Travel Picks: Top 10 moustache-dense nations for Movember

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - In a growing campaign to refer to November as "Movember", men around the world are being encouraged to grow a moustache for 30 days to raise awareness and funds for prostate and testicular cancer.

Men's website AskMen.com has come up with its list of the 10 most moustache-dense countries to mark the fund-raising campaign that is believed to have started in Australia in 1999.

For even though the United States was the clear winner at the World Beard and Moustache Championships held in Anchorage, Alaska, in May this year, capturing 12 world titles out of 18 categories, it is not the most moustache-dense nation.

The United States dethroned Germany which had dominated the competition since it started in the 1990s.

The list was compiled by the website's editors (here) and is not endorsed by Reuters:

1. India

Some estimates suggest as many as 80 percent of men in southern India wear moustaches, which immediately places that one region above most countries in terms of moustache-wearing men. Moustaches have long held an important place in Indian culture, seen as a symbol of virility. An Indian also holds the title of the world's longest moustache, measured in 2004 at 12.5 feet.

2. Mexico