What are some of the best local websites in the world?

If you look at the world's most popular web site, then you will be depressed to find a bunch of familiar names--facebook,google,amazon,ebay,twitter. But there are also some countries where local websites are very popular. Let's take a look at the sites below, but don't forget to share this with your friends in VKontakte: Russia's biggest social networking site.

Craigslist, canada

Website: Kijiji

Description: Do you want to find a dog sled in Yukon (Northern Canada) or do you want to find a canoe in Saskatchewan, Prov.? Then this classified site allows you to find any seller in the province or city. And it's an ebay affiliate.

Popularity: Kijiji is the 12th most visited site in Canada, and Craigslist is ranked 22.

Brazil's Google +

Website: ORKUT

Description: Maybe we need to see where the world has not been invaded by Google +, the social network. Orkut has never actually appeared on American soil, but it has become a heavyweight player in Brazil, with more than 60% of all page visits from Brazil. If you look at the page, you know it competes with MySpace, not Facebook.

Popularity: There are 35.7 million independent users in June 2011.

Reddit of Argentina

Website: taringa!

Description: This collective intelligent website is a news aggregation site: Funny photos, web games, explosion news. You can find the most popular links based on the votes of all users, or you can search by region.

Popularity: It is Argentina's 9th-ranked site, with the top 20 in the entire Latin American region.

ESPN, Iraq

Website: kooora

Description: A sports website focused on football. For every player's stats, surveys, and analytics, it's possible to be a user if you know Ronaldo or Ronaldinho and speak Arabic.

Popularity: It is the 8th-ranked Iraqi site and ranked top 20 in 11 Middle Eastern countries.

WordPress, Iran

Website: BLOGFA

Description: Blogging is very popular here-Persian is the second most popular language in the blogosphere. It is one of the few websites that has so far not been censored by the government.

Popularity: The website of Iran's 3rd visit, after Yahoo and Google.

ebay, France

Website: leboncoin

Description: From Morpis comics to French villas, here you can buy and sell all products. This auction site is very popular in Europe. (70% of Swedes visit their home trading websites)

Popularity: the 9th website of French visitors (ebay ranked 12th)

LinkedIn, Sudan

Website: BAYT

Description: It used to be the monster.com of the Middle East, but now it's more like LinkedIn. Last summer, it was able to log on with a Facebook account, provide social networks that can be quickly searched, and support English, French and Arabic.

Popularity: The top 100 sites in the United Arab Emirates, 5.5 million users from Sudan, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, and Syria often visit the site.

Hints Dictionary of Serbia

Website: Vukajlija

Description: Users are free to submit their explanations of slang and emerging vocabulary. Krvavo Zaradjen Obrok means a free sandwich after donating blood, Oštrokonda is a gossip actress. (If you speak Serbian Croatian here, you're dead.)

Popularity: It is the top ten sites in Serbia, and it is also popular in the Republic of Montenegro, and in both Herzegovina and Macedonia.

The A.I.M of China.

Website: QQ

Description: This instant messaging software also offers games, virtual communities and online dating services. Not only that, it also has online retailing, toy sales, and even its own currency.

Popularity: More than 712 million users, it is the world's second most popular website.

PayPal, Kenya

Website: pesapal

Description: In this online payment system is very popular in Africa, the mobile payment market in Africa will reach 22 billion dollars by 2015. It has penetrated the school's tuition, insurance and Nairobi stock trading. The next goal is to build Africa's first credit rating system.

Popularity: There are 200,000 users in Kenya, which expanded to Uganda and Tanzania last year.

Amazon, Japan

Website: RAKUTEN (Lotte)

Description: Amazon is a Rakuten in the Japanese market, from a Japanese pop album to a second-hand truck. And it is Japan's largest tourist website and blog platform. Rakuten even has a professional baseball team, Lotte Golden Eagle team.

Popularity: There are more than 72 million users, is the Japanese traffic 7th website (Amazon ranked 10th).

Facebook in Russia

Website: VKontakte

Description: It is often called VK, and looks very familiar, because it is shameless to copy Facebook (its name in Russian is "contact" meaning). But unlike Zuckerberg's web site, it allows users to share seed files, anonymously posting or sending letters. Not surprisingly, it's full of junk information.

Popularity: The 4th-ranked website in Russia (Facebook is 8th), with 35 million independent visits in March 2011.

The Match.com of India

Website: Shaadi

Description: This dating site claims to have successfully paired 2 million couples. Choose whether to be a bride or groom and then sift through the language, educational background, religion and constellation. is expected to find the best daughter-in-law (son-in-law) parents of the most love, but also want to find a boyfriend and girlfriend favorite.

Popularity: More than 7% of the visits in India are to dating sites, and Shaadi is ranked first among these dating sites.

South Korea's Yahoo

Website: NAVER

Description: It is a Korean search engine that has business like Yahoo answer and Yahooligans. When it cooperated with the online gaming Hangame company in 2000, it began to go by leaps and bounds. And lately, it has penetrated Japan.

Popularity: Is the South Korean traffic 4th website, and occupies 70% of the country's search market share.

Source: Alexa and ComScore