News Subreddits by Country
News on Reddit comes in two flavors. Global subreddits like r/worldnews aggregate headlines from everywhere, run in English, and are moderated hard: whitelisted sources, no editorializing in titles, comment sections pruned constantly because millions of people pile into every thread. Country subreddits work differently. They mix breaking news with politics, daily-life gripes and local culture, often run in the national language, and their mod teams tend to care less about source formality and more about keeping outsiders from turning every thread into a proxy war.
The practical takeaway: use global subs for the headline and country subs for the context. A story about French pension reform reads one way on r/worldnews and a very different way on r/france, where the people commenting are the ones actually striking. Below are five global picks followed by ten national communities, with notes on what each covers and what language you'll need.
The default front page of the planet, with 47.4M subscribers. It covers major news from around the world and explicitly excludes US-internal stories, which keeps the feed from drowning in American politics. Strict title rules and heavy moderation mean threads stay on the article, not on hot takes.
The counterpart to r/worldnews: 31.5M subscribers discussing current events in the United States and the rest of the world. This is where US domestic stories land. Expect enormous comment sections and fast-moving threads on anything breaking stateside.
One subreddit for 50-plus countries and 746 million people, 11.6M subscribers strong. It runs in English and functions as the continent's shared newsroom — EU politics, cross-border stories, and the occasional argument about whose trains are worse. Good complement to the single-country subs further down this list.
A 780K-subscriber community focused on the relationship between politics and territory — analyzing and predicting what states do and why. It is discussion-first rather than headline-first: long comments, sourced arguments, and mods who remove low-effort takes. Read this after the news, not instead of it.
Yes, the name is a joke — it started as a swap gag and stuck. Behind it is a serious world politics and news community of 664K subscribers, born as an alternative for people who found r/worldnews too US-centric or too heavily filtered. Solid coverage of stories the bigger subs skip.
The main hub for the United Kingdom: 5.5M subscribers covering news, politics, economics, business, society and culture across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It runs in English, obviously, and mixes hard news with everyday British life. For politics-only debate with stricter rules, pair it with r/ukpolitics.
Canada's national subreddit, 4.3M subscribers, and officially bilingual — the community welcomes posts in both English and French, though English dominates in practice. Coverage spans federal politics, provincial news and general Canadian life, with mods who explicitly push members to keep disagreements civil.
The official subreddit for India, with 3.5M subscribers. It runs primarily in English and is one of the fastest-moving country subs on the platform — national politics, regional news, economy and daily-life threads all compete on the same front page. High volume, so sort by top if you only check in occasionally.
The home of Brazilians on Reddit: 3.3M subscribers posting mostly in Portuguese, though the community explicitly allows English too. It covers Brazilian news and politics alongside heavy doses of humor and everyday life. One of the few large country subs where lurking without the local language still half-works thanks to the bilingual policy.
The corner of Reddit for Mexico, 3.2M subscribers, running almost entirely in Spanish. By its own description it covers everything that matters locally — daily-life stories, relationships, travel, culture — with national news and politics woven through. If you want Mexican perspectives on Mexican stories, this beats any English-language filter.
The gathering place for the German-speaking world — Germany first, but also Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg — with 3.2M subscribers. It runs mainly in German with occasional English, and blends news and politics with memes and daily-life discussion. If you read German at all, this is the single best window into the country's mood.
Self-described as a dusty corner of the internet for chewing the fat about Australia and Australians — 2.9M subscribers, all in English. News and politics share space with cost-of-living complaints, wildlife photos and general banter. Less formal than the European country subs, which is very on-brand.
France's main community, 2.6M subscribers, covering the country, the French and the wider francophone world. The language rule is explicit: French or English only, with French dominating. News and politics run alongside culture and everyday-life threads, and comment sections on political stories are exactly as argumentative as you'd hope.
A general hub for Japan with 1.8M subscribers, running in English — its stated job is to host broad discussion and point users toward more specialized Japanese subs. Coverage leans toward news, society and information exchange rather than tourist questions. Useful as an English-language entry point into a country whose domestic internet is famously separate.
The subreddit for Ukraine, 950K subscribers, with a clearly stated purpose: amplifying Ukrainian voices. Because the country is at war, content is tightly moderated — this is the strictest mod policy on this list, by design. It runs largely in English for an international audience, with Ukrainian mixed in, covering the war, national news and life on the ground.
Ranking basis: the five global subreddits lead the list because they are where most Reddit news consumption actually happens, ordered by subscriber count; the country subreddits follow, also sorted by size, from r/unitedkingdom's 5.5M down to r/ukraine's 950K. Subscriber counts come from our directory data and shift daily, so treat them as scale indicators rather than exact figures.
This is a starting lineup, not the whole roster — there are national subs for nearly every country, plus regional communities like r/Africa and topic subs like r/ukpolitics that didn't make the main cut here. Browse the full News & Politics category to find them all.