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A place does not need every answer before it belongs here. Some countries are richly connected; others are just beginning to take shape.

6 continents represented
192 countries represented
191 countries with research

192 countries in view

Continent

Africa

54 countries Open continent →
Taking shape DZ / DZA

Algeria

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Algeria. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape AO / AGO

Angola

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Angola. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape BJ / BEN

Benin

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Benin. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape BW / BWA

Botswana

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Botswana. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape BF / BFA

Burkina Faso

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Burkina Faso. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape BI / BDI

Burundi

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Burundi. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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More to discover CV / CPV

Cabo Verde

Initial Honey Chronicles seed for Cabo Verde. This research pass did not establish enough country-specific evidence to safely populate the honey landscape beyond documented sources and…

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Taking shape CM / CMR

Cameroon

Cameroon has one exceptionally strong Honey Chronicles anchor: Oku White Honey, whose Kilum-Ijim production landscape and protected geographical indication are documented by WIPO/OAPI. Other national production…

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Taking shape CF / CAF

Central African Republic

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Central African Republic. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without…

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Taking shape TD / TCD

Chad

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Chad. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape KM / COM

Comoros

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Comoros. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape CI / CIV

Côte d'Ivoire

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Côte d’Ivoire. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape CD / COD

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Democratic Republic of the Congo. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region…

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Taking shape DJ / DJI

Djibouti

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Djibouti. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape EG / EGY

Egypt

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Egypt. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GQ / GNQ

Equatorial Guinea

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Equatorial Guinea. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape ER / ERI

Eritrea

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Eritrea. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape SZ / SWZ

Eswatini

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Eswatini. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ET / ETH

Ethiopia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Ethiopia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GA / GAB

Gabon

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Gabon. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GH / GHA

Ghana

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Ghana. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GN / GIN

Guinea

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Guinea. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GW / GNB

Guinea-Bissau

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Guinea-Bissau. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape KE / KEN

Kenya

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Kenya. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape LS / LSO

Lesotho

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Lesotho. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape LR / LBR

Liberia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Liberia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape LY / LBY

Libya

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Libya. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape MG / MDG

Madagascar

Madagascar is unusually important for Honey Chronicles because its endemic Apis mellifera unicolor population is a first-class part of honey provenance. Commercial honey networks also connect…

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Taking shape MW / MWI

Malawi

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Malawi. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ML / MLI

Mali

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Mali. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape MR / MRT

Mauritania

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Mauritania. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape MU / MUS

Mauritius

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Mauritius. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape MA / MAR

Morocco

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Morocco. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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More to discover MZ / MOZ

Mozambique

Initial Honey Chronicles seed for Mozambique. This research pass did not establish enough country-specific evidence to safely populate the honey landscape beyond documented sources and research…

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Taking shape NA / NAM

Namibia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Namibia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape NE / NER

Niger

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Niger. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape NG / NGA

Nigeria

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Nigeria. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape CG / COG

Republic of the Congo

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Republic of the Congo. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status…

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Taking shape RW / RWA

Rwanda

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Rwanda. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ST / STP

São Tomé and Príncipe

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for São Tomé and Príncipe. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status…

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Taking shape SN / SEN

Senegal

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Senegal. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape SC / SYC

Seychelles

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Seychelles. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape SL / SLE

Sierra Leone

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Sierra Leone. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape SO / SOM

Somalia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Somalia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ZA / ZAF

South Africa

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for South Africa. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape SS / SSD

South Sudan

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for South Sudan. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural…

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Taking shape SD / SDN

Sudan

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Sudan. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape TZ / TZA

Tanzania

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Tanzania. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape GM / GMB

The Gambia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Gambia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape TG / TGO

Togo

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Togo. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape TN / TUN

Tunisia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Tunisia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape UG / UGA

Uganda

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Uganda. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ZM / ZMB

Zambia

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Zambia. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Taking shape ZW / ZWE

Zimbabwe

Initial Honey Chronicles research seed for Zimbabwe. Evidence is preserved as research inventory; general beekeeping geography is not promoted to Honey Region status without product/ecological/cultural support.

