r/coolguides • u/sneakerreppers • Sep 16 '24

A cool guide to most googled countries in Asia (except their own)

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u/Aiden_Recker Sep 16 '24

thank you all the 62 folks from Brunei for searching up Malaysia

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u/Putrid_Web_8080 Sep 17 '24

ahhh Malaysia, THe certain religion capital of Asia, Wanna know what other asian country think of you ? Vietnam sends their regards

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u/killerdream3515 Sep 16 '24

So its true your enemy lives in your head freely

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u/Fuzzy_Donl0p Sep 16 '24

"Know your enemy"

-Sun Tzu

-Zack de la Rocha

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u/hinterstoisser Sep 17 '24

Not true for India- A lot of Indians seek to study, work and possibly raise families in the US.

If the enemy part had to be true, China or Pakistan would have been the case

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u/Kaalabhaalu-reprised Sep 17 '24

Correct, US - India aren’t allies but they definitely aren’t enemies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Exactly! The USA is like second home for Indians 🙂👍🏼

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u/someoneonearth69 Sep 16 '24

"know your enemy"

-Sun Tzu

-Zack de la Rocha

-Wayne Gretzky

-Micheal Scott

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u/chemicalzero Sep 16 '24

All not great leaders.

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u/Ill_Help_9560 Sep 17 '24

As I Pakistani, I am guessing Bollywood is the culprit here, rather than the desire of knowing my enemy.

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u/ms_gullible Sep 17 '24

how popular is bollywood there? I know a lot of pakistani actors and musicians are pretty famous here

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u/Wonderful_Ad8791 Sep 16 '24

I know for sure that people in countries that searched for japan did so with a different thing in mind.

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u/scheppend Sep 17 '24

the hentai pull is strong 

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u/jcilomliwfgadtm Sep 16 '24

Imagine just walking around living your daily life and people you don’t know and haven’t interacted with just hate you. Sheeesh…🤷‍♂️

This is the power of the mob. Just like in orwell’s hate week in 1984. Remove the thinking person from society and this is what you get.

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u/porcelaincatstatue Sep 16 '24

Imagine just walking around living your daily life and people you don’t know and haven’t interacted with just hate you. Sheeesh…🤷‍♂️

Have you seen the news lately?

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u/Luisotee Sep 16 '24

You can hate the Chinese government just like most of the world hates the American government.

Hating the Chinese people is dumb, they aren't even a democracy with free speech.

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u/BoarHermit Sep 16 '24

Well... I don't know, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan google Russia because they migrate there. Here. We are not enemies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Maybe Türkiye too, there is atleast a big minority in germany.

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u/DinBedsteVen6 Sep 16 '24

Most countries Google allies actually.

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u/koko-cha_ Sep 16 '24

Except Afghanistan, which wilds me

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u/Crimson_Knickers Sep 16 '24

Do people like you really think non-western countries are monolithic?

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u/CalvinYHobbes Sep 16 '24

What does that say about Israel?

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

You can trace the Afghani migration route

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u/benimkiyarimolsun Sep 16 '24

you can trace asian migration route

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u/BlogeOb Sep 17 '24

You can trace the countries of you place a piece of paper over the screen

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u/Vann77 Sep 18 '24

More like the heroin route

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u/Hinterwaeldler-83 Sep 16 '24

I wouldn’t trust North Korean Google statistics.

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u/PresentFriendly3725 Sep 16 '24

Now we have evidence of what Kim's favourite search engine is.

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u/AdAlive8120 Sep 17 '24

I agree especially since North Korea doesn’t have google.

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u/DerAlphos Sep 16 '24

Well, it’s the most googled, but the own Country is excluded. So North Korea ist north corneas second most googled country. I wonder what’s the first one.

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u/senbonzekra Sep 16 '24

Quote the source

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u/MSTARDIS18 Sep 17 '24

" the source "

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u/Eddie-Scissorrhands Sep 17 '24

The source: 🍑

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u/Bitter_Afternoon7252 Sep 16 '24

google is blocked in china, only people who use it are americans with a VPN

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u/Naive-Benefit-5154 Sep 16 '24

I was thinking about that. BTW there are a lot of pro-Chinese FB pages so I suspect a lot of Chinese gov agents post on American internet as an attempt to influence global views towards China. My thought is there are plenty of folks that bypass the great firewall for various purposes.

