This is a list of the most popular countries in the world wide web according to Google.
I made a Perl script to do this. You can obtain really interesting results with it.
How it works?
First I write or download a keyword list, for example this, a list with the names of all the countries in the world.
Then I run the script with some parameters to set how I want the Google results, the database, the table, google search parameters, etc…
The script get the Google results, parses the Google search results and save the data that I want to a MySql database, in this case the keyword and the keyword popularity in Google.
Then… I wrote this article.
Obviously this isn’t the exact measure of popularity of the countries in internet because some of them can have popularity from another sources, for example, the country named Jordan and the basketball player with the same surname. Also there are a lot of another factors who have influence over the popularity of any keyword.
You can use the online version of this tool to get the popularity of any keyword at: Keyword popularity tool
Here are the results:
| Country | Popularity |
|---|---|
| France | 1090000000 |
| USA | 754000000 |
| China | 727000000 |
| Japan | 651000000 |
| Canada | 633000000 |
| Germany | 593000000 |
| Mexico | 567000000 |
| Australia | 411000000 |
| United Kingdom | 399000000 |
| Spain | 394000000 |
| Argentina | 391000000 |
| Italy | 389000000 |
| India | 370000000 |
| United States of America | 363000000 |
| Portugal | 360000000 |
| Ireland | 347000000 |
| South Georgia | 312000000 |
| Austria | 303000000 |
| Korea, South | 298000000 |
| Korea | 292000000 |
| Venezuela | 288000000 |
| Taiwan | 284000000 |
| Chile | 280000000 |
| South Africa | 272000000 |
| Brazil | 263000000 |
| Indonesia | 261000000 |
| Hong Kong | 260000000 |
| Georgia | 258000000 |
| Israel | 255000000 |
| Vietnam | 245000000 |
| Singapore | 235000000 |
| Jersey | 228000000 |
| Peru | 227000000 |
| Colombia | 226000000 |
| Thailand | 225000000 |
| Netherlands | 219000000 |
| Poland | 214000000 |
| Ecuador | 206000000 |
| Sweden | 205000000 |
| Russia | 204000000 |
| Jordan | 204000000 |
| Uruguay | 203000000 |
| Romania | 202000000 |
| Iraq | 202000000 |
| Malaysia | 200000000 |
| Ukraine | 197000000 |
| Iran | 192000000 |
| Turkey | 190000000 |
| Panama | 186000000 |
| Greece | 185000000 |
| Czech Republic | 184000000 |
| Belgium | 182000000 |
| Switzerland | 182000000 |
| Bulgaria | 176000000 |
| Finland | 171000000 |
| Costa Rica | 170000000 |
| Cuba | 170000000 |
| Egypt | 169000000 |
| Philippines | 168000000 |
| Malta | 168000000 |
| Hungary | 168000000 |
| Denmark | 167000000 |
| Pakistan | 166000000 |
| New Zealand | 166000000 |
| Saudia Arabia | 163000000 |
| Luxembourg | 163000000 |
| Guatemala | 163000000 |
| Korea, North | 162000000 |
| Paraguay | 159000000 |
| Estonia | 158000000 |
| Monaco | 156000000 |
| Kuwait | 155000000 |
| Mali | 154000000 |
| Reunion | 153000000 |
| Norway | 152000000 |
| Puerto Rico | 151000000 |
| Bolivia | 150000000 |
| Honduras | 150000000 |
| Nicaragua | 148000000 |
| Guadeloupe | 147000000 |
| Liechtenstein | 143000000 |
| Martinique | 142000000 |
| Afghanistan | 139000000 |
| Kenya | 139000000 |
| Nepal | 137000000 |
| Senegal | 137000000 |
| Latvia | 136000000 |
| Andorra | 133000000 |
| Oman | 132000000 |
| Nigeria | 129000000 |
| Slovakia | 129000000 |
| Lithuania | 129000000 |
| Bahamas | 128000000 |
| Bangladesh | 126000000 |
| El Salvador | 123000000 |
| Cyprus | 120000000 |
| Barbados | 119000000 |
| Palau | 119000000 |
| Jamaica | 118000000 |
| Ghana | 118000000 |
| Croatia | 118000000 |
| Sri Lanka | 118000000 |
| Guinea | 117000000 |
| Slovenia | 117000000 |
| Gibraltar | 117000000 |
| Samoa | 116000000 |
| Belize | 115000000 |
| Guam | 115000000 |
| Zimbabwe | 115000000 |
| Togo | 114000000 |
| Angola | 114000000 |
| Qatar | 113000000 |
| Laos | 112000000 |
| Bermuda | 111000000 |
| Guyana | 111000000 |
| Lebanon | 109000000 |
| Burundi | 108000000 |
| Niger | 108000000 |
| Aruba | 108000000 |
| Bosnia | 107000000 |
| Botswana | 106000000 |
| Montserrat | 106000000 |
| Malawi | 105000000 |
| Mauritius | 105000000 |
| Tanzania | 104000000 |
| Syria | 104000000 |
| Lesotho | 103000000 |
| Kazakhstan | 103000000 |
| Uganda | 103000000 |
| Sudan | 102000000 |
| Vanuatu | 102000000 |
| Grenada | 102000000 |
| Namibia | 102000000 |
| Fiji | 101000000 |
| Bahrain | 101000000 |
| Iceland | 101000000 |
| Macedonia | 101000000 |
| Liberia | 101000000 |
| Haiti | 99700000 |
| Madagascar | 99600000 |
| Belarus | 99200000 |
