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These are all the countries where same-sex marriage is legal, mapped

Picture: Yana Paskova/Getty Images
Picture: Yana Paskova/Getty Images

Colombia has legalised same-sex marriage after a ruling by the country’s top court.

The country became the fourth in Latin America to extend the same marriage rights to same-sex couples as heterosexual couples on Friday, joining Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

The below map by Statista gives a breakdown of where same-sex marriage is legal around the world.

Same-sex marriage is also legal in Mexico's capital and in several of the country's states, but not the entire country.

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