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Asia

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Taking shape AF / AFG

Afghanistan

Afghanistan's honey landscape spans wild mountain honey and expanding managed apiculture. In Nuristan, traditional honey is associated with wild Apis dorsata living in high forest landscapes…

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Taking shape AM / ARM

Armenia

Armenia's honey map is strongly shaped by elevation, small apiaries and the Caucasus bee story. Scientific work confirms honey production in regions including Syunik and Shirak,…

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Taking shape AZ / AZE

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan combines a large modern beekeeping sector with unusually strong mountain-honey traditions. The State Statistical Committee reported 579,000 bee colonies in 30,601 holdings and 5,166.3 tonnes…

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Taking shape BH / BHR

Bahrain

Bahrain has a real but compact honey culture operating under extreme heat and limited forage. Current reporting centers on small and family apiaries rather than a…

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Taking shape BD / BGD

Bangladesh

Bangladesh's clearest Honey Region is the Sundarbans, where forest honey collection is tied to mangrove ecology, traditional honey collectors and wild Apis dorsata. The Bangladesh Department…

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Taking shape BT / BTN

Bhutan

Bhutan's honey story is unusually species-rich for a small Himalayan country. Current national reporting says more than 7,500 households were engaged in beekeeping in 2024 and…

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Taking shape BN / BRN

Brunei

Brunei's strongest current honey identity is kelulut: honey produced by native stingless bees. In 2025, government reporting described stingless-bee honey as the main One Village, One…

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Taking shape KH / KHM

Cambodia

Cambodia contains two distinct honey systems: managed beekeeping and wild honey collection. Its clearest museum-grade landscape is Mondulkiri, where Bunong/Pnong Indigenous honey hunters sustainably harvest honey…

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Taking shape CN / CHN

China

China is too large and biologically varied to be represented by one national honey identity. National industry reporting has long placed China among the world's largest…

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Taking shape CY / CYP

Cyprus

Cyprus has a compact but highly mobile beekeeping system. Official 2024 statistics recorded 681 registered beekeepers, 56,835 overwintering colonies and 369,740 kg of honey, while nearly…

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Taking shape IN / IND

India

India's honey map spans migratory commercial Apis mellifera beekeeping, native Apis cerana systems, wild honey bees, stingless bees and a growing protected-origin map. Government reporting put…

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Taking shape ID / IDN

Indonesia

Indonesia's honey landscape is fundamentally plural. Wild Apis dorsata forest-honey harvesting, managed Apis cerana and Apis mellifera, and an exceptionally diverse stingless-bee fauna all coexist across…

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Taking shape IR / IRN

Iran

Iran has one of Asia's largest managed beekeeping sectors and a strong native Bee identity. The Ministry of Agriculture's latest census reporting cited more than 10.2…

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Taking shape IQ / IRQ

Iraq

Iraq's honey map is sharply divided by ecology and recent history. In the north, scientific characterization of honeys from Dohuk and Erbil supports a Kurdish mountain-honey…

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Taking shape IL / ISR

Israel

Israel's honey industry is unusually regulated around limited nectar-forage resources and hive-placement permits. A 2024 Knesset market analysis counted about 529 licensed beekeepers and roughly 124,000…

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Taking shape JP / JPN

Japan

Japan's honey story has two parallel Bee systems: the native Japanese honey bee Apis cerana japonica and the higher-volume Western honey bee Apis mellifera. MAFF's latest…

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Taking shape JO / JOR

Jordan

Jordan's honey identity is shaped by flowering diversity, a strong local beekeeper culture and the native Syrian honey bee Apis mellifera syriaca. Department of Statistics reporting…

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Taking shape KZ / KAZ

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's honey map is dominated by the contrast between the biodiversity-rich Altai east and the broad southern and steppe landscapes. Ministry-linked 2026 reporting places national output…

