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Ask HN: From what countries do people use HN beside USA?

35 points by doronrotem ↗ HN
I wonder from what countries do people use HN? myself from Israel.

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djhomeless
I'm accessing HN from the UK...
ErrantX
Snap :) from Lincolnshire
ropiku
Moved to Manchester for the University
rlpb
Manchester here too.
habs
Ipswich! I'm from Birmingham originally
ottbot
London here.. Though I'm in Liverpool today. But I'm actually from Texas.
djhomeless
Texas? Hehe, London as well, also hail from Texas. :)
kashif
India
hardik
Bombay (pls don't dare call it 'Mumbai')
byoung2
Here's the breakdown from Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com#demographics
pwim
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%
kuzux
Kyrgyzystan seems to be too high on the list. Any guesses?
byoung2
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.
shrikant
I suggest an upvote for the post that already mentions your country..
ascuttlefish
Canada
noarchy
Upvoted for Canada.
borga
I'm also in the Great White North, Kingston, ON to be more exact.
mattwdelong
Also from Canada, but moving to Chicago. So I am a North American; literal on two counts.
rudle
Waterloo here.

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

paulgb
I'm in Waterloo as well, and agree that it's surprising there's not more of a presence here.
imack
Ditto Canada. In Vancouver after spending undergrad and master's at Waterloo.
3pt14159
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.
faramarz
Toronto here also. We need a HN Meetup. at MaRS, or a pub or something
3pt14159
Agreed. How about an emergency HN pub night tonight at Sin and Redemption? Say... 7 PM? I could submit it to the main page.
faramarz
The emergency made me LOL! haha check your email bud
mrcharles
Montreal but soon Toronto here.
danudey
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.]

sga
Guelph here.
wesley
Belgium.
kamme
I'm one of those few Belgian visitors too.
dsm
Switzerland
giu
Representing Zürich