Best Audio-Manufacturing Countries?

1)USA (Theshold,Krell,magnepan,soundlab,etc)
2)Canada (Simaudio, Classe)
3)Japan (Accuphase,Esoteric,Sony etc)
4)Netherlands (Philips)
5)Germany,France,UK,Switzerland,Italy
6)Quickly on the rise; China,S.Korea

Gregm excellent post,very informative.Metaxas components yes were manufactured Down under but the principal designer Kostas Metaxas is Greek , he chose to put his name on the products rather than making up a firm name.
GREECE is currently producing some high-end components but the demand is low and so the production at the moment.
Brands that come to mind:TSAKIRIDIS DEVICES (tube equipment)
TL ACOUSTICS(turntables) NEXUS ACOUSTICS (speakers,power conditioner,interconnects,power cables)
CRYSTAL AUDIO (high-end dipole speakers)
ANALYSIS (full range ribbon speakers)
Regards
George

Traditionally different countries have different strenghts:
USA for amps (phase linear, crown, mcintosh,krell...)
Great britain speakers (Tannoy,Quad, Lowther,ATC,Spendor...)
Germany/Switzerland tt's and anything tape (Thorens,EMT,Studer/Revox,
Nagra/Kudelski, Goldmund)
Japan a bit of everything except speakers.
And it might not really fit in here but almost all good microphones come from Germany and mixing consoles from Great Britain.