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Taking shape KW / KWT

Kuwait

Kuwait's honey industry operates under extreme desert conditions and is small enough that local forage can become a very visible part of product identity. A KUNA…

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Taking shape KG / KGZ

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan's honey identity is inseparable from altitude. The country's best-known product is pale white mountain honey from the Tien Shan, especially At-Bashy in Naryn Region, where…

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Taking shape LA / LAO

Laos

Laos has a forest-honey culture built primarily around the native Asian honey bee Apis cerana and smallholder management rather than industrial-scale apiaries. Xieng Khouang is the…

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Taking shape LB / LBN

Lebanon

Lebanon's honey landscape is shaped by extreme changes in altitude over short distances, allowing beekeepers to move colonies from coastal citrus forage to mountain polyfloral and…

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Taking shape MY / MYS

Malaysia

Malaysia is one of the world's most developed stingless-bee honey markets. Kelulut honey is produced by native Meliponini, with Heterotrigona itama among the most important commercial…

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Taking shape MV / MDV

Maldives

The Maldives is currently a research-gap country rather than a mature honey-production landscape. A 2017 report described a Maldivian family's tiny household harvest as the country's…

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Taking shape MN / MNG

Mongolia

Mongolia's modern beekeeping sector is relatively young and uses introduced Apis mellifera rather than a native honey-bee species. Its clearest Honey Chronicles landscape is Selenge Province,…

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Taking shape MM / MMR

Myanmar

Myanmar has one of Southeast Asia's more diverse honey systems, combining migratory commercial Apis mellifera beekeeping with traditional Apis cerana management and wild honey from Apis…

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Taking shape NP / NPL

Nepal

Nepal's honey story ranges from managed Apis cerana and Apis mellifera beekeeping to famous cliff-honey traditions built around wild Apis laboriosa. Government-derived figures summarized in a…

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Taking shape KP / PRK

North Korea

North Korea is intentionally kept sparse in this seed. Credible public data on national honey production, beekeeper counts, commercial Producers and modern Bee populations are limited.…

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Taking shape OM / OMN

Oman

Oman has a deep beekeeping tradition built around arid-land flowering cycles and two very different honey-bee systems: managed Apis mellifera and wild Apis florea, locally called…

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Taking shape PK / PAK

Pakistan

Pakistan supports one of South Asia's most varied honey systems, with managed Apis mellifera and Apis cerana alongside wild Apis dorsata and Apis florea. Ber/Sidr honey…

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Taking shape PS / PSE

Palestine

Palestinian beekeeping spans the West Bank and Gaza, but the two landscapes now carry very different stories. In the West Bank, honey remains a rural-livelihood and…

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Taking shape PH / PHL

Philippines

The Philippines has a biologically distinctive honey landscape in which Bee identity can be more important than floral source. Native stingless-bee honey—especially from Tetragonula biroi—has been…

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Taking shape QA / QAT

Qatar

Qatar has built a small but increasingly organized desert beekeeping sector around government-supported farms. Sidr is the dominant local honey, with Samur and spring honey harvested…

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Taking shape SA / SAU

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has one of the Arabian Peninsula's largest organized honey sectors. In May 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture reported 25,644 licensed beekeepers,…

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Taking shape SG / SGP

Singapore

Singapore's honey story is urban, rescue-driven and species-rich rather than agricultural at national scale. NParks identifies the Asian honey bee Apis cerana as Singapore's most common…

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Taking shape KR / KOR

South Korea

South Korea's commercial honey economy is dominated by Western honey bees and black-locust honey, while the native Asian honey bee Apis cerana supports a smaller, culturally…

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Taking shape LK / LKA

Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan beekeeping is still largely small-scale and centers on the Asian honey bee Apis cerana, with wild Apis dorsata and Apis florea adding separate forest…

