Every easter, we go from door to door and beat girl's backs with a whip made of braided rods. They give us sweets and alcohol for exchange.
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Slartibartfast won an award for something that is literally right outside my bedroom window.
We had the highest sheep:human ratio of any country. I think we still do, but I'm not sure.
New Zealand? Iceland?
NZ
If there's water to be manipulated in a way to either keep it out, or to make land appear where water once was, they are going to hire people from here.
Swamp Germany!
Netherlands? Or Denmark.
Ding ding ding! Netherlands indeed.
It's probably one of the best countries to live in but also comes with a big tradeoff in the form of a bad climate. People keep to themselves and avoid interacting with strangers. We're also known for being quiet, humble and honest.
Finland
Correct
There's a word coined in this town's specific dialect that means "catty corner, kitty corner, or diagonal".
Hint: the first two syllables of that word are "anti", though the "t" is not a full fricative stop.
We have two animals on our coat of arms neither of which can walk backwards.
Despite New being in the name of it, the “old” place was named many years after.
I can go regular skiing on snow and water skiing on the ocean in the same day.
Italy?
We have a small desert with cactii in a region that has snow 6 months, extreme cold for 2 months of the year.
I’ve got a few but I’ll go with:
The Guinness World Record Largest Open Sandwich; It was a barbecue pork bun (as of July 2010; dunno if the record still stands)
More navigable waterways than any other US state. (From there but no longer live there).
One of our sports teams shocked the world in 2016 by doing the impossible.
The team in question wasn't the Tigers.
We have scammers
That narrows it down to Earth
India
Got it
Small children are taught to be afraid of the devil, but not THE Devil (in the US).
I'm from an area where we have a specific night of the year called "Devil's night". Easily googlable, but it's interesting that I didn't realize that few other areas seem to call it that from what I can tell?
We've got one of the oldest, largest, and most used transit systems in the world.
One of the worlds most useless canals goes through my town (on it's path to crossing the entire width of the country). It was built largely with russian POW's. However, roughly eight years before it was completed, steam locomitives became a thing, making it obsolete.
I think you're referring to the Masurian Canal, so you could be in either Russia or Poland.
When I lived there, it was the city with the most parkland per capita in the US.
The US!
Nailed it.