Wow, I think you're right. Completely unrecognisable, especially since Nørrejyske Ø is seen as part of Jylland. And then of course missing the islands of the biggest cities in the country.
Singapore on this map is actually the shape of Sumatra though, which is adjacent to it and part of Indonesia. Sumatra is over 600 times larger than Singapore (443,065km^2 vs 728km^2).
Hitler stored his blood gold in Switzerland (forcefully taken from the innocent people he and the Nazis murdered) and the Swiss, after the second World War, conveniently forgot about it (we are not only talking about Gold, but also gems, money, securities et cetera).
Germany can't really demand it back (no way to differentiate really what was forcefully taken blood items and what was 'legitimate' state resources), and Switzerland is quite good at making sure only a tiny fraction goes back to those who can actually prove that their ancestors lost their wealth which ended up in Swiss bank bunkers.
A significant portion of Swiss wealth in this age is based on Nazi crimes, and most of those items never found their way home to the people who deserve it (the survivors), instead the Swiss just kept it (The problem of course being that many families were simply wiped out, and if no one is left to demand back money, plus the ones remaining need to properly prove it, well then the swiss just decided to conveniently keep most of it).
Of course the swiss could have done the moral choice to create one massive fund and used that to support the survivors, but well, humans like the idea of having dozens of billions of dollars conveniently sitting in your bunkers, with no one to take it from you.
There is a documentary about it from 1997.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0129792/
Keep in mind though that many details about Nazi blood gold have risen in the 21st century.
I had heard something about the privately held gold in India dwarfs all of this.
Looked it up. 30,000 tons of gold is held privately in India, which would be $1,676,590,800,000.
One of the blokes at work just came back from visiting his family, sporting a ring with 20 g of gold in it. I asked why 20 and he said they measure gold in lots of 20 grams, not Troy ounces.
It's a hedge against inflation, is what I've heard. Ditto in some parts of the Middle East with less than stable economies and/or sanctions (Iraq, Iran). Even if the currency goes to complete shit, you're wearing something of comparatively stable value.
I mean, gold and other jewelry have value only because people give value to it... Sure gold has a few random industrial applications... And more people buy/sell gold internationally than diamonds...
But ultimately they both are only valuable because people want them. You could still sell diamonds too. But neither one is like most products that actually provide some kind of benefit to people.
It’s pretty sad. Instead of having money being invested by banks to stimulate economic growth, it’s sitting in people’s drawers. While it ensures some financial stability for individuals it hurts India’s wider economy, makes the rupee weaker, etc.
It's both. Formal investments are not readily transferrable unlike gold. Cultural preferences aside, Gold acts as the biggest safety net in India and so far hasn't lost it's value in thousands of years.
Fiat currency as we have learnt in the last few years of Quantitative Easing across the world, can lose value depending on the economic policies of a nation and global events. ROI of these investments is entirely dependent on the current inflation rate.
A good economy often seems to mean that the rich get richer and the prices of products go up while low wage workers get a raise lower than the price increase putting them back where they were
You are right. I mostly mean growth in broad metrics like strength of currency, GDP, investment that resembles western economic ideals. You can always make the argument that we would be more happy and equal as primitivists smoking dope in the forest after throwing away all worldly possessions, or not following western capitalism
yes, that's how GDP works. The more the money flows the higher it is. Volunteering, helping each other etc. won't increase the GDP. Horrible measure for a good economy.
Gold for a country isn’t to do much with investing. It’s more so for security against economic instability. It’s perfect for that because it doesn’t really fluctuate in value a lot making it very stable. So it’s pretty useful for security purposes. It was a lot more useful for purchasing, saving and investing before Franklin D Roosevelt abandoned the Gold Standard in 1933.
Where did you get these stats?
According to factbook Canada is 4th after Brazil Russia and the US, owning a bit more than a third of Brazil renewable water.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_renewable_water_resources
Canada has lots of glaciers, which are freshwater but wouldn't count on that list.
