So if you’ve wondered whether haricots verts (Ah-ree-koh VERH) is just a gourmet way of saying “green beans,” the answer is yes, and no.

BBC

Most of the world’s green beans are harvested in China, followed by Indonesia, India and Turkey. Thailand, Egypt, Spain, Morocco, Italy and Bangladesh complete the top 10.

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North America

Central America

Caribbean

South America

Northern Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

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Southern Africa

Northern Africa

Western Africa

Central Africa

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Russia

Central Asia

Western Asia

Southern Asia

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Australasia

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Resources - Crops

Population Year 2018

Agricultural Workers

Technical Notes

Territory size is proportional to the green beans harvested there in 2016.

Data sources
This map uses data by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

All modification to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

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