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Culture of Australia
Culture of Australia: shaped by the world's oldest continuous living cultures, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions, and multicultural immigration. Distinguished by NAIDOC Week, Garma, 535 annual music festivals, and the Revive national cultural policy.
Culture of Brazil
Culture of Brazil: the hybrid national culture formed by Indigenous, African, and Portuguese roots plus immigrant influences, expressed in festivals, religious syncretism, music, and cuisine, and protected through the 1988 Constitution, Iphan heritage registration, and UNESCO conventions.
Culture of Cambodia
Culture of Cambodia, also called Khmer culture: the language, Theravada Buddhist and Hindu-inflected traditions, Angkor-era architecture, and performing arts of the Khmer people, marked by five UNESCO World Heritage sites, seven intangible heritage elements, and post-1975 cultural revival.
Culture of Canada
Culture of Canada: national celebrations (Canada Day, Celebrate Canada season), a festival sector of roughly 200 major festivals, multiculturalism, Indigenous cultural days, and federal arts funding programs.
Culture of Cuba
Culture of Cuba: the island's Spanish-African creole culture with Chinese and Caribbean influences; Cuban Spanish, Santería, state-directed cultural policy since 1959, the 1961 P.M. ban, and a large diaspora in Miami, New York, Madrid, and Mexico City.
Culture of Egypt
Culture of Egypt: the continuous tradition spanning pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, and Islamic eras to the modern Arabic-speaking state. Also called Misr's civilization; known for Historic Cairo, Al-Azhar, Mahfouz's Nobel-winning literature, 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the 2025 Grand Egyptian Museum.
Culture of England
The culture of England, also called English culture, comprises the customs, language, and arts of England, shaped by settlement, Christianity, and union within the United Kingdom.
Culture of Eritrea
Culture of Eritrea: heritage of Eritrea's peoples, rooted in Aksum, with Tigrinya language, 1960s-rooted music, Italian-influenced cuisine, and the bun coffee ceremony (jebena, three rounds awel, kale'i, baraka) as its central daily ritual.
Culture of France
Culture of France: festivals (7,283 listed; 46% in deficit in 2024), national holidays (14 July since 1880, Fête de la musique 1982), state-led heritage protection since 1830, and live performance drawing 65.4 million spectators in 2024.
Culture of Germany
Culture of Germany: federal, regionally varied culture of ~83.6 million people, also known as deutsche Kultur. Marked by Länder cultural sovereignty, dialects, Tracht, secularization, immigration history (26%), and a strong culture of remembrance.
Culture of Hungary
Culture of Hungary (Hungarian culture, Magyar culture): the language, folk traditions, cuisine, festivals, and arts of Hungary and Hungarians abroad. Finno-Ugrian Magyar language, táncház dance houses, ten UNESCO intangible-heritage items, Sziget festival, tokaji aszú, and hungarikum register distinguish it.
Culture of India
Culture of India: millennia-old, highly diverse culture of 1.4 billion people; over 1,600 languages, 2,000 ethnic groups, Hindu majority (~80%), 45 UNESCO World Heritage sites, constitutional secularism under Hindu nationalist pressure.
Culture of Indonesia
Culture of Indonesia (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika): the diverse arts, languages, religions, and heritage of 1,300+ ethnic groups and 700+ languages, with 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites, 16 intangible heritage elements, and a dedicated Ministry of Culture since 2024.
Culture of Iran
Culture of Iran (فرهنگ ایران): the layered civilization of the Iranian plateau, blending pre-Islamic traditions like Nowruz with Islamic influence, marked by the Persian language and poetry, ethnic and linguistic diversity, taarof etiquette, and UNESCO-recognized heritage.
Culture of Ireland
Culture of Ireland: the island's food, drink, festivals and hospitality traditions. Rooted in Neolithic cattle farming and the potato, now defined by dairy and grass-fed beef exports, Blas na hÉireann awards, Michelin-starred restaurants and the diaspora-shaped St Patrick's Day.
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.