Apple announced today that the rising tide of the New iPad is about to envelope a score more countries.

Later this week Apple plans to release the New iPad in South Korea, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, St Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela. Apple also plans to make the New iPad available in 9 more countries on Friday, April 27. The new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand.

The New iPad is going to be selling for the regular retail in those countries, with the base Wifi model starting at $500.

That’s a fair mouthful of countries listed above, isn’t it? To be honest, I’ve seen a more impressive list. Have you ever heard of the song Yakko’s World? it was made for animated TV series in the early ’90s, and it listed every country that existed at the time.

A number of the countries don’t exist anymore, but the somg is still impressive.