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Below is a list of where the Waymarks were as of  this morning.  If a location is not listed the country had no Waymarks or the search failed for that country.

Afghanistan	2		Peru	1
Albania	1		Philippines	2
Antarctica	6		Poland	7
Aruba	1		Portugal	261
Australia - Australian Capital Territory	34		Puerto Rico	3
Australia - New South Wales	57		Qatar	2
Australia - Northern Territory	10		Russia	4
Australia - Queensland	13		Singapore	3
Australia - South Australia	12		Slovakia	59
Australia - Tasmania	8		Slovenia	2
Australia - Victoria	23		South Africa	67
Australia - Western Australia	41		South Georgia and Sandwich Islands	1
Austria	83		Spain	320
Bahamas	1		Svalbard and Jan Mayen	1
Belarus	1		Sweden	58
Belgium	74		Switzerland	104
Bermuda	1		Taiwan	7
Bolivia	1		Tanzania	1
Brazil	460		Thailand	5
Cambodia	1		Tunisia	2
Canada - Alberta	281		Turkey	3
Canada - British Columbia	411		Ukraine	4
Canada - Manitoba	17		United Arab Emirates	1
Canada - New Brunswick	27		United Kingdom	1118
Canada - Newfoundland	14		US - Alabama	191
Canada - Northwest Territories	2		US - Alaska	25
Canada - Nova Scotia	19		US - Arizona	315
Canada - Ontario	1439		US - Arkansas	177
Canada - Prince Edward Island	5		US - California	3318
Canada - Quebec	33		US - Colorado	390
Canada - Saskatchewan	49	v	US - Connecticut	54
Canada - Yukon Territory	1		US - Delaware	98
Cayman Islands	5		US - District of Columbia	123
Chile	2		US - Florida	1060
China	8		US - Georgia	1868
Columbia	5		US - Hawaii	165
Costa Rica	6		US - Idaho	475
Croatia	4		US - Illinois	1065
Cyprus	1		US - Indiana	495
Czech Republic	33		US - Iowa	368
Denmark	33		US - Kansas	87
Estonia	11		US - Kentucky	786
Faroe Islands	1		US - Louisiana	217
Finland	19		US - Maine	239
France	134		US - Maryland	420
Germany	610		US - Massachusetts	817
Greece	25		US - Michigan	2045
Greenland	1		US - Minnesota	129
Guatemala	1		US - Mississippi	94
Honduras	2		US - Missouri	1877
Hong Kong	2		US - Montana	107
Hungary	11		US - Nebraska	443
Iceland	2		US - Nevada	199
Indonesia	1		US - New Hampshire	646
Iran	6		US - New Jersey	528
Iraq	1		US - New Mexico	301
Ireland	29		US - New York	1461
Italy	49		US - North Carolina	1631
Jamaica	7		US - North Dakota	43
Japan	49		US - Ohio	1021
Jordan	2		US - Oklahoma	504
Kenya	1		US - Oregon	1584
Laos	1		US - Pennsylvania	2484
Liechtenstein	1		US - Rhode Island	43
Lithuania	2		US - South Carolina	751
Luxembourg	1		US - South Dakota	539
Macau	2		US - Tennessee	670
Malaysia	2		US - Texas	2043
Malta	8		US - Utah	554
Mauritius	2		US - Vermont	151
Mexico	20		US - Virginia	1303
Monaco	1		US - Washington	1620
Netherlands	770		US - West Virginia	197
Netherlands Antilles	1		US - Wisconsin	302
New Zealand - North Island	10		US - Wyoming	110
New Zealand - South Island	52		Vanuatu	1
Norway	66		Vatican City State	1
Oman	2		Vietnam	1
Panama	10		Zambia	1

A very interesting list.  Thanks, Bruce. I expect to add to the Russia numbers in late summer. We are doing a touristy type trip cruising the rivers from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The caching possibilities are very limited but just about everything we see will be waymarkable. The only waymark I've found in that territory is a MacDonald's in Moscow.

