Alabama

Alaska

Alberta

Arizona

Arkansas

British Columbia

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Manitoba

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Brunswick

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Newfoundland and Labrador

North Carolina

North Dakota

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ohio

Oklahoma

Ontario

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Prince Edward Island

Québec

Rhode Island

Saskatchewan

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Yukon

None

A map showing soft drink dialects in North America. "Soda" is used (light green) mainly in California and Nevada. "Pop" (light yellow) in Canada. "Coke" (light purple) in the Southern U S. "Other" (orange) is used mainly in Quebec and northern Canada.

The distribution of generic names given to soft drinks in North America

US / CA States

North America

PopVsSoda.com; Alan McConchie

Soft Drink Dialects

Ecuador

Venezuela

Latin America

Algeria

Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights the O P E C members such as Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria Angola, Venezuela, and Ecuador shaded in blue.

Member states of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an international cartel founded in 1960 to coordinate petroleum production among its members

Countries

World

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Members

Nepal

China

East Asia

Chile

Belize

Bolivia

Guatemala

Honduras

Peru

El Salvador

Mauritania

Mexico

India

Pakistan

South Asia

Jordan

Lebanon

Egypt

Israel

Palestine

Syria

Côte d'Ivoire

Ghana

Senegal

Burkina Faso

Ethiopia

Guinea

Zimbabwe

Eritrea

Mali

Sudan

A world map highlights early cultural hearths. Major hearths in dark green are located in the Middle East, Northern India, and Pakistan. Secondary hearths in light green are found in Mesoamerica, West Africa, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Guatemala, Peru, and North Korea.

Locations of major culture hearths, areas of cultural innovation that gave rise to a particular culture region

Soft Drink Dialects	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Members	Major Hearths
Value	Value	Major hearth	Secondary hearth
		3.31%	1.87%
			26.8%
			11.1%
			30.0%
		22.1%
		30.6%
			23.8%