Most landmines per country

Although Afghanistan and Iraq are littered with mines or unexploded ordnance (UXO), around 10 million each, neither compares to Egypt, which is blighted by 23 million of them, planted during World War II and the Egypt-Israel wars of 1956, 1967 and 1973. Although 10 million have been cleared from the western desert and the Sinai desert over the years, thousands of people have been killed and Egyptians refer to the minefields as "the Devil's garden". UXO deployed