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194 shown
  1. 1Mauritius1
  2. 1New Zealand1
  3. 1Vanuatu1
  4. 1Namibia1
  5. 1Taiwan1
  6. 1Slovenia1
  7. 1Romania1
  8. 1Samoa1
  9. 1Naoero1
  10. 1San Marino1
  11. 1Portugal1
  12. 1Norway1
  13. 1Suriname1
  14. 1Netherlands1
  15. 1Uruguay1
  16. 1United States1
  17. 1Seychelles1
  18. 1South Africa1
  19. 1Palau1
  20. 1Mongolia1
  21. 1Papua New Guinea1
  22. 1Tonga1
  23. 1St. Vincent and the Grenadines1
  24. 1Sao Tome and Principe1
  25. 1Sweden1
  26. 1Trinidad and Tobago1
  27. 1Panama1
  28. 1Poland1
  29. 1Tuvalu1
  30. 1Iceland1
  31. 1Korea, Rep.1
  32. 1Liechtenstein1
  33. 1Monaco1
  34. 1Kiribati1
  35. 1Ghana1
  36. 1Malta1
  37. 1Jamaica1
  38. 1Germany1
  39. 1Italy1
  40. 1United Kingdom1
  41. 1Ireland1
  42. 1Estonia1
  43. 1Micronesia, Fed. Sts.1
  44. 1France1
  45. 1Fiji1
  46. 1Marshall Islands1
  47. 1Dominica1
  48. 1St. Kitts and Nevis1
  49. 1St. Lucia1
  50. 1Spain1
  51. 1Dominican Republic1
  52. 1Lithuania1
  53. 1Croatia1
  54. 1Finland1
  55. 1Luxembourg1
  56. 1Guyana1
  57. 1Latvia1
  58. 1Grenada1
  59. 1Denmark1
  60. 1Greece1
  61. 1Japan1
  62. 1Cyprus1
  63. 1Bulgaria1
  64. 1Barbados1
  65. 1Canada1
  66. 1Bahamas, The1
  67. 1Belize1
  68. 1Switzerland1
  69. 1Antigua and Barbuda1
  70. 1Andorra1
  71. 1Czechia1
  72. 1Cabo Verde1
  73. 1Costa Rica1
  74. 1Argentina1
  75. 1Australia1
  76. 1Belgium1
  77. 1Chile1
  78. 1Austria1
  79. 1Brazil1
  80. 2Cuba0
  81. 2China0
  82. 2Colombia0
  83. 2Azerbaijan0
  84. 2Afghanistan0
  85. 2Congo, Dem. Rep.0
  86. 2Bosnia and Herzegovina0
  87. 2Bangladesh0
  88. 2Burundi0
  89. 2Armenia0
  90. 2Bhutan0
  91. 2United Arab Emirates0
  92. 2Brunei Darussalam0
  93. 2Congo, Rep.0
  94. 2Benin0
  95. 2Cameroon0
  96. 2Central African Republic0
  97. 2Angola0
  98. 2Bahrain0
  99. 2Botswana0
  100. 2Bolivia0
  101. 2Comoros0
  102. 2Albania0
  103. 2Burkina Faso0
  104. 2Cote d'Ivoire0
  105. 2Belarus0
  106. 2Kyrgyz Republic0
  107. 2Kazakhstan0
  108. 2Libya0
  109. 2Israel0
  110. 2Lebanon0
  111. 2Iraq0
  112. 2Iran, Islamic Rep.0
  113. 2Kenya0
  114. 2Lao PDR0
  115. 2India0
  116. 2Sri Lanka0
  117. 2Indonesia0
  118. 2Lesotho0
  119. 2Hungary0
  120. 2Haiti0
  121. 2Honduras0
  122. 2Algeria0
  123. 2Guatemala0
  124. 2Cambodia0
  125. 2Mali0
  126. 2Morocco0
  127. 2Equatorial Guinea0
  128. 2Guinea-Bissau0
  129. 2Myanmar0
  130. 2Ecuador0
  131. 2Gambia, The0
  132. 2Guinea0
  133. 2Moldova0
  134. 2Kuwait0
  135. 2Georgia0
  136. 2Mexico0
  137. 2North Macedonia0
  138. 2Gabon0
  139. 2Madagascar0
  140. 2Egypt, Arab Rep.0
  141. 2Eritrea0
  142. 2Maldives0
  143. 2Ethiopia0
  144. 2Jordan0
  145. 2Djibouti0
  146. 2Liberia0
  147. 2Uganda0
  148. 2Mauritania0
  149. 2Malawi0
  150. 2Venezuela, RB0
  151. 2Malaysia0
  152. 2Uzbekistan0
  153. 2Niger0
  154. 2Nigeria0
  155. 2Nicaragua0
  156. 2Ukraine0
  157. 2Nepal0
  158. 2Tanzania0
  159. 2Zambia0
  160. 2Turkiye0
  161. 2Oman0
  162. 2Tunisia0
  163. 2Pakistan0
  164. 2Peru0
  165. 2Philippines0
  166. 2Timor-Leste0
  167. 2Turkmenistan0
  168. 2Korea, Dem. People's Rep.0
  169. 2Tajikistan0
  170. 2Thailand0
  171. 2Paraguay0
  172. 2Qatar0
  173. 2Togo0
  174. 2Chad0
  175. 2Russian Federation0
  176. 2Syrian Arab Republic0
  177. 2Rwanda0
  178. 2Eswatini0
  179. 2Saudi Arabia0
  180. 2Sudan0
  181. 2Senegal0
  182. 2Singapore0
  183. 2Slovak Republic0
  184. 2Zimbabwe0
  185. 2Montenegro0
  186. 2Somalia, Fed. Rep.0
  187. 2Serbia0
  188. 2South Sudan0
  189. 2El Salvador0
  190. 2Sierra Leone0
  191. 2Solomon Islands0
  192. 2Viet Nam0
  193. 2Mozambique0
  194. 2Yemen, Rep.0

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