Confirmed lightings total passes 1000

The information that we have received over the last few days confirms that more than 1000 monuments and landmarks around the world went blue for World Diabetes Day. This total excludes the many homes that were also lit.

The countries and territories that included at least one lighting are:

Algeria; Argentina; Aruba; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Barbados; Belgium; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Cayman Islands; Chile; China, Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Egypt; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Gibraltar; Holy See (Vatican City State); Honduras; Hungary; Iceland; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Mayotte; Mexico; Morocco; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Pakistan; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Romania; Russian Federation; Saint Lucia; San Marino; Saudi Arabia; Slovakia; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sudan; Suriname; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan; Thailand; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Venezuela.

View all the lightings.

A big thank you to everyone who helped bring diabetes to light for World Diabetes Day 2009!