At least in ON a lot of products don't really say where they are from. I avoid those products nowadays, but I never understood why it's allowed in the first place. In the place where I'm from all products say so.

I think word count is not the best metric precisely because of what you mention. "Krankenversicherungskarte" is one word vs the three word "health insurance card", but they convey the same information in roughly the same amount of characters.

Overall I don't find German particularly verbose, only sometimes a small phrase is condensed into a single word.

IIRC the wikipedia for each language is pseudo independent. This feature will eventually make it to all, I hope.

You have the president's face in airports?

I was confused by your wording, but I think you mean South of the USA rather than South America.

It may be Mount Ararat

Possibly Azerbaijan taking over Artsakh.

North America was built by the train, it was later destroyed for the car.

I am trying to picture it, but I think the sunwise convention only works in the Northern hemisphere.

I heard you like cache, so I put some cache on your cache.

Most republics afaik have "Republic" in their name. I don't think that's the problem.

Weint in Österreich, der Schweiz und Liechtenstein.