NevaP:

A very interesting list.  Thanks, Bruce. I expect to add to the Russia numbers in late summer. We are doing a touristy type trip cruising the rivers from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The caching possibilities are very limited but just about everything we see will be waymarkable. The only waymark I've found in that territory is a MacDonald's in Moscow.

I will add some to your home state list this week.  I have to be there Friday morning to move my daughter home for the summer.

Cool.. Ontario is around #11 in the world and #1 outside of the US...  I had no idea there were that many in my home province.

Thanks Bruce

BQ

Thanks for the list BruceS, I can't believe how many waymarks are in the US compared to the rest of the world. Hopefully South Africa will catch up soon.

Thanks, that list is interesting to study.  I'm proud that Pennsylvania has more waymarks than any other state besides California.  There is a lot to see here.

Sometime if I get really bored, I'll ask Keystone to compare these figures to virtual cache submissions.  My hypothesis is that there are more waymarks in most places, and that they have a 90% plus chance of being published.  In contrast, over the period from 2001 to 2005, the odds of getting a virtual cache published likely averaged out to around 33% in most places, the total number listed in each place is likely lower, and the angst factor was decidedly higher.

These are good number to throw at the "why are virtuals dead?" crowd.  Thousands of interesting places to visit, just no smiley face.

I could ask Keystone for you if you are not getting along with him.  He once stuck me with the unpleasant task of working with CCCouparAgency {kidding of course... Lynn is a wonderful gal!}

However I do not agree with your comment on "Just no smiley face".  Someone tried that one on me once, until I pointed out that I have earned dozens of really cool and unique icons that reflect my personal tastes and interests.  Getting a smiley for a 'ghost' is sooooo generic.

And like you say, the educational and interest level in many Waymarks far exceeds the joy found in most of the Virtuals that I've done.

BQ

Well, I did have that chat with Keystone, and he noted something from his work as a forum moderator over in the old-fashioned forum where people talk about signing soggy pieces of paper.

The latest "bring back virtuals" thread was started by a resident of the Province of Ontario.  Using the helpful statistics provide by BruceS and the information available to Keystone, I can report the following:

Total number of virtual caches EVER listed in Ontario, 2000-2005:  70*

Odds of getting a virtual cache listed in Ontario: less than one in three.

Total number of waymarks listed in Ontario over the past 21 months:  1,439**

Odds of getting a waymark listed in Ontario: somewhere north of 90%.

*The last virtual published in Ontario belongs to BQ.  ** Prolly most of the 1,439 waymarks, too!

the leprechauns:

Well, I did have that chat with Keystone, and he noted something from his work as a forum moderator over in the old-fashioned forum where people talk about signing soggy pieces of paper.

The latest "bring back virtuals" thread was started by a resident of the Province of Ontario.  Using the helpful statistics provide by BruceS and the information available to Keystone, I can report the following:

Total number of virtual caches EVER listed in Ontario, 2000-2005:  70*

Odds of getting a virtual cache listed in Ontario: less than one in three.

Total number of waymarks listed in Ontario over the past 21 months:  1,439**

Odds of getting a waymark listed in Ontario: somewhere north of 90%.

*The last virtual published in Ontario belongs to BQ.  ** Prolly most of the 1,439 waymarks, too!

Just for accuracy....

Total number of Virtuals EVER listed in Ontario is 70.. well done you... still active Virtuals 56 (I've found 30 of them so far)

And as for your stats on me....

* The last Virtual published in "CANADA" belongs to BQ  ** Of the 1439, I created 447 of them.  I have two WARmarks as I call them in NY and almost made one the day I met you too Lep!  There was a "Peace Pole" right outside the large barn we were in playing Scrabble, but I didn't want to insult any of my new American friends by swiping it at Fragglestock.

BQ

I was at Crown Surplus here in Calgary a couple of days ago and waymarked a few locations.  Doing a quick check on the home page this "Military Surplus Store" looks like number 45,000 and the number still ticks on today.

A quick check shows that in the last 12 days 1700 new waymarks should be on the list.

Congratulations everyone!!!

KE