Can you name the countries that are the source of the greatest number of refugees (under UNHCR mandate)?

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Source: Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations, UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database, 2010
Total refugees and people in refugee-like situations, by country of origin in 2010, according to UNHCR statistics. *Excludes Palestinian refugees under the province of UNRWA.
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Country of Origin	Total refugees
	3,054,709
	1,683,579
	770,154
	476,693
	415,670
	395,577
	387,288
	338,698
	222,460
	184,602

Country of Origin	Total refugees
	183,289
	164,905
	146,794
	141,074
	134,858
	116,415
	114,836
	111,948
	93,323* (under UNHCR mandate)
	84,064

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Refugee Populations Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: segacs -
Contributed: September 23rd, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 393

Tags: Numbers Quizzes, Country Quizzes, Population Quizzes, origin, United Nations, refugee, mandate

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	Annie:	Sep 28th, 2009 at 16:29 GMT	2 points
	Burma should be accepted for Myanmar, like official Sporcle quizzes.

	segacs:	Sep 29th, 2009 at 01:21 GMT	3 points
	Annie, you're right, that was my oversight. Fixed now. Thanks.

	princessofb:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 13:40 GMT	2 points
	It's a good quiz and I have only one suggestion to offer - it's that Western Sahara isn't a country and so including it doesn't really work. Other than that, original idea and very interesting!

	segacs:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	5 points
	@princessofb, Western Sahara as well as West Bank and Gaza Strip aren't official countries; however, they are the source of a lot of refugees so excluding them doesn't give a complete picture either. I compromised by allowing the countries currently administering each territory as alternate acceptable answers for each. So if you put "Israel" or "Palestinian Territories" or "Palestine", you'd get the answer for West Bank and Gaza. Likewise, entering "Morocco" would give you the answer for Western Sahara. I thought this was the most fair way to handle this, but feel free to provide alternate suggestions if you like. Thanks for commenting!

	dtro:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 16:22 GMT	1 point
	Maybe you should accept Morocco for Western Sahara, b/c its claimed by them. I doubt anyone would guess that on its own.

	segacs:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 02:33 GMT	3 points
	@dtro: Morocco is accepted for Western Sahara, as is "SADR" and "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic", plus variants. And the West Bank and Gaza Strip answer will accept "Israel", "Palestine", "Palestinian Territories", "Israeli Disputed Territories", and a bunch of other similar variations. I tried to include all the variations I could think of, recognizing that most people are used to Sporcle-standard country names only. If you tried Morocco and it wasn't accepted, maybe you were misspelling it?

	Yoon:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 13:43 GMT	0 points
	Ha - I'm getting an advert for Holidays to Morocco on my screen just now, but after this quiz I think I'll pass . . .

	Converge:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 03:24 GMT	1 point
	This is a great quiz. Thanks.

	kennyb:	Mar 10th, 2010 at 03:24 GMT	1 point
	Good fixes and great quiz.

	segacs:	Jul 22nd, 2011 at 14:14 GMT	1 point
	Just a note to say that the quiz has been updated with 2010 database statistics.