Can you name the top countries with the most stadiums with 40,000 Capacity or more?

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Countries with the Most Stadiums Quiz

by jonesjeffum

Created Dec 20, 2009 in Geography
Featured Jan 4, 2012
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	Thehiddenllama:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:12 GMT	6 points
	Or India...

	Noname219:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:13 GMT	-1 points
	China should be on the list. It has 149 stadiums based on the source given. Somebody should upload the list.

	JamesSnell:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:19 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz.

	tom951:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:27 GMT	9 points
	Switzerland???!!!!! never would have guessed it

	Supercamel:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:29 GMT	11 points
	Strange that Finland ranks so high. If football related (i can only assume) it's strange that Turkey, Poland and Russia, all of which probably have a greater spectator base, rank lower.

	macrochirus:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:31 GMT	4 points
	The list actually has all stadiums with capacity greater than 3,000 - not 30,000. Also, I noticed that many facilities are double-counted. The Air Canada Centre in Toronto is listed three times because three different professional teams use the facility.

	MrMN:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:33 GMT	21 points
	One stadium for every 100 sq miles in Switzerland. That must be where the extra money goes when you don't have to worry about wars.

	Beatlezfann:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:39 GMT	9 points
	I wonder if they have any chess-playing stadiums in Russia...

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	demonstah:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 18:51 GMT	4 points
	@Supercamel - it's related to the data available. The smallest stadiums listed for Finland have capacities of 1000 (36 of them). The smallest stadiums listed for Russia have capacities of 5,000. (I'd bet there are quite a few Russian stadiums with smaller capacities than 5,000.) When the smaller stadiums are included, the data become skewed.

	Hejman:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 19:05 GMT	7 points
	The stadium data has been updated- the numbers had changed from when jonesjeffum first put the quiz together in late 2009. This resulted in one country going off the list and one coming on, thus the earlier comments about China. @Mirrorboy- if you look at the archived comments, you'll see that the OED says that both 'stadia' and 'stadiums' are correct. @demonstah- I agree. There's no definition on the site at all for what they accept and the bottom end cutoffs vary depending on the country. There are stadiums listed in the UK that are smaller than some high school football fields in the US.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT	13 points
	186 stadiums here in Finland? Hardly. Unless you count every backyard with a basketball hoop.

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	Triffid:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 19:32 GMT	6 points
	Who's the genius who came up with the front page caption: "These are also the countries most likely to host a U2 concert". But Ireland isn't here. Duh.

	JaguarGator9:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 19:32 GMT	4 points
	Surprised that after the World Cup that South Africa isn't on this list. Great quiz.

	me3_4ever:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 19:38 GMT	24 points
	I tried Sweden, Denmark and Norway... I didn't try Finland...

	Bobman1:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 20:13 GMT	1 point
	It was a fun exercise: Nation with relatively large population, generally robust/industrialized economy, soccer fans... That'll get you about 75% right there. Then some variations on the theme gets you the rest of the way. Personally, I think the total number of countries should be increased until K-stan qualifies. Maybe Andorra or Vatican, too....;-)

	WyattsTorch:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 20:18 GMT	8 points
	No Vatican City?

	howard38:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 20:32 GMT	3 points
	Mirrorboy, I'm not sure what your post means but "stadiums" is an acceptable plural for "stadium" and is more common in modern usage than "stadia".

	ClintT13:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 20:56 GMT	3 points
	The data is a bit suspect. Numerous stadiums are counted more than once, as they have a separate listing for each team that uses the facility. In the U.S., this means some stadiums are counted 4-5 times. For example, an arena in a city where an NBA, NHL, and college teams all use the same facility.

	Hejman:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 20:58 GMT	2 points
	@ClintT13- The stadiums are listed once for each tenant but only counted one time, thus Kyrgyzstan has only six stadia even though it has more listings than that.

	highvolt:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 21:30 GMT	4 points
	I always forget Canada

	Josh:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 21:45 GMT	1 point
	Omg, the only one I missed is my own country xD I never thought Finland would be on that list! Did try Sweden and Denmark :D

	jimmydoom:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 21:54 GMT	3 points
	ugh, it really stings when you guess sweden, norway, and denmark and then give up on scandinavian countries...

	Disclaimer:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 21:59 GMT	13 points
	I hate to dog on the quiz here, but this quiz is completely misrepresenting the data set. The source never claims to be a complete list of all stadiums. They list what they've had the time and information to include. For some countries they have more and for some less, but it's got nothing to do with the total number of stadiums that the country has. It's just that in some countries they include a bunch of small stadiums and in some they don't. For example, the source never claims that there are only 167 stadiums in Russia. That's just all of the stadiums that they have in their database. But unless you believe that literally every stadium in Russia is over 5,000 we can be sure they have a lot more. It's quizzes like this that make me think Sporcle has gotten too big. Just because there is a list of something on the internet doesn't make is suitable to be a published quiz.