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The above coin set features uncirculated-condition coins of THE MALDIVES, also known as Maldives or the Maldive Islands. Maldives' currency is the Maldivian Rufiyaa, each Rufiyaa being subdivided into 100 laari. The currency's ISO 4217 code is MVR. The small, 15-millimeter 1 Laari coin encloses a palm tree within a circle and is an FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) coin. Like the coin in my image above, the 1 Laari FAO coin was first minted in 1984. The scalloped-shape 5 Laari, scalloped-shape 10 Laari, 25, and circular 50 Laari coins are also part of the FAO coin program, an international numismatic endeavor of the United Nation's FAO. This organization seek to address hunger and food insecurity issues while supporting farmers and food producers.
A loggerhead sea turtle designed by Ahmed Abbas and Maizan Hassan Manik graces the 50 Laari coin from 1995. The circular, 20.2-millimeter 25 Laari coin is comprised of a copper alloy: nickel brass (electrum). The endangered loggerhead turtle species was a common - and controversial - food source for Maldivian citizens and others. This is why the 25 Laari "turtle coin" was part of the FAO coin program. Nowadays, many Maldivian citizens are weaning off from this dietary choice and seeking to protect beloved loggerhead turtles. The 1 Rufiyaa coin is the final coin in this coin set, being specifically minted in 1996 and first minted in 1982. On all the coins, non-English text is written in Dhivehi (Maldivian) - the Maldives' official language.
Geography
The Maldives is an Indian Ocean archipelago of atolls and a country located in southern Asia, particularly southwest of India and west of Sri Lanka. The capital of Maldives is Male (Malé), which has more than 100,000 residents. More info can be found on this GeoFact of the Day Blog post.
“Souvlaki” Episode Description: Teams travel to Halkidiki, Greece, where they are tested on their spelling and memory skills.
Episode Airdate: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 on CBS
After experiencing two episodes worth of various picturesque locations in Corsica, FRANCE, teams flew eastward to another picturesque destination: northeastern GREECE. Episode 8 of the The Amazing Race mostly centered around the Halkidikí (Chalkidikí) Peninsula. Once they arrived at Peraía Beach in the town of Peraía near the city of Thessaloníki…
● Teams drove to the Konstantinos Olive Grove in the village of Néa Gonía and were tasked with finding a clue high up in an olive tree. Cayla and Raquel made use of the shoulder-stepping method — which displayed their dependable teamwork — to reach the clue. Unfortunately, they did not have to resort to the clever but shoulder-hurting maneuver because The Amazing Race showed a ladder close by! Teams traveled to Marianna’s Vineyard and encountered the episode’s first…
● Roadblock (“Who Likes to Wrap?”): Marianna’s Vineyard typically grows grapes to harvest the fruit’s leaves and not necessarily to make wine. One member on each team combined a mixture of rice, vegetables, and spices and filled grape leaves to make 60 dolmades, which are essentially “leaf burritos” as Dusty said. Kim successfully prepared her wraps first, maintaining Team Kim and Penn’s longstanding lead in the competition. Meanwhile, Raquel had difficulty in wrapping the dolmades to the satisfaction of the vineyard’s proprietor but finally found success after some trial and error.
● Teams visited Mamo’s Kantina Stand near Heraklia Beach about 13.4 miles and 21.6 kilometers east of Mount Olympus (Olympos). They asked the food cart vendor about the Dish of the Day and were instructed to spell the name of this cuisine: souvlaki. Teams then had to make a decision that would make some vegan and vegetarian viewers cringe or change the channel: choosing whether to eat a chicken souvlaki or a pork souvlaki. While clues for the next stop are typically found in an iconic black-and-yellow envelope, this clue was simply a place name (Saint George Church) printed on the souvlaki’s wrapper. Many teams did not notice the clue at first, including Lala and Lulu who ate several souvlaki servings and were puzzled about not receiving a traditional clue envelope in hand.
● Roadblock (“Who Wants to be Iconic?”): Néa Irákleia’s Saint George Orthodox Church is a circular and three-tiered structure featuring an octagonal bell tower. Outside in the church’s plaza, one member on each team took about ten minutes to listen to a priest as he taught them about Saint Anastasia (of Sirmium), Saint Christopher, Saint David (the Dendrite), Saint George, Saint Irene, Saint John the Apostle, Saint John the Theologian, Saint Mercurius, Saint Nicholas (of Myra), and several other saints. He or she had to correctly identify the illustrations of five saints — St. Anastasia, St. Christopher, St. David, St. Irene, and St. Mercurius — based on a vendor’s variety of quiz questions. Penn successfully completed this task first.