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Taking shape SY / SYR

Syria

Syria's honey sector survived a devastating conflict and is now trying to rebuild under severe drought and forage pressure. The Agriculture Ministry reported more than 532,000…

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Taking shape TW / TWN

Taiwan

Taiwan's commercial honey culture is built around migratory beekeeping that follows a remarkably compact seasonal map. Longan and lychee honey dominate domestic production, with beekeepers moving…

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Taking shape TJ / TJK

Tajikistan

Tajikistan's beekeeping story is a mountain-livelihood story more than a finished map of named honey terroirs. Gorno-Badakhshan has strong documented honey potential and producer groups in…

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Taking shape TH / THA

Thailand

Thailand's honey landscape combines a major northern longan-honey economy with one of Southeast Asia's richest stingless-bee systems. Scientific longan-honey samples span Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang,…

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Taking shape TL / TLS

Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste's honey story is still emerging commercially, but culturally it is much older. Wild Apis dorsata migrations cross the Timor-Leste–Indonesia border through a landscape where honey…

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Taking shape TR / TUR

Turkey

Turkey—officially Türkiye—has one of the world's largest beekeeping sectors and one of Honey Chronicles' richest protected-honey maps. Official 2025 statistics record 96,646 beekeeping enterprises, 8,817,155 colonies…

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Taking shape TM / TKM

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is another intentionally conservative seed. Public evidence confirms a domestic beekeeping trade and named beekeeper-entrepreneurs, and 2026 customs rules explicitly recognize bee honey as both…

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Europe

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Taking shape AL / ALB

Albania

Albania has the sort of honey landscape that gets more interesting the closer you look. Mountain country, Mediterranean vegetation, chestnut forests, thyme, clover and pine all…

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Taking shape AD / AND

Andorra

Tiny Andorra may turn out to be one of Europe's most enjoyable honey countries for Atlas. Here, altitude can change a honey within only a few…

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Taking shape AT / AUT

Austria

Austria is big honey country built mostly from small beekeepers rather than giant operations. The Austrian agriculture ministry counted 36,369 beekeepers and 480,475 colonies in 2024,…

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Taking shape BY / BLR

Belarus

Belarus has one of the oldest living beekeeping stories in Europe. In the forests and wetlands of Polesia, families still maintain the tradition of tree beekeeping—keeping…

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Taking shape BE / BEL

Belgium

Belgium has a surprisingly strong honey story. In February 2025, Miel wallon became a protected geographical indication, tying the honey specifically to Wallonia and to a…

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Taking shape BA / BIH

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina has several very different honey stories packed into one small country. In the northwest, chestnut forests around Cazin and Bosanska Krupa produce honeys…

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Taking shape BG / BGR

Bulgaria

Bulgaria is serious honey country. Official agricultural statistics recorded 816,600 colonies in October 2023, with 659,000 used for honey production and 11,189 tonnes harvested that year.…

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Taking shape HR / HRV

Croatia

Croatia is almost a ready-made honey map. Instead of one nationally famous honey, it has a growing collection of place-protected honeys tied to very different landscapes:…

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Taking shape CZ / CZE

Czechia

Czechia's honey story is built less around a few giant producers and more around a dense culture of smaller beekeepers. One Czech study analyzed 5,987 honey…

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Taking shape DK / DNK

Denmark

Denmark offers three honey stories that barely resemble one another. On Jutland heathlands, bees gather heather nectar for dark, strongly flavored honey. On the island of…

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Taking shape EE / EST

Estonia

Estonia's honey landscape is built around short summers, forests, meadows and a managed bee population that has changed dramatically over time. A 2026 genetics study places…

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Taking shape FI / FIN

Finland

Finland asks bees to do a year's work inside an unusually short northern summer. In 2024 the country had about 2,900 beekeepers and 86,544 wintered colonies,…

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Taking shape FR / FRA

France

France is practically a honey continent. More than 63,000 beekeepers manage roughly 1.8 million production hives, while lavender country, chestnut forests, mountains, sunflower fields, linden, acacia…