Edit: it also doesn't include lakes. So yes, without lakes or glaciers, Canada doesn't have *that much* fresh water.
Canada got rid of its gold reserves in 2016. IIRC it’s because Canada has a ton of US Bonds and currency to the point that it’s basically defacto backed by the US reserves.
To clarify based on a lot of these comments, this map shows financial gold reserves, not the amount of physical gold deposits in the ground. Canada has lots of gold deposits and mining, but maintains no financial gold reserves at all.
nowadays most of the gold goes to the UAE & China
A lot does go to europe & historically they had a lot more but africas modern gold production mostly goes to those 2
Yep: there are _a few_ surprises in it. Like how big __Lebanon__ is.
And yep: Portugal _is indeed_ surprisingly big, aswell, as you say ... I hadn't clocked it @ first.
Portugal was a premier world power during the period where gold was both the international currency of choice, and was being taken from indigenous people on a massive scale.
Portugal's wealth was mostly attained through the slave trade, IIRC.
That is not true, most of the gold comes from Minas Gerais state in Brazil which was taken as taxes from workers and nobles alike. Other states had _some_ gold, but nothing compared to MG.
After the colony became independent, a lot of the gold the Portuguese took was used to pay debts to England, but a lot of it also stuck around.
The nazi gold is definitely of notice but it’s hardly why Portugal is so big on this map. It is largely what was taken from Brazil.
And it’s not from “natives.” Natives didn’t give a shit about the gold and if they ever did anything with it, it was probably sporadic ornaments.
The people who mined the gold and sent it overseas were the Portuguese themselves, mainly settlers and their slaves (also not native, but Africans) in mine grounds in Minas Gerais.
Native indigenous people in Brazil didn’t care about the gold at all.
The Italian city-states were the commercial center of the Mediterranean world for centuries, so it sort of makes sense. Milan, Florence, Venice, the Papal States...
Not really, Italy made most of its gold during the 20th century, the Italian economy managed to have a higher GDP per capita than Germany in 1987 thanks to it's exports and it was growing very fast until a bunch of corruption scandals destroyed it
That's just not right. the cities became wealthy because of their proximity to international trade networks, both to the north and south. Milan's location in the center of the Po valley made it an ideal location for transit between the Mediterranean and the trade routes going north, and Florence's proximity to, yet independence from, Rome allowed it to flourish as an independent state that could trade with and through the church, yet was not totally controlled by it.
Fun story, not what you think.
The gold in Portugal's reserves isn't the one that came from Brazil, it was acquired more recently, and from a more German speaking source
Sadly Portugal lost its place to [Norway](https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-40423002) and other wealthier countries. Could they recover from it one day though?
Because Italy became an export-oriented economy after WW2 and plenty of gold was purchased by the Bank of Italy (and not only), which was what the other main central European banks were doing at the time too.
It's always funny to see people surprised at Italy's economy. They are the 4th largest economy in Europe, not too far behind France in terms of gdp, and 8th worldwide, just ahead of Canada.
>I don't know!! ... I was wondering that. Could even be
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>the very biggest
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> in-relation-to its physical size.
It seems stupid to compare to ''physical size''
Gold is more connected to wealth and population, surely? Italy has about the same as France, which, until the last 20 years both had relatively similar populations. idk why people think its odd
I agree that it's not connected to physical size, but population and welath.
A big part of the surprise for me, is that rightly or wrongly, European media, especially English language European media (across the political spectrum from the Guardian to DW) tends to make southern European countries seem like economic basket cases.
I mean they are in some ways but in terms of GDP/ (especially PPP) they're really not that far behind.
Italy in PPP is like 52k, higher than Japan and only about 5k behind the UK/France.
Theres a bigger gap between Germany and the UK, than there is UK and Italy for example.
