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Countries That Grow the Most Cocoa Quiz

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  1. Ivory Coast 1,890,442 t
    Cocoa makes up about 40% of Ivory Coast's export income.
  2. Indonesia 632,702 t
    Indonesia's four biggest cocoa-growing provinces are all on the island of Sulawesi.
  3. Ghana 530,000 t
    Tetteh Quarshie is credited with bringing cocoa beans to Ghana from Fernando Po in 1876.
  4. Ecuador 403,699 t
    Cacao was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago in what is now southeast Ecuador.
  5. Nigeria 350,000 t
    Cocoa is Nigeria's leading agricultural export.
  6. Cameroon 320,000 t
    Cocoa was introduced to Cameroon in 1886-87, when it was a German colony.
  7. Brazil 297,509 t
    After witches' broom disease reached Bahia in 1989, its cocoa output fell by about three-quarters.
  8. Peru 157,253 t
    Pure Nacional cacao, thought wiped out by disease in 1916, was rediscovered in Peru in 2007.
  9. Sierra Leone 93,750 t
    Its capital, Freetown, was founded in 1792 as a settlement for freed African Americans.
  10. Colombia 67,678 t
    Colombian hot chocolate is often served with soft farmer's cheese on top.
  11. Dominican Republic 57,461 t
    The Dominican Republic is a world leader in exports of organic cocoa.
  12. Uganda 55,000 t
    Bundibugyo district, on the border with DR Congo, grows more cocoa than anywhere else in Uganda.
  13. DR Congo 50,000 t
    Most of its cocoa is grown in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.
  14. Papua New Guinea 45,000 t
    Farmers there traditionally dried cocoa beans over wood fires, giving them a smoky taste.
  15. India 30,388 t
    Andhra Pradesh and Kerala grow more than three-quarters of India's cocoa.
  16. Liberia 30,000 t
    Liberia's capital, Monrovia, was named in 1824 after US President James Monroe.
  17. Venezuela 29,383 t
    Chuao, a village famous for its cacao, can only be reached by boat.
  18. Mexico 28,448 t
    Aztec emperor Moctezuma II reportedly drank only chocolate at meals, from a golden goblet.
  19. Togo 25,000 t
    The capital, Lomé, runs right up to the border with Ghana.
  20. Guinea 24,222 t
    The Niger River rises in Guinea just 240 km from the Atlantic, then flows inland.
  21. Madagascar 21,000 t
    Cocoa is the main crop around Ambanja, on the Sambirano River in northern Madagascar.
  22. Republic of the Congo 15,000 t
    Its capital, Brazzaville, faces Kinshasa directly across the Congo River.
  23. Tanzania 15,000 t
    Kyela district, on the shore of Lake Nyasa, grows about 80% of Tanzania's cocoa.
  24. Guatemala 11,701 t
    The word cacao comes from kakaw, used in Maya languages such as Guatemala's K'iche'.
  25. Philippines 10,844 t
    Cacao reached the Philippines from Mexico aboard a Spanish galleon.

Source: FAOSTAT: Crops and livestock products, cocoa beans production · as of 2024

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