player of Manchester United!!</p>

<p>Furthermore our nation is also famed for strength of IT technology!</p>

292

<p>Guess which country I’m from…</p>

<p>Salmon
Voss Water
John Carew
Skiing
Snow and icy waters
OIL!
Free healthcare</p>

<p>and finally…</p>

<p>The Nobel peace prize concert</p>

293

<p>Norway? xDD</p>

294

<p>What gave it away? The salmon? :slight_smile: LOL</p>

295

<p>New Zealand:
People ride sheep and have kiwis as pets (I know, whenever people from our school go abroad, we pretend we don’t know what leg wax is and they teach it to us)</p>

296

<p>Afghanistan</p>

<p>unfortunately now for: </p>

<p>opium, war, Taliban, corruption, guerilla warfare, burqas etc…</p>

<p>But it has always been famous for its: </p>

<p>Afghan carpets, pomegrantes, grapes, nuts (especially pistachios), great kababs, famous poets like Rumi, Baydel, Sana’i, Jami, Ansari, Khoshal Khatak, Rabeha Balkhi, silk trade, etc.</p>

297

<p>Mt. Everest, Gautam Buddha, temples and ancient palaces, beautiful mountains and hills, Bengal tigers, one-horned rhinos etc etc etc</p>

298

<p>Singapore: National Service that stubbornly insists 2 years as compared to other 1st world countries (that are not in a state of war) with 1 year or less; in other words, a developed country with 3rd-world autocratic practices.</p>

<p>Malaysia: Over-development in Klang Valley, negligence in East Malaysia. On the good side though, they’re on their way to become developed without using the ‘reckless’ way Singapore did.</p>

<p>In conclusion, I believe my eventual emigration to North America will be justified.</p>

299

<p>HONG KONG
very very tall buildings but very very small apartments!</p>

300

<h2>PAKISTAN</h2>

<p>Leather goods, sports goods, world’s second highest mountain K-2, the only Muslim nuclear power country, a key role player in the War Against Terror, terrorists :P, beautiful mountains and hills, agricultural products (mostly cotton, rice, wheat, sugar)</p>