This is a list of cheeses by place of origin.

Cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

is a

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. Immune factors and immune ...

-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms. Hundreds of types of cheese from various countries are produced. Their styles, textures and flavors depend on the origin of the milk (including the animal's diet), whether they have been pasteurized, the butterfat content, the bacteria and mold, the processing, and aging.

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spice A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are distinguished from herbs, which are the leaves, flowers, or stems of plants used for flavoring or as a garnish. Spices a ...

s, or

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may be used as flavoring agents. The yellow to red color of many cheeses, such as Red Leicester, is normally formed from adding annatto. While most current varieties of cheese may be traced to a particular locale, or culture, within a single country, some have a more diffuse origin, and cannot be considered to have originated in a particular place, but are associated with a whole region, such as

queso blanco Queso blanco (), literally ''white cheese'' in Spanish, can refer to many different kinds of cheeses whose only common trait is their white color. The specific cheese referred to depends on the region. Production Queso blanco is considered on ...

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. Cheese is an ancient food whose origins predate

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. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where

cheesemaking Cheesemaking (or caseiculture) is the craft of making cheese. The production of cheese, like many other food preservation processes, allows the nutritional and economic value of a food material, in this case milk, to be preserved in concentrat ...

originated, either in

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or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to

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times and, according to

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, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the

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came into existence. In this list, types of cheeses are included; brand names are only included if they apply to a distinct variety of cheese.

Africa

Benin

Ethiopia

Mauritania

Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

China

The dominant Han Chinese culture is not dairy-centric. However, some indigenous sociolinguistic groups in regions of the country, such as

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

and

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

, have strong cheese traditions.

Cyprus

Georgia

India

Indonesia

Japan

Korea

Malaysia

Mongolia

There are two types of Mongolian cheese (бяслаг). They are similar in taste and are like a cross between mozzarella and an unsalted feta cheese. * түүхий сүүний – this is a creamy version of Mongolian cheese made by boiling the milk and keeping the cream top. * болсон сүүний – this is similar but is made without the cream.

Nepal

Philippines

Europe

Albania

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

}) is a type of very dry piquant low-fat smoked

cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

originating from

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. It is usually home-made product, but industrial production also exists.

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Germany's cheese production comprises approximately one-third of the total for all European-produced cheeses.

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Jews of Eastern Europe

Kosovo

Latvia

Lithuania

* Džiugas

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

The Netherlands is one of the major cheese producing countries of Europe, with a tradition of cheesemaking as shown by the

Dutch cheese markets Dutch cheese farmers traditionally take their cheeses to the town's market square to sell them. Teams (''vemen'') of official guild cheese-porters (''kaasdragers''), identified by differently coloured straw hats associated with their ''forward ...

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

The history of

in Poland goes back to 5500 BC, when cheese similar to mozzarella was produced in Neolithic times in Kujawy (north-central Poland).

Portugal

Romania

Russia

* Adygheysky * Altaysky a fairly dry hard cheese, similar to Swiss cheese, originating in the Altai region *

Chyorny Altai Chyorny/Cherny (masculine), Chyornaya/Chernaya (feminine), or Chyornoye/Chernoye (neuter) may refer to: * Daniil Chyorny (c. 1360–1430), Russian icon painter *Vadim Chyorny (born 1997), Russian football player. *Chyorny (inhabited locality) ...

a hard cheese similar to cheddar * Danilovsky * Dorogobuzhsky a soft cheese from western Russia *

Dorozhny Dorozhny (russian: Дорожный) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the administrative centre of and one of two settlements, in addition to Nyuya Severnaya, in Murbaysky Rural Okrug of Lensky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is loc ...

* Golandsky * Gornoaltaysky a hard, crumbly cheese * Kostromskoy * Moale * Moskovsky a hard cow's milk cheese, also similar to Swiss * Medynsky * Omichka a slightly sweet, soft processed cheese made of cow's milk * Pikantny * Poshekhonsky a hard cow's milk cheese * Rossiysky similar to German

Tilsiter Tilsit cheese or Tilsiter cheese is a pale yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese, created in the mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers, the Westphal family, from the Emmental valley. The original buildings from the cheese plant still exist ...

( :ru:Российский сыр ) * Sovetsky * Uglichsky a hard cheese made of cow's milk * Yaroslavsky a hard cow's milk cheese, usually produced in rounds; with a slightly sour taste * Zakusochny a soft blue cow's milk cheese

Serbia

* Sremski * Zlatarski PDO * Sjenički * Svrljiški Belmuz * Krivovirski Kačkavalj * Homoljski ovčiji (Homolje sheep cheese) * Homoljski kozji (Homolje goat cheese) * Homoljski kravlji (Homolje cow cheese) * Pirotski Kačkavalj * Lužnička Vurda * Užički Kajmak * Čačanski Kajmak * Čačanski Sir

Slovakia

Slovenia

* Bohinc Jože * Nanoški * Planinski

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

is home to over 450 varieties of cheese. Cows

is used in about 99 percent of the cheeses produced. The remaining share is made up of sheep milk and goat milk.

Ukraine

United Kingdom

The British Cheese Board states that there are over 700 named British cheeses produced in the UK.

Middle East

Egypt

Iran

Israel

Levant

The Levant is a geographical region east of the Mediterranean Sea which includes the countries of

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan,

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

and sometimes it includes Cyprus and the Turkish province of

Hatay Hatay Province ( tr, Hatay ili, ) is the southernmost province of Turkey. It is situated almost entirely outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of ...

Turkey

North and Central America

Canada

Costa Rica

El Salvador

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

United States

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Other

Some types of cheese were either developed in various locales independently (usually as un-aged products from the beginning stages of dairy processing and cheesemaking), or are not actually cheese products. Examples include:

Unsorted

* Tresse cheese

References

External links

Alphabetical list of cheeses
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