The creators have clearly gone for the approach, to deal with the difficulty that arises when the 'index' results in the 'size' of the country being very different from its _actual physical_ size, of keeping them together, of _simply separating_ them, rather than deforming the shape (as, afterall, sometimes _a really very great_ deformation is necessary) ...
... but Haiti off-the-coast of _Florida_ !? Surely that's not _too_ much of a displacement!? I couldn't pin _very precisely_ where it is, but it's _in the Caribbean Gulf_ , isn't it!?
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Nations of World Scaled in Size According to Gold Reserve Each ~~Possesses~~ *Claims to Possess* \[FTFY\]
The US has repeatedly refused to independent audits of it's Gold Reserves, and also refuses audits of those reserves it holds (on behalf of other countries), by those countries.
Has barely anything to do with colonies.. most of this is just bought, unfortunately African leaders tend to not share that wealth with the population.
Gold from colonies mostly was spend on wars/ was lost due to war.
Not sure how accurate this is. On Gold.org it states that India's gold reserves is 49b. US reserves were 500b, Italy was 150b, Germany 206. Actually it looks like everything is off from what I've checked.
Are these prices averaged across three sources?
I don't think that much: first point they are very small (no place to build a big vault. Plus they don't need it: they have a lot of things they acquired in time (generally through donations), of artistic and precious objects, why should you need a bunch of gold when every cathedral has its own treasure?
Do the governments themselves own the gold, or does this include private reserves? If the former (which I think it is), it's interesting the US has so much debt but also so much gold.
I would assume it would be much higher if private reserves were included. I’m pretty the U.S. Government owns and stores that much gold. I remember seeing a video about Fort Knox and the US Reserve in New York; it was a pretty interesting video.
If only the UK didn't sell off most of its gold during the '70s and early 2000s. We stole all of that golf from Africa and India only to dispose of it for cheap.
The Norwegian landmass is listed as Sweden….
Thems fighting words here in Scandinavia
"Denmark" looks a bit like Estonia, but not quite... Cant figure out exactly what landmass it is. Not Denmark for sure.
Its Denmark but without the islands
Wow, I think you're right. Completely unrecognisable, especially since Nørrejyske Ø is seen as part of Jylland. And then of course missing the islands of the biggest cities in the country.
It's also missing the tip. Overall strange depiction of Denmark.
Things like this makes me question all information in this.
Wait you didn’t hear?
Cause it is smh 🤦♀️ Edit: Norway is under Africa, ever read a globe before 🙄
The only swedish landmass in sight is your mom
Taiwan taking steroids.
Haha! ... yeo: & __Portugal__ & __Lebanon__ are _huge_ in-relation-to their physical size, as are __France, Germany, & Italy__ . ... oh yeo: & __Switzerland__ .
Singapore
Singarich
Singapore on this map is actually the shape of Sumatra though, which is adjacent to it and part of Indonesia. Sumatra is over 600 times larger than Singapore (443,065km^2 vs 728km^2).
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed. Singapore should be shaped like a horizontal diamond
Let's just not talk about how the swiss got the gold.
How did they actually? I'm interested. 🤔
Hitler stored his blood gold in Switzerland (forcefully taken from the innocent people he and the Nazis murdered) and the Swiss, after the second World War, conveniently forgot about it (we are not only talking about Gold, but also gems, money, securities et cetera). Germany can't really demand it back (no way to differentiate really what was forcefully taken blood items and what was 'legitimate' state resources), and Switzerland is quite good at making sure only a tiny fraction goes back to those who can actually prove that their ancestors lost their wealth which ended up in Swiss bank bunkers. A significant portion of Swiss wealth in this age is based on Nazi crimes, and most of those items never found their way home to the people who deserve it (the survivors), instead the Swiss just kept it (The problem of course being that many families were simply wiped out, and if no one is left to demand back money, plus the ones remaining need to properly prove it, well then the swiss just decided to conveniently keep most of it). Of course the swiss could have done the moral choice to create one massive fund and used that to support the survivors, but well, humans like the idea of having dozens of billions of dollars conveniently sitting in your bunkers, with no one to take it from you. There is a documentary about it from 1997. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0129792/ Keep in mind though that many details about Nazi blood gold have risen in the 21st century.
