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There are about 200-250 countries. I doubt most of us could name 1 fact about half of them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
I repeat: Canada is quite a big one, it has a developed economy and produces solid cultural products.
Actually, when I taught at a high school in Mississauga, I could name students who had each immigrated from one of over 140 countries. Does that count?
Sure if you count the departure of 1 person as a fact about a place.
I'm also skeptical unless you are counting disputed territories by every name they've ever gone by. Europe and Asia account for 80% of Mississauga population (and it was less diverse in the past). they've got 100 countries between them assuming you had the most possible representation, which is doubtful. Then you still need 40 more countries from very uncommon backgrounds.
I am saying that each of these students would give perspective based on where they came from. We had a map of the world,with flags on each country where a student was from. It was essentially a high school that was in a part of Mississauga that had a population predominantly of new immigrants. It was a particularly transient population. You know, that OTHER 20%. Given the population of Mississauga, that is still a very large number. Middle East, Africa, South America, they were from all over.