A new poll suggests Canada remains tops with Americans in terms of the countries they view most favourably.

The Gallup poll found 92 per cent of respondents have the most positive view of Canada, followed closely by Britain at 88 per cent.

These two countries have been the top-ranked throughout the 11-year history of the poll.

In this year's poll they were followed by Germany, Japan and India.

Iran and North Korea remain at the bottom of the pecking order among Americans, as they have been since 2004.

Egypt's favourability rating plunged to 40 per cent this year -- an 18-point drop from last year's poll.

The latest poll was conducted earlier this month, during the height of Egypt's anti-government protests.

The poll is based on telephone interviews among one-thousand randomly chosen adults.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.