Question of the Day

Q:        What do the following counties have in common?  (See answer at the bottom.)

	Hungary	9,933,173
	Sweden	9,631,261
	Azerbaijan	9,514,887
	Serbia	9,468,378
	United Arab Emirates	9,445,624
	Belarus	9,307,609
	Austria	8,526,429
	Tajikistan	8,408,947
	Honduras	8,260,749
	Switzerland	8,157,896
	Israel	7,822,107
	Jordan	7,504,812
	Papua New Guinea	7,476,108
	Hong Kong	7,259,569
	Bulgaria	7,167,998
	Togo	6,993,244
	Paraguay	6,917,579
	Laos	6,894,098
	Eritrea	6,536,176
	El Salvador	6,383,752
	Libya	6,253,452
	Sierra Leone	6,205,382
	Nicaragua	6,169,269
	Denmark	5,640,184
	Kyrgyzstan	5,625,015
	Singapore	5,517,102
	Slovakia	5,454,154
	Finland	5,443,497
	Turkmenistan	5,307,171
	Norway	5,091,924
	Lebanon	4,965,914
	Costa Rica	4,937,755
	Central African Republic	4,709,203
	Ireland	4,677,340
	Congo	4,558,594
	New Zealand	4,551,349
	State of Palestine	4,436,411
	Liberia	4,396,873
	Georgia	4,322,842
	Croatia	4,272,044
	Mauritania	3,984,457
	Oman	3,926,492
	Panama	3,926,017
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,824,746
	Puerto Rico	3,683,601
	Kuwait	3,479,371
	Moldova	3,461,380
	Uruguay	3,418,694
	Albania	3,185,413
	Lithuania	3,008,287
	Armenia	2,983,990
	Mongolia	2,881,415
	Jamaica	2,798,837
	Namibia	2,347,988
	Qatar	2,267,916
	Macedonia	2,108,434
	Lesotho	2,097,511
	Slovenia	2,075,592
	Latvia	2,041,111
	Botswana	2,038,587
	Gambia	1,908,954
	Guinea-Bissau	1,745,798
	Gabon	1,711,294
	Trinidad and Tobago	1,344,235
	Bahrain	1,344,111
	Estonia	1,283,771
	Swaziland	1,267,704
	Mauritius	1,249,151
	Cyprus	1,153,058
	Timor-Leste	1,152,439
	Fiji	887,027
	Djibouti	886,313
	Réunion	885,328
	Guyana	803,677
	Equatorial Guinea	778,061
	Bhutan	765,552
	Comoros	752,438
	Montenegro	621,542
	Western Sahara	585,646
	Macau	575,481
	Solomon Islands	572,865
	Suriname	543,925
	Luxembourg	536,761
	Cape Verde	503,637
	Guadeloupe	468,016
	Malta	430,146
	Brunei	423,205
	Martinique	404,705
	Bahamas	382,571
	Maldives	351,572
	Belize	339,758
	Iceland	333,135
	Barbados	286,066
	French Polynesia	279,835
	New Caledonia	259,824
	Vanuatu	258,301
	French Guiana	255,455
	Mayotte	228,070
	Sao Tome and Principe	197,882
	Samoa	191,831
	Saint Lucia	183,598
	Guam	167,546
	Channel Islands	162,778
	Curaçao	161,836
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,371
	United States Virgin Islands	106,792
	Grenada	106,303
	Tonga	105,782
	Kiribati	103,942
	Micronesia	103,903
	Aruba	103,431
	Seychelles	93,306
	Antigua and Barbuda	90,903

A:        Each has a total population that is less than the ten million Syrians who have been displaced inside and outside their country since their President Bashar al Assad began his civil war to cling to power in March 2011.  *

(*Refugee statistics: http://www.unhcr.org/53ff76c99.html. Some estimates place the total number of displaced Syrians as high as 12,500,000.)