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<blockquote data-quote="wayner" data-source="post: 607492" data-attributes="member: 39097"><p>@stomer2010 - I don't think sovereign countries counts as much as nations that are playing the game, and I think you are forgetting the fact that "Americas" includes the Caribbean and other island rugby unions. The IRB rankings page shows 100 countries. By my count 19 of the 100 ranked countries are in the Americas and 15 are in Africa. So there may be 44 countries in Africa but only a third of them appear to play the game whereas pretty much all of the countries in N&S America do play as do several Caribbean nations thanks to their colonial heritage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wayner, post: 607492, member: 39097"] @stomer2010 - I don't think sovereign countries counts as much as nations that are playing the game, and I think you are forgetting the fact that "Americas" includes the Caribbean and other island rugby unions. The IRB rankings page shows 100 countries. By my count 19 of the 100 ranked countries are in the Americas and 15 are in Africa. So there may be 44 countries in Africa but only a third of them appear to play the game whereas pretty much all of the countries in N&S America do play as do several Caribbean nations thanks to their colonial heritage. [/QUOTE]
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