If 2019 felt like a decade long, then 2020 was a half century. But we’ve made it through, I suppose, for what it was. I’m sure we all picked up a new quarantine hobby or interest and learned something along the way. But even if you just watched Family Guy or South Park and spaced out, that’s ok too (because I also did that). But I did keep cooking, and now I only have a handful of countries to get through until I can say “mission accomplished.”
— In 2020, I started with Syria and ended with Venezuela.
— At the end of 2020, I completed the 189th country for this blog. This now makes me 96.4% finished with this project.
— Of all the countries I have completed so far
52 (27.51%) have been in Africa
47 (24.87%) have been in Europe
26 (13.76%) have been in Asia
15 (7.94%) have been in the Middle East
15 (7.94%) have been in Oceania
13 (6.88%) have been in the Caribbean
12 (6.35%) have been in South America
7 (3.70%) have been in Central America
2 (1.06%) has been in North America
— Of the 189 countries I have completed so far, 510 languages are represented in some capacity, either as an official language or at some kind of national/regional/vernacular level. Here are the ones who hold some level of status in three or more countries:
English: 70
French: 41
Arabic: 28
Spanish: 24
German: 14
Russian: 14
Portuguese: 11
Romany/Romani: 10
Armenian: 9
Croatian: 9
Italian: 9
Ukrainian: 9
Greek: 8
Hungarian: 8
Albanian: 7
Bulgarian: 7
Serbian: 7
Swahili: 7
Slovak: 6
Turkish: 6
Azerbaijani: 5
Romanian: 5
Rusyn: 5
Chinese (Mandarin): 4
Belarusian: 4
Berber (Tamazight): 4
Garifuna: 4
Occitan: 4
Polish: 4
Slovene/Slovenian: 4
Tatar: 4
Yiddish: 4
Afrikaans: 3
Bosnian: 3
Carib: 3
Catalan: 3
Chechen: 3
Circassian: 3
Crimean Tatar: 3
Danish: 3
Dutch: 3
Fula: 3
Kurdish: 3
Kyrgyz: 3
Malay (Bahasa Malaya): 3
Mandinka: 3
Sami: 3
Somali: 3
Swedish: 3
Tamil: 3
Tigrinya: 3
Urdu: 3
Uyghur: 3
Uzbek: 3
Wolof: 3
— As of December 31, 2020 at 9:15 p.m. EST, I have had a total of pageviews 828,088 (an increase of 72,234 from this time last year). I have posted 827 blog posts (an increase of 85 posts) since I started in February 2012 and now have 28 followers (I didn’t gain any more followers this year on the blog site, but I do have 145 people who follow it on Facebook).
— Here are the top ten countries based on the number of pageviews (of all time). Every country on this list is still in the same position as last year:
1. United States
3. Russia
2. Philippines
4. Canada
5. United Kingdom
6. Germany
7. France
8. Australia
9. Ukraine
10. Other [probably people using a VPN where Google can’t track them, perhaps]
— I will finally finish this blog in April 2021, starting with Vietnam. My list originally ended with Zimbabwe, only counting the countries that were part of the UN. But then I realized there were three countries that are not part of the UN (Kosovo, Taiwan, and Vatican City), so I added those at the end. It’s weird to think that I’ll update this list again in a few months when everything is complete.
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