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Taking shape DE / DEU

Germany

Germany has an enormous beekeeper population, but surprisingly few are professionals. The German Beekeepers Association estimates about 143,000 beekeepers and 964,000 colonies, with 96% keeping no…

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Taking shape GR / GRC

Greece

Greece may be one of Europe's most complicated and rewarding honey countries. Dry mountains, pine forests, islands and aromatic Mediterranean plants create honeys that often look…

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Taking shape HU / HUN

Hungary

Hungary and acacia honey are almost inseparable. The country's huge stands of black locust—called acacia in European honey culture—produce the pale, mild honey that Hungary officially…

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Taking shape IS / ISL

Iceland

Iceland is honey at the edge of what seems reasonable. Honeybees are not native to the island, so modern Icelandic beekeeping depends on introduced colonies able…

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Taking shape IE / IRL

Ireland

Ireland has something much of northern Europe has lost: a large surviving population of the European dark honeybee, Apis mellifera mellifera. A nationwide genetic study sampled…

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Taking shape IT / ITA

Italy

Italy is almost ridiculously well suited to Honey Chronicles. CREA describes about 1.6 million hives managed by nearly 82,000 beekeepers, producing more than 30 commercially important…

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Taking shape LI / LIE

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is so small that its honey landscape naturally spills across borders. In Schaan, beekeeper Marco Jehle-Radkohl keeps bees using biodynamic methods, while his Rheinstoff project…

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Taking shape LT / LTU

Lithuania

Lithuania's honey story reaches far beyond the modern wooden hive. In Stripeikiai, Aukštaitija, the Museum of Ancient Beekeeping preserves a tradition stretching back centuries, complete with…

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Taking shape LU / LUX

Luxembourg

Luxembourg may be tiny, but it has already done something HC cares deeply about: tied honey to place, beekeeper and batch. The national Lëtzebuerger Hunneg system…

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Taking shape MT / MLT

Malta

Malta may be one of the smallest countries in Europe, but its honey calendar is spectacularly distinct. Spring brings pale multifloral honey; summer belongs to the…

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Taking shape MD / MDA

Moldova

Moldova is showing us in real time how weather can rewrite a honey harvest. In 2025, spring frost and rain devastated the acacia crop and badly…

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Taking shape MC / MCO

Monaco

Monaco may be one of the strangest honey landscapes in Europe because almost the entire story is urban. Beehives sit on rooftops and terraces in one…

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Taking shape ME / MNE

Montenegro

Montenegro is small enough to cross in a day, but its bees can forage in an astonishing variety of landscapes. The country's new Atlas of Honey…

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Taking shape NL / NLD

Netherlands

The Netherlands hides some surprisingly old honey traditions inside a thoroughly modern landscape. The Veluwe turns purple with common heather in late summer, producing a thick,…

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Taking shape MK / MKD

North Macedonia

North Macedonia may already have the most famous beekeeper in this entire European project. Hatidže Muratova, whose traditional wild-bee practice became the heart of the documentary…

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Taking shape NO / NOR

Norway

Norwegian beekeepers work within a narrow seasonal window, but the landscape rewards them with some remarkable honeys. The country's signature is heather honey, produced when colonies…

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Taking shape PL / POL

Poland

Poland is one of Europe's major beekeeping countries, but the most interesting thing is how much of that industry still lives in relatively small apiaries. A…

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Taking shape PT / PRT

Portugal

Portugal may have one of Europe's strongest protected-honey maps. The country's official traditional-products database contains a remarkable series of PDO honeys—from the dark heather honey of…

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Taking shape RO / ROU

Romania

Romania's honey landscape is driven by a remarkable collision of forest, farmland and mountains. Acacia, linden, rapeseed, sunflower, honeydew and polyfloral honeys are repeatedly identified among…

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Taking shape RU / RUS

Russia

Russia's size makes the phrase “Russian honey” almost meaningless. Honey from the Bashkir Urals may come from linden forests or even hollow trees occupied by a…