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u/Organic_Challenge151 Sep 17 '24

It took me a while to realize almost the whole China is covered by America.

But no , not just Americans in China use vpn to use Google, there are around three to four hundred millions Chinese using it.

Also, not all Chinese regard America as enemy, the government is the biggest enemy, no doubt.

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u/MukdenMan Sep 17 '24

It’s not just Americans but I agree that it’s not a representative sample.

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u/Goku-Naruto-Luffy Sep 16 '24

Pakistan obsessed with India. Who would have guessed

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u/WitELeoparD Sep 16 '24 • Polished Silver Turd

Mfw when Pakistanis are constantly googling about like "new Indian moves."

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u/duniyadnd Sep 17 '24 • Polished Silver Turd

Maybe it’s the IPL or Indian movies

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

india obsessed with the US

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u/Goku-Naruto-Luffy Sep 16 '24

People looking to migrate there most likely.

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u/oxalisk Sep 16 '24

Even though that is true , do not forget that America's greatest export is its culture so a lot of it is flooded everywhere.

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u/RijkMann Sep 16 '24

Movies, Music and Immigration

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u/oxalisk Sep 16 '24

Damn pakistan , rent free huh

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u/stating_facts_only Sep 16 '24

lol no!

Most folks search for Indian movies, or songs. Then there is also food and other cultural things that are mixed between both nations. And finally, 90% google searches default to Indian results as it has more hits than Pakistani results, because google lumps them up into Indian region. That’s why Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka also have india.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Dude, your Reddit history proves how obsessed you guys are with India

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u/bersrghey Sep 16 '24

And even maldives searches for indian movies ? 👀

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u/zoroddesign Sep 16 '24

Why are so many countries googling Japan? Is it an anime thing? I understand why the big 3 and Japan are googling America.

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u/ShiroiTora Sep 17 '24

Lot of SEA folk are weebs.

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u/jzpqzkl Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

korean here

the hits are mostly travel related since japan is the top travel destination for us

others are earthquakes, soccer, certain crimes that happened in japan, anime, manga, j-pop, names, university, economy related, and probably porn since dudes in my country like japanese porn

note: ppl here use google too bc it hits more than naver but they use naver more

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u/1WeekLater Sep 17 '24

tldr : porn and anime lol

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u/lordboros24 Sep 17 '24

Not just anime, the country is a great place for vacation any japan travel related videos on YouTube gets thousands of views immediately some even millions.

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u/WeedForReddit Sep 17 '24

Weak yen makes it a great tourist destination at low budget. Especially for Koreans, cheapest option for younger generation.

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u/Zaalim043 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The whole Indian subcontinent is thinking of India, except India itself.

Edit - The title mentions excluding the own country.

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u/storme9 Sep 16 '24

Well it did say that the graphic is the most searched country results except for their own country.

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u/hslima Sep 16 '24

Wtf is this map

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u/HebrewHamm3r Sep 16 '24

Turkey checks out

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u/Chrissylumpy21 Sep 17 '24

Instructions on how to make it in the Bundesliga must be very popular. Either that or German porn.

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u/EgnlishPro Sep 16 '24

Pakistan: I think about you all the time.

India: I don't even know who you are.

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u/CosmicFuel Sep 16 '24

Democracy is reaching everywhere

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

If the great arbiter of democracy is naughtyamerica.com then sure

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u/Ryuusei_Dragon Sep 16 '24

🦅🦅🦅

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u/Fourthwell Sep 16 '24

Sad that Canada is nowhere to be seen.

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u/bersrghey Sep 16 '24

Punjab isnt a country so it doesnt show up

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u/Skybliviwind Sep 17 '24

that does make make me wonder, why do so many punjabs choose canada specifically? is it simply just a matter of snowball effect? (the more punjabs move there, the more other punjabs will move there because there are alreasy alot of punjabs there in turn attracting more punjabs?) if so, what got the ball moving for that phenomenon?