● Pit Stop: Néa Kallikráteia — a fishing port overlooking the Thermaic Gulf (Thermaïkós Kólpos) which is a component of the Aegean Sea
● An extra GeoFact: the Aegean Sea is home to over 1,400 islands.
● Before arriving at the souvlaki task(s) mentioned above and consuming way more souvlaki then they would’ve liked, Lala and Lulu somehow found the Pit Stop and show host Phil Keoghan before finding the souvlaki stand! While having the “advantage” of knowing the Pit Stop location ahead of time, this sneak peek ultimately did not help them since they ended up in last place and were eliminated from the competition. In this season, the twin duo occasionally argued with each other but quickly became one of my favorite teams as they tried to make the most out of their traveling mishaps — especially when they attempted to eat not-so-yummy meals! Their Amazing Race journey seems relatable; for me, traveling is not 100% enjoyable but I try to make positive memories nevertheless!
● On the next episode of The Amazing Race and even closer to the $1 million finale, “Teams leave no stone unturned”…
Season 33, Episode 8 Results
1st — Kim and Penn [same as previous episode]
1st place prize — $7,500 each
2nd — Cayla and Raquel [same as previous episode]
3rd — Dusty and Ryan [same as previous episode]
4th — Arun and Natalia
5th — Lala and Lulu
Eliminated from the competition
You may know about Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famed poet and philosopher who began inspiring people in the 1800s with his words and wisdom. There are two towns in Columbia County in southern Arkansas that, together, seem to pay tribute to Emerson. Combining the names of these towns with the town of Ralph in Marion County, Arkansas results in the full name of the talented man!
However, the town and depot of Emerson is actually named in dedication to Reuben Logan Emerson, an early Columbia County pioneer who encouraged the incorporation of the town on Friday, March 10th, 1905. Some locals colloquially called the town Reuben instead of Emerson. Reuben Emerson pursued a variety of employment opportunities in his lifetime; he was a politician at the state level, banker, merchant, Columbia Banner newspaper owner, and teacher. Nowadays, some of the 368 people living in Emerson are employed with jobs in various sectors including agriculture, bromine, local banking and business, natural gas, petroleum, timber, etc. Since 1990, the people of Emerson and surrounding areas organize the Purple Hull Pea Festival. The annual June celebration honors the local cultivation of the purple hull pea crop and includes a cook-off competition for cornbread and peas, pea-shelling competition, Purple Hull Pea Farmer of the Year award, Walk for World “Peas” (Peace), and World Championship Rotary Tiller Race.
Home to 1,372 people in the year 2010, Waldo is like Emerson because it, too, was not named after Ralph Waldo Emerson (nor the Where’s Waldo guy). According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas (↗), Waldo was named “after a railway officer in 1884” and was soon incorporated on August 13th, 1888. The town thrived with a railroad, timber industry, and various businesses before a catastrophic tornado — and later the Great Depression — pummeled the community in the 1930s. Beginning in 1938, the extraction of natural gas and petroleum from the Magnolia Oil Field helped the town recover. Since the beginning of Waldo’s existence, the local banking and timber industries still employ residents. In fact, one of the town’s National Register of Historic Places is the Bank of Waldo, established in 1899 — the other is a circa-1935 water tower.
While the Arkansan towns of Emerson and Waldo are not named after the revered Ralph Waldo Emerson, American society is commemorating his legacy in other ways: museum exhibits, reading his books and poems, statues, artwork, and even personal poems that are inspired by Mr. Emerson.
GEOFACT OF THE DAY → Located in the northwestern corner of Sharkey County along U.S. Highway 61 in western Mississippi, Panther Burn had an estimated population of 300 in 1988 and has remained almost the same — without any noticeable developments — ever since. Almost completely surrounded by farmland (mostly grain and some cotton), Panther Burn is home to several dozen homes. Due to the community’s agricultural heritage, there are quite a few grain bins, storage buildings, and pole barns to store crops and equipment. Saint John M.B. (Missionary Baptist) Church is located along the U.S. Highway, and the community used to have several businesses including Leon’s Juke Joint.