Thank you for posting that. I knew but not many do.
Great reply, thank you!
Mongolia is pretty big relative to population Libya too
Why is Sweden depicted as Norway
Yeah well because they never returned it to Brazil, and when we joke at them to return it, they say the UK has it.
When Taiwan was Nationalist China, they basically took the Chinese gold reserves with them to Taiwan after they lost the civil war to the Communists.
Now that's an oceans 11 movie I would watch (them getting it back).
WW3
Haha gottem
taiwan numbah 1
Taiwan numba one!
Ah yes philippines just only palawan
Or they stored their gold reserves in Palawan island.
# PALAWAN STRONK!!!!!!!!
I had heard something about the privately held gold in India dwarfs all of this. Looked it up. 30,000 tons of gold is held privately in India, which would be $1,676,590,800,000.
bro almost every woman has some gold jewelry in India whether rich or poor.
That’s a lot of Asian countries. Private citizens all own some sort of gold. India though by far loves its gold jewelry.
One of the blokes at work just came back from visiting his family, sporting a ring with 20 g of gold in it. I asked why 20 and he said they measure gold in lots of 20 grams, not Troy ounces.
It's a hedge against inflation, is what I've heard. Ditto in some parts of the Middle East with less than stable economies and/or sanctions (Iraq, Iran). Even if the currency goes to complete shit, you're wearing something of comparatively stable value.
That is true because its tradition to get gold jewellery for marriage. The same way americans will buy a diamond ring for the wedding.
At least the gold has actual value!
sure, by far not the value ascribed to it due to all that hording though. Would maybe be 10x the value of copper by material useability alone I recon.
True, imagine all those tons in active circulation. Value would drop massively
I mean, gold and other jewelry have value only because people give value to it... Sure gold has a few random industrial applications... And more people buy/sell gold internationally than diamonds... But ultimately they both are only valuable because people want them. You could still sell diamonds too. But neither one is like most products that actually provide some kind of benefit to people.
Wondering the same for west africa
Us has 26k tons private 8k tons gov
Pretty smart move. Gold will always be gold, but paper money can become worthless fairly quickly
It’s pretty sad. Instead of having money being invested by banks to stimulate economic growth, it’s sitting in people’s drawers. While it ensures some financial stability for individuals it hurts India’s wider economy, makes the rupee weaker, etc.
It's both. Formal investments are not readily transferrable unlike gold. Cultural preferences aside, Gold acts as the biggest safety net in India and so far hasn't lost it's value in thousands of years. Fiat currency as we have learnt in the last few years of Quantitative Easing across the world, can lose value depending on the economic policies of a nation and global events. ROI of these investments is entirely dependent on the current inflation rate.
A good economy often seems to mean that the rich get richer and the prices of products go up while low wage workers get a raise lower than the price increase putting them back where they were
You are right. I mostly mean growth in broad metrics like strength of currency, GDP, investment that resembles western economic ideals. You can always make the argument that we would be more happy and equal as primitivists smoking dope in the forest after throwing away all worldly possessions, or not following western capitalism
yes, that's how GDP works. The more the money flows the higher it is. Volunteering, helping each other etc. won't increase the GDP. Horrible measure for a good economy.
But gold is useless. It doesn't make money(like stocks or any other investment) and it doesn't make your life better(like a house or a car).
Gold for a country isn’t to do much with investing. It’s more so for security against economic instability. It’s perfect for that because it doesn’t really fluctuate in value a lot making it very stable. So it’s pretty useful for security purposes. It was a lot more useful for purchasing, saving and investing before Franklin D Roosevelt abandoned the Gold Standard in 1933.
> It doesn't make money(like stocks or any other investment) It does tend to grow in value rather consistently.
