Billiards – Participating Countries

Asian Countries Participating in Billiards

Though a little late, Asian countries picked up the game fast and produced some world champion players. India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Chinese Taipei are a few from the list of 33-member countries that play professional English Billiards. Below is a table of all the 33 nations.

Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports was formed to organize all the Billiard and Snooker events across Asia.

Afghanistan	India	Thailand	Sri Lanka
Bahrain	Indonesia	Lebanon	Syria
Bangladesh	Iran	Mongolia	UAE
Brunei	Iraq	Myanmar	Vietnam
Singapore	Japan	Nepal	Yemen
China-Hong Kong	Jordan	Pakistan	Malaysia
China-Macau	South Korea	Palestine
China	Saudi Arabia	Philippines
Chinese Taipei	Kuwait	Qatar

Non-Asian Countries Participating in Billiards

As the game took birth in United Kingdom, European and South American countries played this sport since. France introduced a separate table for the game and gradually, Billiards on French Table came into limelight. We will discuss the differences of English and French Tables later in this tutorial. Here is another table with list of Non-Asian countries participating in Billiards.

Egypt	Canada	Albania	Germany
Lesotho	United States	Austria	Great Britain (UK)
Libya	Argentina	Belarus	Greece
Malawi	Aruba	Belgium	Hungary
Mauritius	Bolivia	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ireland
Morocco	Brazil	Bulgaria	Israel
Namibia	Chile	Croatia	Italy
Nigeria	Colombia	Cyprus	Liechtenstein
Reunion	Costa Rica	Czech Republic	Luxembourg
South Africa	Ecuador	Denmark	Macedonia
Swaziland	Honduras	Estonia	Montenegro
Tanzania	Mexico	Finland	Netherlands
Uganda	Netherlands Antilles	France	North Cyprus
Zambia	Nicaragua	Norway
	Panama	Poland
	Peru	Portugal
	Puerto Rico	Russia
	Uruguay	Serbia
	Venezuela	Slovakia
		Slovenia
		Spain
		Sweden
		Switzerland
		Turkey
		Ukraine