The Ophelia Explains It All Blog (↗) notes that Panther Burn “does have a post office.” To clarify, the town has a ZIP code all to itself: 38765, which is rather easy to remember because of its consecutive numbers! However, the nearest post offices and approved postal providers in existence as of October 2019 are found in the towns of Anguilla (6.9 miles away), Arcola (14.1 mi), Chatham (10.6 mi), Glen Allan (8.4 mi), Grace (6.3 mi), Hollandale (7.3 mi), and Rolling Fork (10.9 mi) according to the online United States Postal Service post-office lookup (↗).
Undoubtedly, one of the most intriguing aspects of this town would be its unique name.
Here is one of the local lore explanations for Panther Burn being named Panther Burn, according to Ellen Ciurczak of the Hattiesburg American newspaper (↗): a panther frightened the locals, so they captured the threatening animal in a barn which they set on fire. Ciurczak notes, “While watching the blaze, they yelled ‘Burn panther burn!’” The simplest (and less gruesome) explanation for the “burn” part of the town’s name is that it could refer to the town’s local proximity to a stream, which happens to be labeled Deer Creek on US Geological Survey topographic maps. “Burn” is an English term used to indicate small rivers, streams, and creeks. Maybe instead of Deer Creek, locals call it Panther Creek — especially if panthers were spotted along the banks decades ago. A commenter (Katie Dean Davis) on the Ophelia Explains It All Blog said she knows about Panther Burn and visited the town on from time to time. She explained the name of Panther Burn which “goes back to May 22, 1816”:
Martha Patience Vick married Colonel William Willis. The couple received a house on Cherry Street in Vicksburg and Panther Burn Plantation as wedding gifts. The name was derived from the clearing of the land for farm and settlement. They weren’t setting the panthers on fire, but their shelter in the brush of the swamp land [was] being cleared for cotton crops. Legend tells of panthers running from burn pile to burn pile seeking shelter.
Despite being a small dot on the map, Panther Burn is referenced in at least one book, movie, and song. A fictional sheriff of Panther Burn — and possibly Sharkey County as a whole — is mentioned in Blue Brothers 2000, a 1998 musical comedy film starring Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman. In 2009, Roosevelt Wright Jr. published a fiction book entitled The Children of Panther Burn: A Historic Fiction. For your reference in case you wish to buy and read the book, Wright Jr.’s book has the following 13-digit International Standard Book Number: 9781440146510 (ISBN-13). Jimmy Phillips dropped an album called “Desperate Moon” in 2012, and a reminiscent country song called Panther Burn is featured on it.
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Data regarding the exports and international trading partners of MONACO is sparse, hence why it was not included in the original Exports series on GeoFact of the Day. The following items are major exports of Monaco, according to the Encyclopedia of the Nations at NationsEncyclopedia.com: cards, cosmetics and other beauty products, glassware, packaged food, perfume, pharmaceuticals, postage stamps, precision machinery, and re-exports from other countries.
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and a majority of other countries (unlisted). Trade is predominantly conducted with other European countries, especially European Union members.
For the complete list of the world's countries and their main exports and trading partners, access the Countries & Their Exports post (↗) — published today!
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ANDORRA: audio alarms, automobiles and automobile parts, blank audio media, cigarette paper, compasses, essential oil, furniture, gold, grain, hobby models, house linens, integrated circuits, iron, machinery, orthopedic appliances, perfume, petroleum gas, stuffed animals, telephones, tobacco products, various vegetables, and video displays.
Countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Spain (top importer), Switzerland, Mauritania, France, the United States, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Chile, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mexico, Guatemala, Senegal, Central African Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy, Colombia, Argentina, Canada, and Palau.
For the complete list of the world's countries and their main exports and trading partners, access the Countries & Their Exports post (↗) — published today!
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ZIMBABWE: air pumps, aircraft, animal hides, asbestos, beverages, cement, centrifuges, chemicals, chromium, citrus fruit, clothing and textiles, coal, coffee, collector’s items, computers, construction vehicles, copper, corn (maize), cotton, cut flowers, diamonds, dried legumes, electricity to neighboring countries, ferroalloys, fertilizer, figurines and sculptures, footwear, fruit juice, furniture, gold, granite, graphite, gypsum, hairpieces and wigs, iron, lead, lithium, livestock, malt, medical supplies, metal goods, nickel and nickel mattes, niobium, oilseeds, packaged food, paper containers, peanuts and other ground nuts, pepper, pesticides, platinum, prefabricated buildings, refrigerators, rice, seafood, sowing seeds, spices, steel, sugarcane, tantalum, tea, telephones, tin, tobacco, transformers and transmissions, tungsten, vanadium, vegetable products, wheat, wood and wood products, yarn, and zirconium.
