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Jim, Here is a list of some countries which currently drive on the left: Pakistsan, India, Bangladesh, SriLanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, HongKong(China), South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius, Britain, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Trinidad and Tabago, Guyana and Jamaica. These countries are all larger in area than Luxembourg and larger in population, too. This list does not include many other left driving independent sovereign states which are UN members but which are tiny island states like Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Maldives, Seychelles, etc. And, yes, Indonesia has always driven on the left as have Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Mozambique, Japan, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal all of which were not British colonies. In fact, the last four-named were never colonised by any power. (I suppose, the Americans took over Japan for a few years from 1945 and the Japanese occupied Thailand for a couple of years during World War II but this wasn't really colonisation.) Regards, Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia. Jim Adney wrote: > On 21 Sep 2001, at 15:17, Simon Glen wrote: > > > There are more than 40 different independent sovereign nations which > > drive on the "wrong" side of the road (i.e. the left) and they have a > > combined population of more than 1.8 billion which is roughly one > > third of the world's population. Some of the biggest drive on the > > left countries in terms of vehicle usage and population would be > > India, Pakistan, South Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, > > Indonesia and Japan. And, VWType3s were sold in each of them except > > for India. > > 40 certainly sounds like a lot until you start counting up the > countries that drive on the right. It's clearly an arbitrary choice > which gets fixed by tradition. I'm actually surprised that you think > there are 40. I'd be interested in seeing the list. > > Of all the countries that drive on the left, aren't all of them former > parts of the British empire except for Japan? This makes it pretty > clear where this got inherited. I don't know about Indonesia; I didn't > know that they drove on the left, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe