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Culture of Italy

Culture of Italy: the arts, languages, family customs, and food traditions of the Italian peninsula. Key facts: UNESCO intangible heritage listing of Italian cooking (2025), 62 World Heritage sites, regional dialects, opera, and the passeggiata.

Culture of Korea

The culture of Korea is the heritage of the Korean people on the Korean Peninsula, known for hanbok dress unchanged in structure for about 5,000 years and Goryeo-era ceramics and printing.

Culture of Maharashtra

Culture of Maharashtra: the composite Marathi-speaking culture of western India, rooted in the Marathi language (classical status 2024), Varkari saint tradition, Maratha history, sub-regional folk arts like Lavani, Powada and Tamasha, and the State Cultural Policy 2024.

Culture of Malaysia

The culture of Malaysia, also called Malaysian culture, is the multi-ethnic blend of Malay, Chinese, Indian, and indigenous ways of life, languages, religions, and food.

Culture of Mexico

Culture of Mexico: mestizo culture formed from Indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish colonial roots. Spanish and 68 Indigenous languages, Day of the Dead, UNESCO-recognized cuisine, national symbols, and federal cultural policy.

Culture of Nigeria

Culture of Nigeria: the way of life of over 250 ethnic groups, also called Nigerian cultural heritage. Shaped by Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo traditions, about 50/50 Muslim-Christian religion, the 1988 National Cultural Policy, Nok-to-Benin art, Nollywood, and UNESCO-listed heritage.

Culture of Pakistan

Culture of Pakistan (ثقافت پاکستان), Pakistani culture and society: a multi-ethnic Muslim society with over 70 languages, Sufi shrines and qawwali, Eid and Shandur festivals, shalwar-kameez, truck art and Ajrak, and Coke Studio's music reach.

Culture of Rajasthan

Culture of Rajasthan: folk and courtly arts, forts and palaces, dialects, cuisine, and fairs of the Thar Desert state; Kalbelia dance on UNESCO's Intangible Heritage list, nine World Heritage Sites, tourism around 12% of state GDP.

Culture of Saudi Arabia

Culture of Saudi Arabia: the social values, Ardah sword dance, coffee-and-dates hospitality, UNESCO intangible heritage, Jenadriyah festival, and Vision 2030-era cultural opening of the kingdom's 13 Arabic-speaking regions.

Culture of Singapore

Culture of Singapore: the multicultural, multilingual way of life of a city-state about 74% Chinese. Four official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil), CMIO racial categories, UNESCO-listed hawker culture (2020), Peranakan heritage, and state-managed integration policies distinguish it.

Culture of Spain

Culture of Spain: the layered Iberian tradition shaped by Roman, Islamic, Jewish and Christian societies. Known as Spanish culture, with Castilian plus Catalan, Galician and Basque; 17 autonomous communities, 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Siglo de Oro, and 12 October national day.

Culture of Telangana

Culture of Telangana: the composite Deccan-Hyderabad culture of India's youngest state (formed 2014), defined by state festivals Bathukamma and Bonalu, Telugu-Urdu bilingual heritage, Kakatiya-Nizam artistic legacy, and tribal Medaram Jatara.

Culture of Thailand

Culture of Thailand (วัฒนธรรมไทย, wathanatham thai): the blended Buddhist, Brahman-Hindu, and spirit-belief lifeways of Thailand's many ethnic groups, covering communal sap dining, UNESCO-listed Songkran, and state soft-power promotion since 2023.

Culture of the Philippines

Culture of the Philippines: layered Austronesian, Islamic, Hispanic, Chinese, and American traditions across 7,100 islands; governed culturally by the NCCA under RA 7356, with heritage law RA 10066 expanded by the 2023 Cultural Mapping Act.

Culture of the Southern United States

Culture of the Southern United States: regional culture of the American South, also called southern culture or the Deep South, formed around plantation slavery, evangelical religion, honor codes, barbecue, and Black American music and food, now spreading nationally while changing through immigration and migration.

Culture of the United Arab Emirates

Culture of the United Arab Emirates: Emirati culture rooted in Arabian Islamic traditions, hospitality, Al-Ayyala, falconry, and pearl-diving heritage, within a 200-nationality multicultural society; Al Ain World Heritage site and 21 UNESCO intangible heritage elements.

Culture of the United Kingdom

Culture of the United Kingdom: arts, languages, religion, sport and everyday customs of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; also called British culture, shaped by Roman, Norman and industrial-era history.

Culture of the United States

Culture of the United States: Western, English-based national culture shaped by European, African, Native American, and immigrant influences; marked by individualism, religiosity, regional diversity, and globally exported entertainment and technology.

Culture of Ukraine

Culture of Ukraine: the language, literature, folk arts, cuisine, and heritage of Ukraine. Key facts: independence 1991, Soviet suppression and Ukrainization 1923–33, derussification, UNESCO heritage, wartime cultural damage.

Culture of Uttar Pradesh

Culture of Uttar Pradesh, the cultural heritage of India's most populous state, spanning the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, languages such as Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and Braj, crafts like Lucknow chikankari and Banarasi silk, the Taj Mahal and Agra's three UNESCO sites, and festivals including Taj Mahotsav and Ayodhya's Deepotsav.

Culture of Vietnam

Culture of Vietnam (văn hóa Việt Nam): the beliefs, customs, language, and arts of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, layered from Đông Sơn wet-rice origins through Chinese and Western influence, with UNESCO-listed intangible heritage such as Ca trù and gong culture.

Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate)

Cultured corn starch (Corynebacterium fermentate), also called corn sauce, is corn starch hydrolyzed by food-grade enzymes and fermented by Corynebacterium glutamicum or C. stationis; Nestlé notified FDA as GRAS in GRN 792 and 793, closed April 26, 2019, for savory foods at 0.76% or 0.25%.

Culver's

Culver's is an American fast-casual chain founded July 18, 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin by Craig and Lea Culver, known for ButterBurgers and Fresh Frozen Custard, with 1,041 restaurants in 26 states.

Cumberland sausage

Cumberland sausage: English pork sausage from Cumbria, sold as an unlinked spiral coil, coarse-cut, heavily peppered. Protected as Traditional Cumberland Sausage (PGI) since EU registration in March 2011.

Cumbi

Cumbi, also spelled qompi or gompi, was the finest cloth of the Inca Empire, a double-faced tapestry weave of camelid fiber and cotton reserved for the ruler and nobility.

Cummerbund

Cummerbund (kamarband, کمربند): broad pleated waist sash of South Asian origin, adopted by 19th-century British officers in India, now black-tie formalwear worn pleats-up; since 2026 also a fashion trend.

Cup

Cup: a small open drinking vessel, from Old English cuppe via Late Latin cuppa. Covers skull-cup and skaal roots, wassail and loving cup customs, Inka queros, and the Dixie and SOLO disposable cups born of germ campaigns.

Cup Noodles

Cup Noodles (カップヌードル) is Nissin's instant ramen in a foam cup, launched September 18, 1971 by Momofuku Ando as the world's first cup-type noodles; over 50 billion servings sold in 100 countries.

Cupcake

Cupcake: a small individual cake baked in a muffin tin, named for the early 19th-century "cup cake" measured by the cup; first printed by Eliza Leslie in 1828; gourmet boom from Magnolia Bakery, 1996.

Curaçao (liqueur)

Curaçao is an orange liqueur first made with dried laraha orange peel from the Caribbean island of Curaçao, used in drinks like the Margarita and Long Island Iced Tea.