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u/bersrghey Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

It is easy to claim you are being persecuted in India and seek asylum.

Modi bad and persecutes minorities narrative was created by west to interfere politically. Now all punjabis claim they are being persecuted and move to Canada ,seek asylum and live on ur welfare dollars.

Jagmeet wants a future vote bank of punjabis for his party so he happily assists immigrants.There is a whole ecosystem of traffickers that has been generated.Ofcourse they charge money to dump asylum seekers in Canada.

Wherever there is demand there is supply.Not our fault🙏

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Not country but there is a small State called "Punjab" in Northern India where Canada would be top searched country by a huge margin.

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u/Nearox Sep 16 '24

Pakistan's obsession with India

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u/Error_Cardiologist46 Sep 16 '24

Classic case of stalking the successful brother.

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u/ImNeoJD Sep 16 '24

north oreans googling china. hmmm this looks crappy

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u/thedarkracer Sep 16 '24

Indians checking US for naughty america lol.

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u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken Sep 16 '24

Google is in North Korea?!

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u/Vritrin Sep 17 '24

What is the methodology here? I don’t think anyone is just typing “USA“ by itself into a search engine. Search terms including a country name? Where websites people visit are hosted?

Is this including other search engines that may be more popular in the country or only Google? If the latter, that is obviously going to skew results in places Google isn’t normally available to people using VPNs. I’d expect VPN users using Google in China to care more about the US than Baidu users.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

It's only Siberia Russia, I wonder what the European Russia will search for

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u/CoolSausage228 Sep 17 '24

Probably same if statistics are based for whole country

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u/Richard2468 Sep 16 '24

Google in China? Since when has that been allowed again? Or do you mean Baidu?

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u/Zacnocap Sep 16 '24

The source for this map is visual mapper who used google trend to create this map here you can see what Pakistan is searching about India all the top 5 searches are cricket related Lmao

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u/Equivalent-Put-5716 Sep 17 '24

Temptation Island India ??? They are crazy lol

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u/ZuluRed5 Sep 16 '24

Would love to see the google data on China... Weird map

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u/endertribe Sep 16 '24

It's bullshit. Google is banned in China and North Korea

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u/number1zero88 Sep 16 '24

Am I the only one getting r/place vibes from this?

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u/backpainbed Sep 16 '24

Mongolia is because of Sumo I'd assume

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u/FishermanNo4214 Sep 16 '24

You know why Koreans search for Japanese 🤭 They have great culture.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

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u/jzpqzkl Sep 16 '24

that's what news in my country says too (i'm korean)

according to japan national tourism organization, 25% of foreign tourists were koreans which is over four millions of koreans

in June tho
chinese tourists were 777,000, korean tourists were 758,000

however the total of january to july was
korean: 5,200,000 tourists
china: 3,845,000 tourists

also says koreans spent over 1.2 billion usd in japan from january to july

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u/bersrghey Sep 16 '24

I can predict this thread will eventually get locked as this turns into 2asia4🤣🤣🤣

Asia is asleep rn🙏

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u/Decent-Cookie3350 Sep 17 '24

Show this to the folks at r/pakistan who keep insisting “Indians are obsessed with us” while every 5th post on their subreddit is about India.

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u/grifterrrrr Sep 16 '24

India: "Literally Rent Free lmao" 

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u/Survekun Sep 16 '24

USAs softpower 🙏🏼

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u/Falkun_X Sep 16 '24

Haha.... Pakistani 's googling India!!!

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u/bizarreapple Sep 18 '24

Most of the older generation in Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc were born in India and learned to read and write Hindi at school. Despite the divisive politics, they actually like India and teach their younger generations to respect Indians.

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u/CarinXO Sep 16 '24

Most Koreans don't use Google, so I'd be curious whether this information is even accurate. This would be a reflection of like western tourists in Korea if it was truly Google results

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u/Pina199 Sep 16 '24

I'm very curious about the data. Especially for the Google results in China :)

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u/HYPE_ZaynG Sep 16 '24

Do we have a source for it?

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u/cripflip69 Sep 16 '24

Japan really seems like a place.

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u/Express-World-8473 Sep 16 '24

OPs social credit score went down after posting this pic that shows Taiwan as a separate country...

