Can you name the countries with the highest horse populations?

Rank	Country	#
11.		805,000
12.		751,000
13.		730,000
14.		541,890
15.		534,300
16.		518,340
17.		510,000
18.		506,100
19.		500,000
20.		465,397
(21)	465,397
(22)	465,397
(23)	465,397
(24)	465,397
(25)	465,397
(26)	465,397

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World Horse Population Quiz

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Created Apr 1, 2011 in Geography
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	dafdaf:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 04:38 GMT		19 points
	So there's 1 horse for every 20 people in Haiti? Wow!

	Pogues:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 05:21 GMT		2 points
	I'm ashamed how long it took me to realize I should try Argentina.

	pion:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 05:37 GMT		7 points
	Senegal is the one that really baffles me. I get the North and South America answers; the colonial powers shipped over horses. But I guess there's no reason the Europeans couldn't have shipped horses to Senegal as well. A lot of these places may have a tradition of eating horse, as well.

	johnlk:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 06:16 GMT		17 points
	Horses didn't work well in much of sub-Saharan Africa because of the Tsetse fly and sleeping sickness. But Senegal seems to be above the Tsetse fly zone.

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	chikka2:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 07:25 GMT		21 points
	Thought Canada gots way more horsies than that

	The_Will28:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 08:40 GMT		5 points
	What of the UK's 1.3 million?

	Nol_Solano:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 08:41 GMT		17 points
	So Manya from Seinfeld told a lie, then? Apparently not all Polish people have a pony.

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 09:06 GMT		2 points
	Coming from a horse mad part of a horse loving country (UK) this was my first guess (get the obvious ones out of the way first). Nothing happened. Reserach shows that there are between 1 and 1.3 million horses in the UK, less than I was expecting but enough to place the UK in tenth place with the highest horse population in Europe (assuming that a lot of Russian horses are Asiatic). Are there any other obvious omissions?

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	Zak6009:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 11:38 GMT		36 points
	I guess Greece and Turkey banned horses after the whole Troy incident.

	Extinctanimals22:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 12:14 GMT		9 points
	@Happ_Hazard Chinese don't find horse meat a taboo like her in the west but its not that common Kazakhstan now they eat a lot of horse.

	Lil2:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 12:54 GMT		4 points
	I even thought to myself, "Ethiopia?" while I was taking the quiz. But for some reason I told myself that was stupid and didn't actually type it in.

	Meltha:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 12:57 GMT		2 points
	I was surprised Iceland wasn't in there since I've heard so much about the Icelandic breed. Apparently there are actually only about 80,000 there, but that's better than one for every four humans.

	Statto2:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 12:57 GMT		0 points
	Given their much higher per capita horse population do the Chinese make horse noises when they encounter Mongolians in a similar way that sheep noises are sometimes directed at the Welsh by the English and at New Zealanders by Aussies? Not that I could condone such mildly racist behaviour myself of course.

	Stillwater100:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 14:08 GMT		2 points
	It's amazing that horses aren't native to the Western Hemisphere and all that are in it were imported, but Western Hemisphere countries are 5 of the top 6 answers. Nifty quiz.

	EvanWill:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 16:15 GMT		3 points
	@zeppelinoid & The Will: According to the source for this quiz, the UK only has 384,000 horses, which puts them in 26th place. Id be interested to look at the data between these sources, because 1.3 million and 384k is a rather large discrepancy....

	ktappe:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 16:29 GMT		1 point
	I guess now we know a reason Haiti is poor. Horses aren't cheap!!

	booklover12:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 20:05 GMT		0 points
	Darn it--there's one country I typically enter on these types of quizzes as a kind of random guess (Senegal) and I failed to do it here!

	Yashidor:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 20:59 GMT		2 points
	Wow. Brazil has such an exact amount.

	MasterNachosII:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 21:18 GMT		0 points
	To dust off a phrase, this quiz is mostly horse sense once you think about it.

	Mr_Ed:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 23:10 GMT		0 points
	Excuse me, but I do believe you now need to change your game summary. I will not stand for this type of exclusion of Mr. Ed any longer!

	LinguaLatina:	Sep 29th, 2012 at 23:20 GMT		10 points
	I like how Canada has "horsies" whereas the others have horses

	zeppelinoid:	Sep 30th, 2012 at 10:18 GMT		6 points
	@EvanWill: I know exactly what the source says. It is clearly very inaccurate. The British Equestrian Trade Association's (BETA) National Equestrian Survey (2010-11) came up with an estimate of 988,000. There are 451,000 individuals who own at least one horse (but an average of two) plus 88,000 horses owned by the professional sector. This link gives more details: http://www.bhic.co.uk/facts-and-figures/beta-survey.html Other estimates are as high as 1.3 million (but include donkeys and mules (which are not very common) These figures do not include wild ponies which esist in a number of UK locations. I am not claiming that I know what the correct figure is only that the source is wholly inaccurate in respect of the UK horse population.