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Can you name the most prevalent countries of origin of foreign-born residents of Australia?

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger
Source: Australian Census of Population & Housing 2001
* - Special Administrative Region

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Rank	Country	Population
1		1,036,245
2		355,765
3		218,718
4		154,831
5		142,780
6		116,431
7		108,220
8		103,942
9		95,452
10		83,324
11		79,425
12		78,858

Rank	Country	Population
13		71,349
14*		67,122
15		58,110
16		55,365
17		53,694
18		53,461
19		51,909
20		50,235
21		47,158
22		46,998
23		44,261
24		43,527

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	minor9th:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	-2 points
	Wow! Massive emigration from UK making up a massive part of Oz's population...

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	SanityLapse:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 09:15 GMT	20 points
	Quite an interesting mix of people. The Canadians don't flock there, but the Macedonians sure do.

	schulace:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 09:23 GMT	14 points
	not a bad quiz, good to see us Aussies getting some recognition on sporcle... even though I'm sure I've met more than 350,000 Kiwis..

	smarty:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 09:26 GMT	2 points
	interesting about the 2nd least guessed, i'm sure most australians would get that one!

	oldkent:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 09:34 GMT	6 points
	11% of New Zealanders move to Australia? Arg!

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	The_Goat:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 10:41 GMT	-1 points
	Anthony Bourdain's show helped me with Lebanon.

	roblynch:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 10:46 GMT	5 points
	Malta? Wow, would never have got that. Any historical reasoning behind that?

	FozzieBear:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:10 GMT	1 point
	The Vietnamese are well travelled - they always feature in the most foreign-born residents quizes.

	LaStic:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:26 GMT	1 point
	That's more than 10% of the current maltese polulation...

	Rhys:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:39 GMT	5 points
	Although I'm still angry about that quiz existing I'll answer the above questions. Roblynch - Yes there is. After World War 2 when they were almost completely destroyed, they migrated everywhere around the world. They like their Italian and other such Mediterranean cousins came to Australia. I live two houses down from an old Maltese man. FozzieBear - Nguyen is the second most prevalent name in the phone book after Smith.

	some_guy:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:57 GMT	-4 points
	Holy, I knew the dutch half-found Australia, but that so many people settled there. Whoa!

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	davidr:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 13:34 GMT	-1 points
	@minor9th: Many people left the UK for Australia in the years after World War II. Much of the UK was in very bad shape (rationing didn't end until mid-1954, for example) and Australia was actively encouraging immigration from here. A classic carrot and stick situation. :-)

	kingstony:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 13:37 GMT	-3 points
	Didn't we send our criminals there to?

	Uhlan:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 14:08 GMT	2 points
	So there are 116,431 potential Peter Andres there? Argh.

	smarty:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 14:31 GMT	-1 points
	trust me, there are more than 116431 greeks in australia. hahaha. this is just those who were born in greece. also, LOL at the quiz description on the front page.

	Jisco:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 14:41 GMT	0 points
	yeah there is about 4 times as many Greeks as that

	Tapestry:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 14:55 GMT	2 points
	The Vietnamese love their own country but communism isn't exactly freedom, and free it aint, that is why their people are so 'well traveled' they are trying to get away from opression.

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	caramba:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 16:52 GMT	1 point
	I don't know why SexualCamel was shouted down so much - if you go to Whistler, every 2nd person you meet is an Aussie. It's awesome (or aussome)!

	caramba:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 16:59 GMT	5 points
	@Jisco, @Rhys Quiz duplication is going to be a fact of Sporcle life. There are just so many being created the editors can't see them all. I am sure the editors themselves have a backlog of their own quizzes made a long time ago and I would guess this one has probably been in the queue for a while. This will probably apply to categories like Foreign Born Populations, Top 20 cities by state, A, B, C etc quiz and others the editors have been contributing.

	Booger:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 17:28 GMT	2 points
	@ Rhys and caramba: Caramba is correct. I made this quiz (like the rest of my foreign born population quizzes) months ago. It's been in my queue of submitted games, which regular users can't access or search.

	icing:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	0 points
	I really like these population quizzes, they're so interesting. I thought that maybe there would be a lot of Japanese people in Australia, though ...

	yippeeyappee:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 17:43 GMT	7 points
	@ef232623 At the time the source was published, Serbia and Montenegro was still a single country, so the data for those two peoples would have been grouped together.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 17:50 GMT	2 points
	I would have been one of those Brits in 2001! Australia is a paradise. Never forget that Aussies! Sydney is my favourite place on earth, shame it takes bloody ages to get there otherwise i'd attempt to go every month.

	ig1234:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 17:51 GMT	2 points
	@ ef232623 This is true but it's been a very short space of time so most of the immigration would have come from a unified Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro...

	ZeZapatiste:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	1 point
	I'm one of the few who found Malta. And thanks to "Life is a miracle", I have found all the Balkans countries. Thank you mister Kusturica !

	FliryVorru:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 21:09 GMT	2 points
	I'd like to give a shout out to the country of Malta. Who knew there were more of those guys down under? I know I didn't. GREAT quiz. I love these foreign-born population quizzes.

	Jaspers:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 22:09 GMT	2 points
	355,765 Kiwis turned Aussie. It makes me wonder about the foreign born population of New Zealand.

	AussieJono:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 22:16 GMT	2 points
	In th 1950s many Southern Europeans moved to Australia after what had happened to their countries during the war. However, many of these people are now old an immigration from Greece, Italy etc has slowed down massively. Remake this quiz after the next census and you'll probably see places such as Japan and South Korea moving up the list. The biggest surprise for me was the lack of Papuans, since they are our closest neighbours.

	hazzaar90:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	0 points
	The census is conducted in Australia every five years. There was one in 2006. Why not use data from that? Still, interesting results. Would never have guessed the large number of Indonesian migrants. Maltese make up nearly all of the cane farmers in my region of north Queensland.

	jaspa:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 03:13 GMT	6 points
	Papua New Guinea, I'm very disappointed in you for not making this quiz.

	powercord:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	1 point
	The results would have changed massively since 2001 I think. I find it very hard to believe China and Lebanon aren't challenging the Kiwis for #2 on that list. I think Sudan would definately be in the top 10 now as well.

	Jisco:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 04:33 GMT	0 points
	if anyone wants the 2006 one try this http://www.sporcle.com/games/Jisco/Aus_foreign

	Carlos:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	2 points
	Sudan and Zimbabwe would definately be making a run for the list now. @GeordieGuitarist: It sure is paradise, but give me Melbourne or Brisbane over Sydney any day of the week.

	bean:	Nov 2nd, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	1 point
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