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Taking shape SM / SMR

San Marino

San Marino just surprised me. For a country of barely 61 square kilometers, it has a remarkably organized beekeeping system. An official census reported 81 registered…

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Taking shape RS / SRB

Serbia

Serbia is a country where honey geography and bee genetics have both been rearranged by modern beekeeping. The eastern Homolje region is famous enough for its…

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Taking shape SK / SVK

Slovakia

Slovakia has a beautiful honey split between lowland blossom country and mountain forest honey. Acacia is one of the best-known monoflorals, while forest honeydew and wild…

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Taking shape SI / SVN

Slovenia

Slovenia isn't simply good at beekeeping; it has organized part of its national identity around bees. With only about two million people, the country reported more…

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Taking shape ES / ESP

Spain

Spain is one of Europe's true honey giants, and 2026 made its map even richer. Official Ministry data put the 2024 harvest at 33,134 tonnes, up…

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Taking shape SE / SWE

Sweden

Sweden's honey is shaped by latitude, long summer days and landscapes that change dramatically from southern farmland to northern forest. The Swedish Board of Agriculture currently…

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Taking shape CH / CHE

Switzerland

Switzerland produces only about 3,000 tonnes of honey per year, roughly one-third of domestic demand, but the small national harvest hides an unusually varied honey landscape.…

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Taking shape UA / UKR

Ukraine

Ukraine's honey map is being formally defined at the same time that war is making beekeeping extraordinarily difficult. In July 2024, Zakarpattia Honey became a registered…

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Taking shape GB / GBR

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom finally gained its first geographically protected honey in 2025, when Welsh Heather Honey received PGI status. It is a fitting choice: late-summer ling…

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More to discover VA / VAT

Vatican City

Vatican City may be the most useful “don't fake the data” example in the entire European research pass. The Vatican Gardens occupy roughly 22 hectares—about half…

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North America

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Taking shape AG / ATG

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda has a small but organized beekeeping sector whose strongest documented honey identity is Barbuda Logwood Honey. Cooperative branding and collective trademarks now protect…

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Taking shape BS / BHS

Bahamas

The Bahamas has an emerging island-based beekeeping network with active training and small producers, but current public evidence does not yet support a national Honey Region…

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Taking shape BB / BRB

Barbados

Barbados has a small but newly organizing beekeeping sector. The country's first registered beekeeping cooperative was registered in 2025, while a 2026 Ministry official said local…

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Taking shape BZ / BLZ

Belize

Belize has a documented national beekeeping subsector with production across the country and strongest output in Orange Walk and Cayo. Government reporting for 2023 recorded more…

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Taking shape CA / CAN

Canada

Canada is a major temperate honey producer with beekeeping in every province and a strong concentration of colonies and honey output in the Prairie provinces. In…

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Taking shape CR / CRI

Costa Rica

Costa Rica combines a substantial commercial honey-bee sector with unusually rich native-bee diversity and an active meliponiculture research community. Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula are major…

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Taking shape CU / CUB

Cuba

Cuba has a highly structured apiculture system built around registered producers, provincial collection and national quality/traceability controls. The country also preserves a living meliponiculture tradition around…

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Taking shape DM / DMA

Dominica

Dominica has a small, cooperative-centered beekeeping sector shaped by rainforest conditions, heavy seasonal rainfall and repeated development efforts aimed at increasing local honey production and resilience.…

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Taking shape DO / DOM

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has an active commercial and cooperative honey sector now receiving major government investment. Current policy emphasizes hive expansion, training, food-safety inspection and export…

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Taking shape SV / SLV

El Salvador

El Salvador has an export-oriented commercial honey sector supported by government veterinary monitoring, producer cooperatives and extension services. Chalatenango is an important production geography, while the…

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Taking shape GD / GRD

Grenada

Grenada has a small but highly visible apiculture sector with active national organization, international technical cooperation and an unusual record of award-winning honey. Current evidence supports…