Zimbabwe produces a variety of machinery. Functions of the machinery manufactured in the Southern African country include bottling, construction, cooling, excavation, heating, industrial food preparation, liquid dispersal, and stone processing — among others. According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of Zimbabwe's exports include South Africa (top importer), Mozambique, Zambia, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Malawi, Italy, the Netherlands, Tunisia, China, the United States, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Sudan, and Tanzania.
That concludes the Country Exports series on GeoFact of the Day!
Soon, there will be a post containing convenient a Word document, which will combine all the post links together for easy access.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of ZAMBIA: animal hides, barley, beverages, bran, breakfast cereal, broadcasting equipment, cassava, cereal meal and pellets, chemicals, clothing and textiles, coal, cobalt, coffee, confectionery sugar, construction vehicles and cranes, copper, copper products (including bars and wire), corn (maize), cut flowers, excavation machinery, fertilizer, frozen vegetables, gemstones (especially diamonds and emeralds), gold, hydroelectricity to neighboring countries, insulated wire, interchangeable tool parts, iron products, lead, legumes, liquid pumps, magnesium carbonate, military ammunition and weapons, molasses, mollusks, olive and palm oil, packaged food, paper containers, peanuts, postage stamps, poultry meat, quicklime, raw and refined copper, rice, silver, sorghum, soybeans and soybean meal, sugarcane, sulphur (sulfur), sunflower seeds, tobacco, unmentioned edible preparations, uranium (small amounts), vegetable residues, wheat flour, wood, yeast, and zinc.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Switzerland (top importer), China, the United Arab Emirates, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Malawi, Luxembourg, Tanzania, Japan, Kenya, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Germany, Rwanda, Burundi, South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Mauritius, Algeria, Swaziland, the United States, Uganda, Angola, Australia, Hungary, Ireland, and Madagascar.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of YEMEN: aircraft parts, animal food, automobiles, baked goods, barley, bran, buckwheat, buses, cargo and passenger ships, cement, ceramic tableware, cereal meal, clothing and textiles, coal (small amounts), coffee, combustion engines, concentrated milk, copper, corn (maize), cotton, crabs and other crustaceans, cut flowers, dried and salted seafood, electric motors, fruit juice, gold, grapes, handicrafts, khat (qat) plants, lead, liquefied natural gas, marble, medical supplies, melons, mollusks, nickel, oilseeds, onions, petroleum, pulses, rock salt, scrap copper, scrap plastic, sheep hides, soap, sugar, tea, tobacco, tropical fruit (especially bananas), vegetable oil, and wheat flour.
Certain industries — particularly the automobile industry in Yemen — experience sharp fluctuations in operations from year to year when dealing with complications caused by civil unrest, destruction, and terrorism. The automobile industry was considered to be in shambles only a few years ago but fared well last year (2017) due to an increase in orders for vehicles.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include China (top importer), Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Egypt, Malaysia, the United States, South Korea, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia, Djibouti, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Vietnam, Argentina, Jordan, Japan, the Netherlands, Thailand, Ethiopia, Belgium, Lebanon, Eritrea, and India.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VIETNAM: animal food, automobile parts, baked goods, bananas, batteries, bauxite, beverages (especially beer and liquor), broadcasting and video-recording equipment, cases and trunks, cashews, cassava, cement, chromate, cinnamon and other spices, circuit boards, clothing and textiles, coal briquettes, coal, coffee, copper pipes, electric motors, electric transformers, electricity to neighboring countries, electronics, feldspar, fertilizer, footwear, frozen fruit and nuts, furniture, glass, gravel, headphones and microphones, industrial printers, iron products, machinery, malt extract, manganese, natural gas, nickel, office machine parts, packaged food, paddy rice, pasta, peanuts, pepper, petroleum products, phosphates, quicklime, rare earth elements, rubber, seafood, silverware, soybeans, starches, steel, sugarcane, tea, telephones, tobacco, toys, valves, wheat flour, and wood products.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Italy, the Philippines, France, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Cambodia, India, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Israel, and Sweden.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VENEZUELA: aluminum, animal hides, asphalt, automobile parts, bananas, basic manufactured goods, bauxite, beef, beverages (especially liquor), buckwheat, chemicals, chocolate, citrus fruit, clothing and textiles, coal briquettes, cocoa butter, coffee, corn (maize), dairy products, diamonds, eggs, electronics, excavation machinery, fertilizer, float glass, gold, insulated wire, iron materials, iron ore, melons, molasses, natural gas, oilseeds, packaged food, paper products, perfume plants, petroleum and petroleum coke, pork, rice, seafood (especially crabs and crabmeat), sorghum, steel, sugarcane, telephones, tomatoes, tree nuts, and wood fiberboard.