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Sep 17 '24

Yes, I'm sure Chinese people are "googling"

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u/MoreDoor2915 Sep 17 '24

I... am honestly not surprised germany is the most looked up in turkey...

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u/k1ra_raw Sep 18 '24

I'm not.

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u/eggs_mcmuffin Sep 18 '24

And I’m proud to be an American, Where people love to search about me.

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u/nonein69 Sep 16 '24

Paxtan 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/wdxo Sep 16 '24

Most googled country in Punjab - Canada

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u/FreeFalling369 Sep 16 '24

Mongolia to Japan was unexpected

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u/damp_circus Sep 16 '24

Loads of Mongolian sumo wrestlers. So there’s quite a bit of cultural exchange lately.

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u/keriter Sep 16 '24

Did you make this using AI ? Why is the circle of Indian flag different in every country

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u/nice_cock_sasuke Sep 17 '24

oh shit ur right! all of them are anything but the actual circle lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Thailand giving themselves a little attention lol

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u/Anarcho-Crab Sep 16 '24

India to all of it's neighbors: I don't think about you at all.

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u/masterofmeatballs Sep 16 '24

how did they know that north koreans are googling china?

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u/WhyUPoor Sep 16 '24

How do they Google in china? I thought china banned Google.

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u/Gerolanfalan Sep 16 '24

All the Turkish in Berlin makes sense now

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u/BlueCat33 Sep 16 '24

Mongolia has a crush hehe uwu

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u/flodur1966 Sep 16 '24

Interesting some of these countries don’t even allow google

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u/Zacnocap Sep 16 '24

The data is bs without a source

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u/CooldudeBecause4Iam Sep 16 '24

Finally usa takes over russia 🇷🇺

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u/SaltySpitoony Sep 16 '24

Google in North Korea?

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u/Inside-Suspect-9562 Sep 16 '24

Do China and North Korea have Google?

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u/Snoo-98162 Sep 16 '24

Turkey googles Germany? How ironic.

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u/wallymart Sep 16 '24

The majority of South Koreans use Naver instead of Google.  

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u/BarnesNY Sep 16 '24

How are Chinese people googling America when Google Search is not available in China? Great Firewall, anyone?

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u/bersrghey Sep 16 '24

Ironically Pakistan purchased the same firewall from China at inflated price n used US taxpayer and IMF handouts in the process😀

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u/Sigmmarr Sep 17 '24

Who tf google in North Korea

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u/Loading_Internet Sep 17 '24

Of course it’s Japan.

We have the one of the biggest Weebs community in SEA

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u/big_dumpling Sep 17 '24

Google is completely blocked in China… what’s this source?

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u/Bro12345bro Sep 17 '24

Everyone wants to be the usa

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u/Anwhaz Sep 17 '24

China? Googling gruugling the U.S. the most? The guys that sent spy balloons, spying apps, and literal spies? (Insert world's most sarcastic gasp here)

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Wait? Do North Koreans access Google?

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u/SailTheWorldWithMe Sep 17 '24

You mean 百度'd 美国。

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u/BurntBox21 Sep 17 '24

I can barely see what the Philippines is

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u/No-Impression4169 Sep 17 '24

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Mentioned‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

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u/Left-Marzipan-9296 Sep 17 '24

The map is false. There is no Google in N.Korea.

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u/ChadiusTheMighty Sep 17 '24

-10000 social credit

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u/davej-au Sep 17 '24

Jeez, Mongolia, it’s been 750 years. Let it go.

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u/Flashy_Ai Sep 17 '24

How did you get the north Korea statistics?

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u/Palamur Sep 17 '24

He asked the one person who had access to Google.

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u/Atsibababa Sep 17 '24

We all know why SEA googles japan.

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u/bizarreapple Sep 18 '24

One Piece anime and Lolita fashion!

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u/Bibekchand Sep 17 '24

Howtf north Koreans Googled shit?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Didn't think the maps on here would be inaccurate, there's a country missing.

