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Ask HN: From what countries do people use HN beside USA?
35 points by doronrotem 5915 days ago
I wonder from what countries do people use HN? myself from Israel.
72 comments

The text breakdown doesn't show some of the numbers that are in the map. However, they are in the source. Here they are.

  United States 54.3%
  India 8.2%
  United Kingdom 4.5%
  Canada 3.6%
  Germany 3.2%
  China 2.4%
  Australia 2.3%
  Italy 2.0%
  Pakistan 1.9%
  South Africa 1.6%
  China 2.4%
  Australia 2.3%
  Italy 2.0%
  Pakistan 1.9%
  South Africa 1.6%
  Netherlands 1.4%
  Kyrgyzstan 1.0%
  Belgium 0.7%
  Mexico 0.7%
  Cameroon 0.7%
  Ireland 0.6%
  Japan 0.5%
  Other 10.4%
Kyrgyzystan seems to be too high on the list. Any guesses?
With Alexa data your results will be skewed because you will only count visits from people with the Alexa toolbar installed. For whatever reason, people in Kyrgyzystan are more likely to have the Alexa toolbar.
I'm accessing HN from the UK...
London here.. Though I'm in Liverpool today. But I'm actually from Texas.
Texas? Hehe, London as well, also hail from Texas. :)
Ipswich! I'm from Birmingham originally
Moved to Manchester for the University
Manchester here too.
Snap :) from Lincolnshire
Scotland!
Me too - Edinburgh
Ditto.
Scotland too
Canada
Toronto has a huge presence on Hacker News out of those that come from Canada. At first I thought it was one of my monikers ("A Toronto Data Guy") but after linking to some of my colleagues blog posts and checking out their Google Analytics results, it turns out that Toronto is many times over represented.
Toronto here also. We need a HN Meetup. at MaRS, or a pub or something
Agreed. How about an emergency HN pub night tonight at Sin and Redemption? Say... 7 PM? I could submit it to the main page.
The emergency made me LOL! haha check your email bud
Montreal but soon Toronto here.
Waterloo here.

I would think that we would have more of a presence on HN.

I'm in Waterloo as well, and agree that it's surprising there's not more of a presence here.
Can't believe no one's said Vancouver yet. Oh well, it's only 10:30, everyone else must be sleeping in.

[Edit: Oh wait, imack is in Vancouver, but he's from Waterloo. That explains why he's up so early.]

Ditto Canada. In Vancouver after spending undergrad and master's at Waterloo.
I thought Canada was the 51st state :-p
Guelph here.
Edmonton, Alberta... :(
Upvoted for Canada.
I'm also in the Great White North, Kingston, ON to be more exact.
Also from Canada, but moving to Chicago. So I am a North American; literal on two counts.
Ottawa here!
Hacker News Summary was recently featured on the front page of Hacker News. Here is a PDF export of the number of visitors only from Hacker News and what country they came from. It should give a decent representation of where Hacker News users are located. http://hnsummary.com/2010/04/07/ask-hn-from-what-countries-d...
India
Trivandrum, India.

I wonder if non-indians can pronounce the official name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram

Chennai, India
Ditto.
New Delhi.
Hyderabad, India
From Bangalore.
Bombay (pls don't dare call it 'Mumbai')
From Pune
Delhi
Gurgaon
We should organize a HN meetup on Delhi
Bangalore... logged in.
I suggest an upvote for the post that already mentions your country..
I think it would be more interesting to find a country that has no HN user. If there is any (I guess it isn't). North Korea, maybe…
Canada
Japan. In fact, the first Hacker News Japan meetup is happening on Friday the 9th of April, in 2 days time.
Australia
Melbourne
Sydney
Brazil here.
Same here
gaúcho here
+1.
Czech Republic (US citizen)
Same here. I assume you're in Prague? I thought I was alone here...
No, you're not alone. In fact, nekopa and I met last week. Send me an email (it's in my profile) and we can all meet up.
Germany, ayee!
yep, here too
France
Paris :)
Toulon
Currently I'm in Scotland, but originally from Lithuania
Belgium.
I'm one of those few Belgian visitors too.
.be aswell!
Me too.
Here too !
Ireland
Another Irish person here!
ditto
tritto
ditto
and another
Surprised, no one have mentioned Russia yet. I've seen here a couple of people besides me.
Cairo, Egypt
Masri?
South Africa
Johannesburg, in my case.
Texas.

Ok, not really a country, but it feels like it sometimes.

Italy
Norway
Norway here as well.
Sweden
Gotland here!
Mexico
Me too =)
Nepal, although I goto school here in US.
The Netherlands
Spain
Canarias, Spain
Valencia, Spain
Madrid, Spain
Georgia, Tbilisi. Country not State.
Philippines
same here :)
ditto
Argentina
Lithuania (Vilnius)
Croatia
Dominican Republic
new zealand. although im currently in australia
China.
Shanghai, China (well Morocco right now because I'm on holidays)
Chongqing, China
UAE, Dubai :-)
Tunisia (Sfax)
India
Germany here
Israel here.
Switzerland
Representing Zürich
ditto
Indonesia
Malaysia!
Sri Lanka
Singapore
+1 singapore
Here too
Thailand
#2
Estonia
Israel.
Austria
Denmark
+1 Denmark :)
Ecuador
Poland.
Second one from Poland.

Btw. http://www.hackrtrackr.com/index.php shows some HNrs on the map.

Jamaica
Ireland
Uruguay
Finland
Ukraine
Greece
Turkey
France
Kenya.
Chile
Chile
Peru
cambodia
India
I'm one of the few people from Portugal.
Me too. Don't assume we are only a few. That's a very Portuguese attitude to take :)
Glad to hear that.
From Portugal (Porto) too.
I'm in Lisbon, Portugal
Coimbra, here!
yawn :p