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Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world (by a lot) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 month ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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I'd thought it was either somewhere in the Middle East or a big country like Russia

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The CIA also has them as the country with largest reserves in their World Factbook

As a matter of fact, according to the looking at the Wikipedia article OP posted I just did, BP, the CIA, the EIA and OPEC all agree it's above 300 billion barrels, with less than 1% variation between them.

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Am I crazy or did they forget to label Nigeria in the black and white map?