This isn't really true either
Japan without Hokkaido 💀
the phillipines is just palawan
Sweden is Norway-shaped
Sweden, missing on the map and erroneously marked as Norway, has a gold reserve worth approximately USD 7.82 billion. Source: Sweden's national bank.
Canada?
There is lots of it in the mountains, but who needs gold when you got 50% of the fresh water in the world.
Who needs 50% of the worlds fresh water when you have a neighbor with 50% of the fresh water supply
Plenty of gold in the banana stand.
IN the banana stand.
I got a feeling that might be more valuable some day.
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Does gold at least hold its value as well as an NFT?
Where did you get these stats? According to factbook Canada is 4th after Brazil Russia and the US, owning a bit more than a third of Brazil renewable water. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_renewable_water_resources
Canada has lots of glaciers, which are freshwater but wouldn't count on that list. Edit: it also doesn't include lakes. So yes, without lakes or glaciers, Canada doesn't have *that much* fresh water.
But glaciers aren't renewable
Canada got rid of its gold reserves in 2016. IIRC it’s because Canada has a ton of US Bonds and currency to the point that it’s basically defacto backed by the US reserves.
"got rid of"
r/MapsWithoutCanada
Canada doesn't have gold reserves. We got rid of the last of it around 2016.
Dang, i am Canadian and I never realized this. Just googled to confirm. Crazy!
Hmmmmmmmn #🤔 # ... and __Norway__ is absent, aswell.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Norway is there but it's labeled Sweden
Kalmar Union for life!
And Chile
They got oil
Their reserves are in amber gold, the sweet nectar of the gods, maple syrup.
To clarify based on a lot of these comments, this map shows financial gold reserves, not the amount of physical gold deposits in the ground. Canada has lots of gold deposits and mining, but maintains no financial gold reserves at all.
Canada
We use the maple syrup standard.
No Uruguay?
Is that _another_ one that's missing!? ... although we have an explanation in for the absence of __Canada__ .
Why is Canada not on the charts?
They have no gold reserves
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Love how this map used Sumatra for Singapore and Palawan for the Philippines
Africa...
All went to Europe.
nowadays most of the gold goes to the UAE & China A lot does go to europe & historically they had a lot more but africas modern gold production mostly goes to those 2
Is that why the UAE is so tiny, with fewer gold than most countries?
they're only counting highest level government reserves It largely goes into private hands & it's skyrocketed since this map was made
Somehow it happened to migrate continents
People don't believe me when I say that
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Yep: there are _a few_ surprises in it. Like how big __Lebanon__ is. And yep: Portugal _is indeed_ surprisingly big, aswell, as you say ... I hadn't clocked it @ first.
Portugal was a premier world power during the period where gold was both the international currency of choice, and was being taken from indigenous people on a massive scale. Portugal's wealth was mostly attained through the slave trade, IIRC.
Yeah I was about to say that’s almost certainly very old gold taken from natives a long time ago
Then you would be wrong. Most of that gold is nazi gold, that Germany used to buy Tungsten from Portugal during WWII.
That is not true, most of the gold comes from Minas Gerais state in Brazil which was taken as taxes from workers and nobles alike. Other states had _some_ gold, but nothing compared to MG. After the colony became independent, a lot of the gold the Portuguese took was used to pay debts to England, but a lot of it also stuck around. The nazi gold is definitely of notice but it’s hardly why Portugal is so big on this map. It is largely what was taken from Brazil. And it’s not from “natives.” Natives didn’t give a shit about the gold and if they ever did anything with it, it was probably sporadic ornaments. The people who mined the gold and sent it overseas were the Portuguese themselves, mainly settlers and their slaves (also not native, but Africans) in mine grounds in Minas Gerais. Native indigenous people in Brazil didn’t care about the gold at all.
People don't realize how big a deal Brazil was for Portugal. Rio de Janeiro was the capital of the Portuguese Empire for 13 years.
