Final 8 Ring Leader - Countries

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Across
  1. 1. About a quarter of all overseas nurses come from this country, making it the world’s top supplier of nurses.
  2. 3. Caño Cristales, a river in this South American country, is referred to as the “liquid rainbow” because of its many vivid colors, which are produced from the reproductive process of aquatic plants.
  3. 5. This European nation is the most visited country in the world with 89 million annual tourists.
  4. 7. This African nation is a birder’s paradise. With more than 1,000 species, it contains 60 percent of Africa’s birds and 11 percent of the world’s avian population.
  5. 8. There are 63 million pairs of chopsticks or 126 million single sticks manufactured in this country every year
Down
  1. 2. gave the world its sweet tooth. Although sugarcane originated in Southeast Asia, it was first chemically refined about 2,500 years ago in India.
  2. 4. This Southeast Asian country is one of only three in the world, along with Liberia and the United States, that does not use the metric system.
  3. 6. There’s a small city called Sialkot in this South Asian country that produces 40 percent of the world’s soccer balls.