| Turkmenistan | 98500000 |
| Dominica | 98100000 |
| Anguilla | 96700000 |
| Bhutan | 96300000 |
| Chad | 96300000 |
| Micronesia | 96200000 |
| Tonga | 96200000 |
| Turks | 96100000 |
| Suriname | 96000000 |
| United Arab Emirates | 95900000 |
| Albania | 95500000 |
| Yemen | 95400000 |
| Congo | 94900000 |
| Gambia | 94900000 |
| Mongolia | 94500000 |
| Wallis | 94200000 |
| Rwanda | 93400000 |
| Kiribati | 93400000 |
| Moldova | 93400000 |
| Uzbekistan | 93300000 |
| Tuvalu | 93100000 |
| Benin | 92700000 |
| Nauru | 92400000 |
| Gabon | 92300000 |
| Mozambique | 92100000 |
| Seychelles | 91800000 |
| Armenia | 91500000 |
| Morocco | 91300000 |
| Zambia | 90800000 |
| Somalia | 90300000 |
| Cambodia | 89100000 |
| Tunisia | 88500000 |
| Herzegovina | 87100000 |
| Mayotte | 86900000 |
| Eritrea | 86700000 |
| Djibouti | 86000000 |
| Swaziland | 85700000 |
| Azerbaijan | 85600000 |
| Maldives | 84500000 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 80900000 |
| Niue | 80700000 |
| Central African Republic | 80600000 |
| Tajikistan | 80000000 |
| Macau | 79800000 |
| Algeria | 79100000 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 76600000 |
| Mauritania | 76600000 |
| Burkina Faso | 76300000 |
| Cameroon | 74800000 |
| Greenland | 71200000 |
| Malvinas | 71100000 |
| Ethiopia | 71000000 |
| Sierra Leone | 70400000 |
| Comoros | 70000000 |
| Libya | 69600000 |
| Congo, Republic of | 68300000 |
| San Marino | 66800000 |
| Myanmar | 66300000 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 64400000 |
| Montenegro | 64000000 |
| Serbia | 63800000 |
| Dominican Republic | 63300000 |
| Norfolk Island | 61700000 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 59400000 |
| Christmas Island | 57600000 |
| Marshall Islands | 56400000 |
| Cook Islands | 55700000 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 55100000 |
| Papua New Guinea | 54600000 |
| American Samoa | 53300000 |
| Cayman Islands | 53200000 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 53200000 |
| Cape Verde | 53000000 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 51400000 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 51200000 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 50200000 |
| Solomon Islands | 49100000 |
| Cote d’Ivoire | 48400000 |
| Saint Lucia | 46100000 |
| New Caledonia | 45700000 |
| British Virgin Islands | 45000000 |
| Yugoslavia | 44700000 |
| Falkland Islands | 42200000 |
| Antarctica | 41500000 |
| Caicos Islands | 40000000 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 39200000 |
| Tokelau | 36100000 |
| French Polynesia | 35200000 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 33200000 |
| Saint Helena | 32600000 |
| Western Sahara | 31400000 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 30900000 |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of | 29600000 |
| Svalbard | 29500000 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 29100000 |
| French Guiana | 28900000 |
| EEUU | 25100000 |
| USSR | 24000000 |
| Wallis and Futuna Islands | 21400000 |
| Futuna Islands | 19200000 |
| Faroe Islands | 19100000 |
| Guernsey | 18300000 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 13400000 |
| French Southern Territories | 13200000 |
| Pitcairn Island | 12700000 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 12000000 |
| Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 5320000 |
| Isle of Man | 4730000 |
| Åland | 4630000 |
| Heard and McDonald Islands | 3290000 |
| British Indian Ocean Territory | 3110000 |
| Bouvet Island | 2840000 |
| Vatican City State (Holy See) | 2660000 |
| Jan Mayen Islands | 2590000 |
| South Sandwich Islands | 2550000 |
| South Georgia South Sandwich Islands | 2480000 |
| Cocos (Keeling) Island | 2480000 |
| Timor-Leste | 2470000 |
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands | 2450000 |
| Ascension Island | 2390000 |
| US Minor Outlying Islands | 2360000 |
| Palestinian Territory, Occupied | 2110000 |
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article nnial 2007 - salvatore iaconesi - del.icio.us poetry, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
France is only called France. However the UK can also be Great Britain, Britain, England etc. The Netherlands can also be called Holland. USA also America. Very clever tool though however the list doesn’t show true accuracy.
You are absolutely right Tron.
This are just interesting numbers but doesn’t reflect an accurate real popularity of each country in the web. This will take more than 30 minutes of programming and running a script.