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), China, India, Singapore, the Netherlands Antilles, Singapore, Cuba, Japan, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Aruba, Spain, Jamaica, Sweden, Nicaragua, Malaysia, South Africa, Nigeria, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, France, Poland, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, and Saint Lucia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of VANUATU: antiques, beef, cleaning products, cocoa, coconuts and copra, coffee, dried fruit, electric lighting, fish netting, handicrafts, iron gas containers, kava, numismatic (coin) collectibles, other tropical fruits and vegetables, refined petroleum, seafood, semiconductor devices, signaling equipment, taro, tug boats, wood, and yams.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Fiji (top importer), Thailand, Japan, China, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Venezuela, the United States, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Hong Kong, Chile, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the United Kingdom, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Russia, Canada, Vietnam, Turkey, Nigeria, the Netherlands, and Mongolia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of UZBEKISTAN: alcoholic beverages, aluminum bars, animal food, animal hides, automobiles, cabbage, chemicals, clothing and textiles, copper and iron products, copper wire, cotton, cucumbers and zucchinis, dried fruit, dried legumes, equipment and machinery, fertilizers, flavored water, fruit juice, gold, grapes, insulated wire, monofilaments, nuts, onions, packaged food, paper pulp, peat, perfume plants, petroleum products, pitted fruit, polymers, precious metal scraps, printed material, radioactive elements, refined copper, root vegetables, tobacco, utility meters, valves, wheat flour, yarn, and zinc.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Turkey (top importer), Russia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Ukraine, Iran, India, Poland, Tajikistan, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Belarus, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Spain, the United States, Portugal, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of URUGUAY: adhesives, aluminum foil, animal fat and margarine, animal hides, automobile parts, automobiles, batteries, beverages, blood for medical uses, cellulose, chemicals, citrus and other fruit, cleaning products, clothing and textiles, dairy products (especially concentrated milk), electric machinery, fertilizer, flour, furniture, gemstones, gold, insulated wire, iron pipes, kaolin-coated paper, malt, meat, medical supplies, orthopedic appliances, packaged food, pesticides, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, plastic products, rice, scrap copper, seafood, seeds, soybeans, synthetic dyes, transportation equipment, vegetable sap, wheat, wood, and wool.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Brazil (top importer), China, the United States, Argentina, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Israel, Russia, Spain, Chile, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Canada, Colombia, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam, Bolivia, Hong Kong, France, Cuba, Poland, South Korea, and South Africa.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED STATES: air and liquid pumps, aircraft, aluminum plating, animal food, apples, armored vehicles, automobiles, baked goods, beauty products, berries, beverages (especially alcohol, flavored water, juice), blood for medical uses, broadcasting equipment, card and video games, centrifuges, chemicals, chocolate, cleaning products, coal briquettes, coal tar oil, coffee, combustion and spark-ignition engines, computers, copper ore, corn (maize), cotton, dairy products, delivery trucks, diamonds and other gemstones, dried legumes, electric control boards, electric motors, electric power accessories, electric transformers, excavation machinery, and forage crops.
Even more exports include frozen produce, furniture, gold, grapes, heating machinery, industrial printers, insulated wire, integrated circuits, iron products, jewelry, kaolin, laboratory instruments, lead ore, low-voltage protection equipment, machines for manufacturing, meat, medical devices and supplies, nuts, office machine parts, oilseeds, oranges, orthopedic appliances, oscilloscopes, paper products and pulp, pears, pesticides, petroleum and petroleum gas, pharmaceuticals, photo lab equipment, pitted fruit, plastic products, platinum, precious metal scraps, rice, sauce and seasoning, scrap aluminum, scrap copper, scrap iron, semiconductor devices, silver, sorghum, soybean meal, soybeans, starch residue, steel, telephones, televisions and video displays, titanium, tractors, trailers, transmissions, transportation parts, turbines, valves, wheat, wood, X-ray equipment, and zinc ore.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Canada (top importer), Mexico, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Belgium, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Malaysia, Spain, Colombia, Austria, Chile, Thailand, Ireland, Vietnam, Turkey, Peru, and Dominican Republic.
