Meet one person from every country.

Notting Hill is Syrian!

Remaining Asian countries:
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, North Korea, Kyrgyztan, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Qatar, Tajikistan, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen

A colleague at New University is Danish. woo hoo!

Remaining European countries:
Andorra, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican

Thanks to jaosehl.

Remaining African countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

I learned today that one of my coworkers was born in Venezuela!

The short list of remaining South American countries is:
Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay

Actual professional correspondence with an Omani counts, right?

Remaining Asian countries:
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, North Korea, Kyrgyztan, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Qatar, Syria, Tajikistan, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen

Kosovo’s independence adds one more to the list!

Remaining European countries:
Andorra, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican

Ha, like an hour after I typed this, I met another South African for real. So it’s legit.

And I discovered that another guy, who currently lives in the southern U.S. and sounds just like a good ol’ boy, is actually from Honduras and still holds Honduran citizenship! So that gets checked off.

Remaining North/Central American countries:
Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago

Just realized New Zealand was still on the list. I know a coupla people from there, so I’m crossing it off.

Remaining Australia/Oceania countries:
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

I feel a little bad about this one because we didn’t really meet, but I spoke before a small group including a South African, and I haven’t progressed on this goal in a while, so I’m counting it.

Remaining African countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe

I met a guy from Zambia!!!!

Remaining countries:
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe