Italy sells more pasta to other countries than anyone else - $2.9 billion worth of dried noodles in 2018 - followed by China with $0.9 billion. In which East African country, where Italian soldiers occupied the land in the 1930s and left pasta behind, is spaghetti often served on top of a flat sourdough bread called injera and eaten by hand?

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Ethiopia. In 2018, Italy was the world's largest exporter of pasta, followed by China with about $0.9 billion in exports. In Ethiopia, pasta was introduced through Italian colonization and is often served over injera flatbread and eaten by hand.