List of countries with alcohol prohibition
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The following countries have or had comprehensive prohibitions against alcohol. Apart from the Indian states, all the countries and regions that presently ban alcohol have a significant Muslim majority.
Present
Currently, alcohol prohibition is enforced in many Muslim-majority countries and some parts of India.[1]
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Iran
- Libya
- Kuwait
- Maldives (not including non-Muslims)
- Mauritania (excluding some expat bars)
- Pakistan (not including non-Muslims; excluding Murree beer)
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan (excluding United Nations and other expat compounds)
- Somalia (excluding United Nations and other expat compounds)
- United Arab Emirates (In the emirate of Sharja; not including non-Muslims)
- India (In the states of Gujarat, Bihar, Kerala, Manipur and Nagaland and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep)
- Yemen
Past
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- United States - 1920–1933 (see United States - Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution-Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution)
- Canada - 1918-1920 (see Prohibition in Canada)
- Faroe Islands - 1907-1992
- Russian Empire and the Soviet Union - 1914-1923
- Iceland - 1915-1935; (see Prohibition in Iceland) (beer with an alcohol content exceeding 2.25% was prohibited until 1989)
- Norway - 1916-1927
- Hungarian Soviet Republic - March 21 - August 1 1919 - sale and consumption of alcohol was prohibited.
- Finland - 1919-1932
References
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