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Taking shape GT / GTM

Guatemala

Guatemala has an export-oriented Apis mellifera honey chain with a national traceability register and a separate, deeply rooted Indigenous stingless-bee tradition. The country is especially important…

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Taking shape HT / HTI

Haiti

Haiti's beekeeping sector is largely small-scale and artisanal, but current projects show strong local organization and new processing infrastructure. The Three Bays protected area, Grand'Anse coastal…

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Taking shape HN / HND

Honduras

Honduras has a rapidly developing smallholder and cooperative honey sector with especially strong recent activity in El Paraíso, Colón, Santa Bárbara and coffee-growing regions such as…

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Taking shape JM / JAM

Jamaica

Jamaica has one of the Caribbean's largest organized beekeeping sectors, a dedicated Ministry Apiculture Unit and a distinctive honey culture that includes logwood honey. Current government…

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Taking shape MX / MEX

Mexico

Mexico is one of the world's major honey countries, with federal agriculture authorities explicitly recognizing five apicultural regions defined by climate, flowering and honey characteristics. The…

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Taking shape NI / NIC

Nicaragua

Nicaragua's honey sector is export-oriented and dominated by small producers, with 2025 reporting citing more than 1,000 beekeepers and about 25,000 hives. The country also has…

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Taking shape PA / PAN

Panama

Panama's apiculture sector is growing and increasingly research-driven. MIDA counted 652 beekeepers, 15,529 hives and 67,621 gallons of honey in 2025, while IDIAP is actively studying…

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Taking shape KN / KNA

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis has a small rebuilding apiculture sector with deep historical roots, government-led development work and a UNESCO-linked youth biodiversity project. Evidence is strong…

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Taking shape LC / LCA

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia has an unusually ambitious small-island apiculture sector, with a government Apiculture Commodity programme, organized producer collectives, dedicated processing infrastructure and repeated international honey-show success.

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Taking shape VC / VCT

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a small but deliberately rebuilt beekeeping sector shaped by a near-collapse of managed colonies, queen-rearing investment and island-to-island expansion. Current…

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Taking shape TT / TTO

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago has a historically regulated beekeeping sector whose two islands now have notably different managed honey-bee populations: government sources describe Africanized bees in Trinidad…

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Taking shape US / USA

United States

The United States has a vast, migratory and regionally diverse beekeeping industry. USDA recorded 2.60 million honey-producing colonies and 134 million pounds of honey in 2024,…

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Oceania

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Taking shape AU / AUS

Australia

Australia is not one honey landscape but a continental mosaic of native forests, island bee sanctuaries, therapeutic Leptospermum honeys and tropical stingless-bee traditions. Western Tasmania's leatherwood…

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Taking shape FJ / FJI

Fiji

Fiji has one of the Pacific's clearest modern beekeeping industries. Current 2026 ACIAR reporting places the sector at about 1,200 beekeepers, more than 13,000 hives and…

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Taking shape KI / KIR

Kiribati

Kiribati is intentionally sparse in this seed. Its low coral atolls have severe soil, freshwater and land constraints, and the government's 2022–2026 Agriculture Action Framework focuses…

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Taking shape MH / MHL

Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands is also a research-gap country for Honey Chronicles. Current agriculture policy is shaped by the extreme land and freshwater limits of coral atolls,…

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Taking shape FM / FSM

Micronesia

The Federated States of Micronesia spans four states—Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae—across hundreds of islands, so a single national honey identity would be especially misleading. Current…

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Taking shape NR / NRU

Nauru

Nauru is deliberately almost blank in this Honey Chronicles seed. The national Climate Smart Agriculture Plan describes severely degraded soils, scarce water, very limited crop production…

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Taking shape NZ / NZL

New Zealand

New Zealand's honey story joins strict provenance science with unusually distinctive native landscapes. Mānuka honey is defined for export by the Ministry for Primary Industries using…

