Celebrating Two Million Geocaches – List by Country

Eric Schudiske on February 10, 2013, 10:42 am

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Top countries or territories by active the number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

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Top countries and territories by active number of geocaches – data from Geocaching.com from January of 2013

On February 4th, 2013 there were no active geocaches in just 7 of the 193 U.N. recognized member states: North Korea, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Solomon Islands, Central African Republic and Somalia.

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GadgetCats

The number of caches in each country is absolutely interesting in itself, but the relative activity in each country would also be interesting, and more comparable: The number of active caches per per one million citizens. Also the number of active caches per 1,000 square kilometer for each country would be interesting.
Komet_GPS_free

Your are right. In small countries, like mine (Czech Republic) couldn’t be as many caches as in USA. But the cache density is there 4 times higher than in USA.
Juicepig

Yes, thought the same thing, a “caches per Capita” relating population to cache count
Guest

Am I missing Mongolia on this list? There are 90 caches there, but I’m not seeing it.
William Dieterich

Long figured this would be an interesting way to figure “wealth” of the country. Since geocaching requires a fair amount of spare money and time along as some technical knowledge a per capita count would indicate a fairly wealthy country.
William Dieterich

also not seeing Albania, don’t think there many there.
William Dieterich

Mongolia is number 80
http://www.facebook.com/matus.morong Matúš Morong

#120
Dan Putt

Wish this was a text list so searching was easier
alkhalikoi

Alas, Groundspeak rebuffed my request three years ago to allow a new virtual inside the conference rooms at Panmunjon. We could have had a cache in North Korea!
http://blog.geocaching.com Eric Schudiske

Love it… Countries by geocache density would be an interesting measure, especially as we close in on saturation for some countries.
http://twitter.com/GustaferTokyo Gustafer Tokyo

Looking at the cool infographics, some of us geocachers in Japan thought that Japan was in 7th place! But that was a bit misleading. Now I see from this chart that Japan is in the 20th spot. I guess Groudspeak wants to promote the international-ness of geocaching by including Australia, Japan, S. Korea, and S. Africa.
http://www.facebook.com/eddy.winrow Eddy Winrow

It would be good, if each of the countries had a link to them so as, people who are not so good in Geography or English, can click and find out exactly where that country is
Regards
Eddy
Team French Bulldogs (Great Britain & Germany)
http://www.facebook.com/thomas.moesi Thomas Nix

who wants to drop the first cache in north korea?
CatFlowers

I must be missing it….but which are the countries don’t have caches?
DiFazz

Yep, im from Czech Republic…. and im so proud of the Cache with the most of FI is in Czech Republic… Its very popular in czech republic…
Badger

Quote: “On February 4th, 2013 there were no active geocaches in just 7 of the 193 U.N. recognized member states:
North Korea, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Solomon Islands, Central African Republic and Somalia.”

But the Grafic lists 237 countries?
Caching Tux

I’m missing Brazil and Chile!
Caching Tux

No, Brazil is 37.
Guest

And Chile 47.
tennyogirl

Has anyone else noticed the Solomon islands are listed as not having any caches and also in the country list with one hide?
Andy

I bet dennis rodman will
@TeamGewei

That’s impossible. GPS navigation is forbidden in North Korea. And without any GPS signal….no Geocaching!
Paul Schubert

How do they (try they to) conrol??
Paul Schubert

How do they (try they to) conrol??
k-lord

184 of 193 countries have at least one cache. This mean there are 9 countries without cache, but you listed only 7. What are the two countries without cache?
GSinLV

You can geocache without a GPS. It’s easier in the US using UTM coordinates and a USGS 7.5 Minute map.

Latitude 47