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Rank	Country	Natural gas - imports (cubic meters)
1	United States	105,800,000,000
2	Germany	99,630,000,000
3	Japan	98,010,000,000
4	Italy	70,200,000,000
5	United Kingdom	53,630,000,000
6	France	46,200,000,000
7	Korea, South	42,380,000,000
8	Russia	38,200,000,000
9	Turkey	38,040,000,000
10	Spain	36,710,000,000
11	China	30,000,000,000
12	Ukraine	26,700,000,000
13	Netherlands	25,770,000,000
14	Canada	22,530,000,000
15	Belgium	19,320,000,000
16	Belarus	17,600,000,000
17	United Arab Emirates	17,250,000,000
18	Mexico	14,590,000,000
19	Brazil	12,480,000,000
20	India	12,150,000,000
21	Austria	12,130,000,000
22	Taiwan	11,790,000,000
23	Poland	10,890,000,000
24	Hungary	9,636,000,000
25	Czech Republic	9,320,000,000
26	Singapore	8,400,000,000
27	Thailand	8,290,000,000
28	Iran	6,900,000,000
29	Australia	5,990,000,000
30	Slovakia	5,586,000,000
31	Ireland	5,293,000,000
32	Portugal	5,122,000,000
33	Finland	4,782,000,000
34	Greece	3,815,000,000
35	Argentina	3,780,000,000
36	Kazakhstan	3,700,000,000
37	Switzerland	3,625,000,000
38	South Africa	3,500,000,000
39	Hong Kong	3,460,000,000
40	Lithuania	3,120,000,000
41	Jordan	2,850,000,000
42	Bulgaria	2,480,000,000
43	Moldova	2,330,000,000
44	Romania	2,290,000,000
45	Venezuela	2,180,000,000
46	Serbia	2,150,000,000
47	Armenia	2,077,000,000
48	Georgia	1,740,000,000
49	Israel	1,700,000,000
50	Sweden	1,626,000,000
51	Oman	1,500,000,000
52	Chile	1,490,000,000
53	Luxembourg	1,366,000,000
54	Malaysia	1,269,000,000
55	Tunisia	1,250,000,000
56	Latvia	1,125,000,000
57	Vietnam	1,000,000,000
58	Croatia	971,200,000
59	Syria	910,000,000
60	Slovenia	890,000,000
61	Kuwait	890,000,000
62	Puerto Rico	756,700,000
63	Estonia	701,000,000
64	Kyrgyzstan	640,000,000
65	Dominican Republic	560,000,000
66	Morocco	500,000,000
67	Bosnia and Herzegovina	390,000,000
68	Tajikistan	189,000,000
69	Macau	154,500,000
70	Denmark	149,000,000
71	Macedonia	136,800,000
72	Uruguay	86,400,000
73	Mongolia	11,790
74	Aruba	1
75	Antigua and Barbuda	0
76	Afghanistan	0
77	Algeria	0
78	Azerbaijan	0
79	Albania	0
80	Angola	0
81	American Samoa	0
82	Bahrain	0
83	Barbados	0
84	Botswana	0
85	Bermuda	0
86	Bahamas, The	0
87	Bangladesh	0
88	Belize	0
89	Bolivia	0
90	Burma	0
91	Benin	0
92	Bhutan	0
93	Solomon Islands	0
94	Cayman Islands	0
95	Cameroon	0
96	Comoros	0
97	Colombia	0
98	Costa Rica	0
99	Central African Republic	0
100	Cuba	0
101	Cape Verde	0
102	Cook Islands	0
103	Djibouti	0
104	Dominica	0
105	Brunei	0
106	Burundi	0
107	Cambodia	0
108	Chad	0
109	Congo, Republic of the	0
110	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0
111	Ecuador	0
112	Egypt	0
113	Equatorial Guinea	0
114	Eritrea	0
115	El Salvador	0
116	Ethiopia	0
117	Ghana	0
118	Gibraltar	0
119	Grenada	0
120	Greenland	0
121	Fiji	0
122	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0
123	Faroe Islands	0
124	French Polynesia	0
125	Guatemala	0
126	Guinea	0
127	Guyana	0
128	Haiti	0
129	Gambia, The	0
130	Gabon	0
131	Guam	0
132	Montserrat	0
133	Malawi	0
134	Mali	0
135	Libya	0
136	Madagascar	0
137	Laos	0
138	Lebanon	0
139	Liberia	0
140	Lesotho	0
141	Korea, North	0
142	Kiribati	0
143	Kenya	0
144	Jamaica	0
145	Cote d'Ivoire	0
146	Iraq	0
147	Honduras	0
148	Iceland	0
149	Indonesia	0
150	Philippines	0
151	Papua New Guinea	0
152	Guinea-Bissau	0
153	Qatar	0
154	Mauritius	0
155	Mauritania	0
156	Malta	0
157	Maldives	0
158	Panama	0
159	Mozambique	0
160	New Caledonia	0
161	Niue	0
162	Niger	0
163	Vanuatu	0
164	Nigeria	0
165	Norway	0
166	Nepal	0
167	Nauru	0
168	Suriname	0
169	Nicaragua	0
170	New Zealand	0
171	Paraguay	0
172	Peru	0
173	Pakistan	0
174	Uzbekistan	0
175	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0
176	British Virgin Islands	0
177	Virgin Islands	0
178	Namibia	0
179	West Bank	0
180	Western Sahara	0
181	Samoa	0
182	Swaziland	0
183	Yemen	0
184	Zambia	0
185	Zimbabwe	0
186	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
187	Tonga	0
188	Togo	0
189	Sao Tome and Principe	0
190	East Timor	0
191	Trinidad and Tobago	0
192	Turkmenistan	0
193	Tanzania	0
194	Uganda	0
195	Burkina Faso	0
196	Somalia	0
197	Saint Lucia	0
198	Sudan	0
199	Sierra Leone	0
200	Senegal	0
201	Saint Helena	0
202	Rwanda	0
203	Saudi Arabia	0
204	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0
205	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
206	Seychelles	0

Definition: This entry is the total natural gas imported in cubic meters (cu m).

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012

See also: Natural gas - imports map

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