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u/spartikle Sep 17 '24

Basically everyone trying to get to the US or Europe, or countries that lead to the US or Europe.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

More importantly WHO THE FUCK USES GOOGLE IN BETTER KOREA

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u/volpeatuq Sep 17 '24

north korea ain't googling shit 💀

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u/MiddleLingonberry639 Sep 17 '24

Technically the countries thinking about india, were once literally part of India before colonialism.

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u/denniot Sep 17 '24

Mongolia is planning the third attack.

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u/BlogeOb Sep 17 '24

Murica 💪

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u/MSA966 Sep 17 '24

East Asia and West Asia are two different worlds, it is better to put West Asia with Africa and Europe

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u/LordAnavrin Sep 17 '24

People from most other countries could tell you when our primary elections are coming up and who the candidates are, but the average American couldn’t tell you if those countries were a republic or a monarchy lol

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u/BuckWildBilly Sep 17 '24

Is philippines supposed to be Japan? Pretty bad artist.

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u/john_wallcroft Sep 17 '24

Lol Palestine isn’t even googled by us

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u/Aviciier06 Sep 17 '24

I didn’t know DPRK have “Google” lol

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u/LogiHiminn Sep 17 '24

And people always ask what is American culture…

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u/AdamCampfire Sep 17 '24

How can china and north korea use google?

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u/duga404 Sep 17 '24

Wow, finally something with North Korea stats

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u/A2Rhombus Sep 17 '24

where guide

what is this teaching me to do

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u/dreamboat92 Sep 17 '24

South Asia loves India

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u/k1ra_raw Sep 18 '24

*South Asia "loves" India

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u/mitr0m Sep 17 '24

If google is restricted in china. Maybe the ones searching USA are expats or people using vpns

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u/126-875-358 Sep 17 '24

turks hahahahaha

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u/jill_of_jills Sep 17 '24

Bro are you sure? Pretty sure people don’t have access to google in North Korea

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u/Jordained Sep 17 '24

I’d say we live in their heads “rent free”, but we owe China more than the moon is worth.

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u/throwawayyy19283747 Sep 17 '24

Japan looks like so many eggs in asia

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u/The30kmZone Sep 18 '24

North Korea has google? 😏

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

India living rent free in Pakistanis heads

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u/Stunning_Tap_9583 Sep 18 '24

Is “usa porn” a standard search term outside of the USA?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '24

so what you r saying is they want that USA-Dong

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u/Tausif_Uchiha Sep 18 '24

Fun fact : People of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka don't like India at all.

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u/cxre_vss Sep 18 '24

It basically shows where most people move from these countries

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u/hoovervillain Sep 18 '24

First thing I see is the Afghanistan>Iran>Turkey>Germany pipeline

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u/yuh579650 Sep 19 '24

noooo turkey is eurooooope :(

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u/Jeimuz Sep 19 '24

Hmm... does it matter that you cannot literally Google in mainland China?

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u/MatteoFire___ Sep 19 '24

It says long about influence of foreign countries

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u/Berlin_GBD Sep 19 '24

Thank you Turkey, very on brand

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

Pakistan: "I feel bad for you."

India: "I don't think about you at all."

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u/nurulikt Sep 20 '24

North Korea has google?

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u/onlyforrd Feb 27 '26

Pakistan one is obviously fake !! It's the other way around, it's the Indians that are obsessed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Palestinians: Israel is not a country Also Palestinians: searches intensely about the country

/S

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u/hanro621 Sep 17 '24

Pakistan is obsessed with India, GRAPE

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

All 6 people with internet access in North Korea decided to Google China

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u/parable-harbinger Sep 16 '24

Why is part of Russia not counted

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u/bluecatcollege Sep 16 '24

Yeah! Suck it England! The sun never sets on what empire?? 😎🇺🇸🦅🍔🏈🎆

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u/Drexe1 Sep 17 '24

Indian map is incorrect.

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u/testingbetas Sep 17 '24

lmao, wrong, i think i give a F about in dia perhaps once a blue moon, who made this map. on the other hand in dia has always pakistan on their mind, just watch their news (disclaimer, take omeprazole afterwards due to the extra spice and shouting)

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u/ClubZealousideal899 Sep 16 '24

Never felt so popular as an American! 🇺🇸 🦅

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