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

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Foreign-Born Population: Mexico Quiz

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Created Dec 27, 2009 in Geography
Featured Dec 27, 2009
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	American:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	64 points
	The colored columns made my day!

	Gumpster:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	-2 points
	i found canada to be the most surprising on this list, i dont know why.

	BagelPopper:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	12 points
	yeah haha, very clever color scheme.

	Mere443:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	18 points
	got south korea, but missed canada. Thats just sad.

	Eliot:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	22 points
	Prevalent. Not "prevelant", PREVALENT. Like, they "prevail" in Mexico over other foreign-borns.

	BamaRainbow:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:11 GMT	19 points
	Of course. The only country I didn't get was the single Central American country I didn't try.

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	conradmcmasters:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 06:59 GMT	1 point
	Same boat as BamaRainbow.

	mattk77:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 07:09 GMT	24 points
	You work your mind through the Americas and there is always one country you inexplicaby miss, Venezuela eluded me.

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	nhrafan:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 07:50 GMT	50 points
	um, guys, its not where mexicans are living now. its the people who are currently living in mexico, but were born in a different country. i can't imagine there are many mexicans in germany, but apparently there are a fair few germans in mexico

MRD:

Dec 27th, 2009 at 09:02 GMT

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Why does this misinterpretation always happen in all of these quizzes?

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	Duke_of_Prunes:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 11:05 GMT	16 points
	I wasn't surprised where they all came from as much as how few there actually are.

	shel99:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 12:15 GMT	2 points
	Interesting! Never would have thought there were so many Asians moving to Mexico.

	epicfatality18:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 12:34 GMT	3 points
	forgot italy why would you move to mexico when living in italy

Rank	Country	Population
12		3,848
13		3,749
14		3,722
15		2,936
16		2,823
17		2,688
18		2,522
19		2,320
20		2,175
21		2,100
22		2,001

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	SowCrates:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	2 points
	~450,000 out of 108 million... it seems like a fairly low ratio, but it's actually higher than Brazil's was in 2005 (641,000 out of 186,000), which kind of surprises me.

	ChinaWhite:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT	2 points
	South Korea surprised me..... could have guessed for another 5 minutes and probably wouldnt have gotten it

	CSniker:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:29 GMT	5 points
	Spelling errors in titles are very annoying, especially if they've apparently lasted this long as to still exist on a published game that's been posted for at least 13 hours. (Prevalent)

	BillyMumphrey:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 17:31 GMT	46 points
	Those Italian-Mexicans would be the best cooks ever.

	RoloTomasi:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT	21 points
	Samsung has a huge factory in Tijuana. I imagine a large number of Korean nationals living in Mexico are employed by either Samsung, LG or one of the Korean oil and gas companies investing in Mexico. 2100 people is not a lot when you consider there are over 8000 Koreans living here in Austin, Texas, a city of barely one million people.

	RoloTomasi:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	10 points
	@Havok3595: There aren't many Italians who have moved to Mexico, where they don't speak the language, for a better life. Most of the non Spanish speaking residents of Mexico are short stay contract workers with multinational corporations or work for embassies or do charity/religious work. The rest are mostly ex-pat retirees.

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	ted:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT	15 points
	I'm surprised Belize didn't make it (even though they are an English-speaking country).

	kagomeshuko:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 23:08 GMT	-1 points
	Good quiz. I'm surprised I got as many as I did!

	Sinistercharlo:	Dec 27th, 2009 at 23:47 GMT	4 points
	Nice concept, although eventually I just started guessing the biggest countries I could think of. That strategy worked out pretty well. :D

	hannnnaa:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	3 points
	Woot I really didn't expect to get them all on this quiz, but I randomly typed South Korea with 12 seconds left!

	sean2088:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 00:30 GMT	2 points
	interesting quiz, some countries here that i didn't expect to see. great colour scheme too!

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	nymous:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT	-4 points
	What's wrong with my joke (5th up from this)? Why is it being voted down? Lighten up people :)

	mwillithegenius:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 21:08 GMT	3 points
	I wandered into this knowing nothing at all, yet I perfected it based on geography