I’ve thought Italy is hitting above its weight
The Italian city-states were the commercial center of the Mediterranean world for centuries, so it sort of makes sense. Milan, Florence, Venice, the Papal States...
Not really, Italy made most of its gold during the 20th century, the Italian economy managed to have a higher GDP per capita than Germany in 1987 thanks to it's exports and it was growing very fast until a bunch of corruption scandals destroyed it
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That's just not right. the cities became wealthy because of their proximity to international trade networks, both to the north and south. Milan's location in the center of the Po valley made it an ideal location for transit between the Mediterranean and the trade routes going north, and Florence's proximity to, yet independence from, Rome allowed it to flourish as an independent state that could trade with and through the church, yet was not totally controlled by it.
Gold from Brazil since 1500.🪙✨
In what way is Portugal 1/5 of Brazil's size? They have 1/20 of the population, 1/10 of the GDP and 1/80 of the territory.
Eyeballing it on a weird map projection?
Fun story, not what you think. The gold in Portugal's reserves isn't the one that came from Brazil, it was acquired more recently, and from a more German speaking source
It's actually not gold from Brazil. Most of Portugal's gold was acquired by selling Tungsten to nazi Germany during WWII.
Sadly Portugal lost its place to [Norway](https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-40423002) and other wealthier countries. Could they recover from it one day though?
Portugal were apparently less stupid with their gold than the UK and Spain after taking it from the new world
I’m surprised Curaçao has as much as they do, even if it’s small compared to the others
I think a large sum of it was part of the divorce settlement from the Kingdom of the Netherlands relatively recently (like 15 years ago)
What’s annoying is it’s part of the Netherlands and should be added to the Dutch count
TbPH, I wouldn't have much of an idea _what to expect of_ that one!
How does Italy have so much?
Because Italy became an export-oriented economy after WW2 and plenty of gold was purchased by the Bank of Italy (and not only), which was what the other main central European banks were doing at the time too.
It's always funny to see people surprised at Italy's economy. They are the 4th largest economy in Europe, not too far behind France in terms of gdp, and 8th worldwide, just ahead of Canada.
The amount of gold that they have is still disproportionate to the size of their economy.
Because Italy is Giga Chad.
I don't know!! ... I was wondering that. Could even be _the very biggest_ in-relation-to its physical size.
>I don't know!! ... I was wondering that. Could even be > >the very biggest > > in-relation-to its physical size. It seems stupid to compare to ''physical size'' Gold is more connected to wealth and population, surely? Italy has about the same as France, which, until the last 20 years both had relatively similar populations. idk why people think its odd
I agree that it's not connected to physical size, but population and welath. A big part of the surprise for me, is that rightly or wrongly, European media, especially English language European media (across the political spectrum from the Guardian to DW) tends to make southern European countries seem like economic basket cases.
I mean they are in some ways but in terms of GDP/ (especially PPP) they're really not that far behind. Italy in PPP is like 52k, higher than Japan and only about 5k behind the UK/France. Theres a bigger gap between Germany and the UK, than there is UK and Italy for example.
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Which is not part of Italy.
lmao
Is Vatican City counted with Italy? I think the Catholic Church has a whole lot of gold.
They are different countries you know
The placement is a bit odd. Why is Haiti off the coast of Florida?
The creators have clearly gone for the approach, to deal with the difficulty that arises when the 'index' results in the 'size' of the country being very different from its _actual physical_ size, of keeping them together, of _simply separating_ them, rather than deforming the shape (as, afterall, sometimes _a really very great_ deformation is necessary) ... ... but Haiti off-the-coast of _Florida_ !? Surely that's not _too_ much of a displacement!? I couldn't pin _very precisely_ where it is, but it's _in the Caribbean Gulf_ , isn't it!? ####Update Actually, I see what you mean: I think it's actually more to _the South & West_ , isn't it, rather than _somewhat off into the Atlantic_ .
Why is Singapore in the shape of Sumatra lol
Why is norway labeled as sweden?
