Exchanging gifts doesn’t just take place between friends and family, but on an international level too. Diplomacy has always entailed giving symbolic gifts to celebrate and commemorate. Some of these gifts are outlandish, some are eye-wateringly expensive, and some are just outright strange.

We’ve put together this infographic looking into the biggest, weirdest and most expensive gifts countries have exchanged.

You may know of some of these already and others you might struggle to believe.

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