According to MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED KINGDOM: aircraft and automobile parts, aircraft, aluminum, animal food, antiques, artwork (especially paintings and sculptures), automobiles, baked goods, barley, beauty supplies, beverages, blood for medical use, boats, broadcasting equipment, brochures and other paper products, centrifuges, chemicals, chocolate, cleaning products, clothing, coffee, computers, delivery trucks, diamonds, dried legumes, engines, furniture, gas and electric turbines, gold, jewelry, leather footwear, liquid pumps, low-voltage protection equipment, medical instruments and supplies, metal products, nitrogen compounds, pesticides, petroleum, petroleum gas, pharmaceuticals, plastic products, platinum, potatoes, scientific instruments, scrap aluminum, scrap copper, scrap iron, tea, telephones, tires, titanium, tractors, wheat, and valves.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include the United States (top importer), Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, China, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Hong Kong, Japan, Turkey, Sweden, South Korea, Poland, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Saudi Arabia, India, Norway, Russia, Denmark, South Africa, Czech Republic, Angola, and Austria.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: aluminum, automobiles, baked goods, beauty and shaving products, broadcasting equipment, chemicals, chocolate, clothing and textiles, computers, concentrated milk, construction materials, copper wire, dates, diamonds and other gemstones, dried legumes, dried seafood, electric batteries, engines, equipment and machinery, fertilizer, flavored water, fruit juice, gas turbines, gold, handicrafts, iron products, jewelry, light fixtures, meat, medical supplies, natural gas, nuts, parts for aircraft and automobiles, pepper, perfume, petroleum and petroleum products, polymers, precious metal watches, printed material, re-exports from other countries, rice, rubber tires, scrap aluminum and copper, ships, spices, sugar, synthetic yarn, tea, telephones, tobacco, and tropical fruit.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include India (top importer), Iran, Switzerland, Oman, Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Kuwait, Qatar, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Iraq.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of UKRAINE: air and liquid pumps, aircraft, automobiles, baked goods, ball bearings, bran, cargo and passenger ships, chemicals, chocolate, clay, coal, coats and suits, concentrated milk and other dairy products, confectionery sugar, corn (maize), eggs, electric equipment (heaters, motors, transformers, etc.), electricity to neighboring countries, equipment and machinery, fertilizer, footwear, frozen fruit and nuts, fruit juice, gas and steam turbines, glass bottles, grain (especially barley and wheat), gravel, honey, insulated wire, iron and steel products, iron ore, kaolin, low-voltage protection equipment, malt extract, natural gas, nickel, packaged food, paper products (especially wallpaper), petroleum and petroleum products, pharmaceuticals, plastic sheeting, poultry meat, refined copper, soybeans, sugar beets, sunflower seeds and other oilseeds, telephones, televisions, titanium, tobacco, transmissions, transportation parts, vegetable residues for animal feed, and wood.
According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include India (top importer), Russia, Egypt, Turkey, China, Italy, Poland, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Iran, Hungary, the United States, Belarus, Romania, Israel, Czech Republic, Algeria, Iraq, and Austria.
According to National Geographic MapMaker (mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org) and MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity (atlas.media.mit.edu), the following items are major exports of UGANDA: aircraft parts, animal hides, baked goods, beverages, broadcasting equipment, buckwheat, cassava, cement, clothing and textiles, cobalt, cocoa beans, coffee, construction vehicles, copper, corn (maize), cotton (raw and prepared), cut flowers and other horticultural items, dried legumes, electricity to neighboring countries, flour, frozen vegetables, glass bottles, gold, iron products, leather, limestone, milk and concentrated milk, millet, oilseeds, potatoes, pulses, rice, seafood, soap, steel, sugar, tea, and tobacco. According to February 2017 statistics from the International Monetary Fund (data.imf.org), countries and territories buying and importing most of those exports include Kenya (top importer), South Sudan, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Tanzania, the Netherlands, Burundi, Sudan, Hong Kong, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, China, Spain, India, Tunisia, Zambia, and Portugal.
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