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Taking shape PW / PLW

Palau

Palau has a remarkable beekeeper story but still lacks enough public data for a confident national honey map. In 2022, local reporting documented Tobias and Conti…

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Taking shape PG / PNG

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea's strongest honey identity sits in the Eastern Highlands around Goroka, where high altitude, coffee gardens, rainforest and commercial hardwoods support smallholder Apis mellifera…

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Taking shape WS / WSM

Samoa

Samoa's beekeeping sector is small, introduced and actively rebuilding its knowledge base. Ministry reporting in 2021 counted about 41 active beekeepers and said local production could…

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Taking shape SB / SLB

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands carries one of the Pacific's clearest examples of an apiculture system transformed by invasive bees and mites. A 2026 peer-reviewed study estimates that by…

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Taking shape TO / TON

Tonga

Tonga's honey story is one of survival, island isolation and natural Bee adaptation. Scientific work on Apis mellifera sampled Vavaʻu and Tongatapu as two unusually informative…

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Taking shape TV / TUV

Tuvalu

Tuvalu remains a genuine Honey Chronicles research gap. Its coral-atoll agriculture is constrained by shallow alkaline soils, saltwater intrusion, limited fresh water and very small land…

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Taking shape VU / VUT

Vanuatu

Vanuatu's young honey industry sits inside a much older and more complicated Bee landscape. A 2012 disease survey estimated about 400 managed colonies—more than 90% on…

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South America

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Taking shape AR / ARG

Argentina

Argentina is a major honey country with a surprisingly modern story developing underneath its export industry. Government reporting in 2025 counted roughly 22,330 registered producers and…

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Taking shape BO / BOL

Bolivia

Bolivia immediately changes the meaning of “honeybee.” In the Chaco of Chuquisaca, Guaraní families still raise native stingless bees, particularly the small *señorita bee, Tetragonisca angustula**,…

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Taking shape BR / BRA

Brazil

Brazil may become one of the most structurally important countries in the entire Atlas. The country produced a record 67.3 million kilograms of honey in 2024,…

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Taking shape CL / CHL

Chile

Chile stretches through so many climates that its honey can move from Mediterranean scrub to cool temperate rainforest without leaving the country. Government data for 2024…

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Taking shape CO / COL

Colombia

Colombia's mountains make its honey story vertical. Government reporting in 2024 estimated about 163,215 hives and 6,599 tonnes of honey annually, with Antioquia, Sucre, Meta, Huila…

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Taking shape EC / ECU

Ecuador

Ecuador may eventually be better known in Honey Chronicles for native stingless bees than for ordinary honeybees. More than 200 stingless-bee species have been identified in…

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Taking shape GY / GUY

Guyana

Guyana's honey industry is growing at a startling pace. Government figures show production rising from 2,128 gallons in 2023 to 27,601 gallons in 2024 and 38,574…

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Taking shape PY / PRY

Paraguay

Paraguay reached an important honey milestone in July 2025, when Miel de Abeja de los Humedales del Ñeembucú became the country's first fully registered national Geographical…

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Taking shape PE / PER

Peru

Peru may have just given Honey Chronicles one of its biggest bee stories anywhere. A national law enacted in January 2025 protects more than 175 species…

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Taking shape SR / SUR

Suriname

Suriname is giving us two honey worlds at once. In the country's forested interior, Indigenous communities are expanding stingless-bee meliponiculture as an alternative livelihood to destructive…

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Taking shape UY / URY

Uruguay

Uruguay is a small country with an unusually sophisticated honey-traceability system. Every beekeeper must make an annual declaration of hive stock and hive location through the…

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Taking shape VE / VEN

Venezuela

Uruguay is a small country with an unusually sophisticated honey-traceability system. Every beekeeper must make an annual declaration of hive stock and hive location through the…

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How to read the Atlas

Geography is fact. Origin needs evidence.

A Producer's address tells us where the business is based, not necessarily where a product was harvested. A production area is not automatically a recognized region. The Atlas keeps those ideas separate until evidence connects them.