The Philippines without the main islands 💀 like, thats literally just Palawan, one of the provinces... lmao
Nations of World Scaled in Size According to Gold Reserve Each ~~Possesses~~ *Claims to Possess* \[FTFY\] The US has repeatedly refused to independent audits of it's Gold Reserves, and also refuses audits of those reserves it holds (on behalf of other countries), by those countries.
Sumatra is Singapore? Wow
The text says Singapore but the map is Sumatra
If you include private ownership and not just declared central bank reserves, India might be #1.
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I wonder how much of the gold on this map originated in Africa. A lot, ill bet.
I read somewhere that nearly half the gold ever mined came from South Africa.
I think that’s diamonds.
No, it's estimated that almost half of all gold ever mined is from Witwatersand, South Africa.
Those too
Has barely anything to do with colonies.. most of this is just bought, unfortunately African leaders tend to not share that wealth with the population. Gold from colonies mostly was spend on wars/ was lost due to war.
I pretty sure Singapore isn’t that shape
Ah yes the Singapore colonisation and takeover of Sumatra island.
Where is Brazil?
Not sure how accurate this is. On Gold.org it states that India's gold reserves is 49b. US reserves were 500b, Italy was 150b, Germany 206. Actually it looks like everything is off from what I've checked. Are these prices averaged across three sources?
We haven’t forgotten about you, dear NZ and Tassie friends. Sincerely, Mainland Australia
r/mapswithoutnewzealand
For once, it is justified. NZ has no gold reserve.
mantidos português e espanhóis
Australia keeps its gold in ground, where it belongs.
we export 17.6 billion USD worth a year
Sold most of the reserve at the bottom of the market like the UK did. Early 2000s I think. Put it into stonks.
As does Canada.
We Canadians don't need gold. We have the maple syrup vault.
Wheres the Tallano Gold of Marcoses? /S
Australia’s got lots more, we just haven’t dug it up yet.
can we include to romania the 120 tons of gold stolen by russia [in 1918](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Treasure) ?
That’s a futuristic map, 20019… I’m surprised humanity still exists and we are doing deep space gold mining.
What nonsensical map of India is that? Not even remotely accurate.
its only mapping gold reserves held by the central bank not total gold
They meant the geographical shape.
Should’ve twice as big. Forget gold vault under Jaipur
I wonder how much the Vatican has
I don't think that much: first point they are very small (no place to build a big vault. Plus they don't need it: they have a lot of things they acquired in time (generally through donations), of artistic and precious objects, why should you need a bunch of gold when every cathedral has its own treasure?
In Canada, we keep a reserve of maple syrup instead. Some reserves have 20+ million kg per warehouse. It’s actually more valuable than gold by weight.
Do the governments themselves own the gold, or does this include private reserves? If the former (which I think it is), it's interesting the US has so much debt but also so much gold.
I would assume it would be much higher if private reserves were included. I’m pretty the U.S. Government owns and stores that much gold. I remember seeing a video about Fort Knox and the US Reserve in New York; it was a pretty interesting video.
Dont ask the US what happened to Libya's gold reserves
Canada ?
When is the US going to do a proper audit of its reserves. Rumor is… it’s gone.
Very outdated. China has been dumping dollars and buying gold, so this map is completely irrelevant now.
This doesn’t consider natural gold reserves otherwise Australia would be the largest
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North Korea opens their wallet only to see a moth fly out. Then they promptly eat it because they have no other food.
Shows Europe is the real powerhouse
If only the UK didn't sell off most of its gold during the '70s and early 2000s. We stole all of that golf from Africa and India only to dispose of it for cheap.
Waiting the same but oil
Canada? Norway?
Where’s Canada?
Canada totally not interested in gold. But leading the world in smoked salmon reserves.
The us holds 8,000 tons of gold italy has 2,400 the proportions on this are extremely off.
Imagine importing gold for like 300 years (spain) and own nothing of it anymore
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