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Countries w/ Longest Coastlines Quiz

We have a list of the 20 countries with the longest coastlines. How many can you name?
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CoastlineCountry
202,080 km
54,716 km
37,653 km
36.289 km
29,751 km
25,760 km
25,148 km
19,924 km
15,134 km
14,500 km
CoastlineCountry
13,676 km
12,429 km
9,330 km
7,600 km
7,491 km
7,314 km
7,200 km
7,000 km
6,435 km
5,835 km
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beccalinda
I missed only Croatia (not too bad), but I would not have expected that to be on there. Good quiz!
2010-08-16
dadof4js
Why isn't Greenland considered a country?
2010-08-16
ecky
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Denmark's government is only charged with security, foreign affairs and financial policy. According to the CIA World Factbook, Greenland's coastline is 44087 km which would make them 3rd on the list
2010-08-17
Lorelei3
greenland is part of denmark
2010-08-17
Screen Name
Missed Phillipeans, Denmark (forgot about Greenland), Turkey, and Croatia.
2010-08-18
Cicely
Managed to get Croatia but not Mexico.
2010-08-19
Bob Saget
Croatia has a longer coastline than Madagascar and South Africa? That doesn't seem right, unless Croatia is much larger than it looks on the map.
2010-08-21
Nyackjohn
"Coastline" actually follows the contours of a country where it meets the sea - if it's very convoluted, it means the miles of coastline are higher (croatia, norway) than countries with very even coastlines (namibia, madagascar) - I guess they used this model. Look up Maine's actual "coastline" mileage compared to other states and you'll see what I mean.
2010-08-23
marceloOrigoni
I thought Argentina coastline was bigger than Chile
2010-09-07
Hopper
Croatia?!?! How the hell does that have more coastline than say France or Argentina???
2010-09-23
gandhi
croatia has many islands, their coastlines summed up give it its place on this list.
2010-10-09
Chrtr82
yeah its the craggy bits that add up and with the islands as well. still surprised that France isn't in there what with corsica being part of france
2010-10-15
lovely lucy
uk should count for united kingdom
Quizmaster replies:
UK will now work for all quizzes where United Kingdom is an answer.
2011-02-01
wojtowicz
20
2011-02-02
Teresa Dawn
Missed Turkey but got the rest. Should have gotten it, seems so obvious haha!
2011-03-25
sabres123fan
how did i miss new zealand???? got croatia, turkey, but not nz!
2011-04-14
Mithol
I missed Croatia, Denmark and...China. *facepalm*
2011-04-19
GeckoIX
missed Turkey
2011-04-24
bignate97
missed croatia
2011-06-01
ilovegeographymuchly
Missed Italy and New Zealand, but managed to get Croatia because I used to live there so I know. Anyway, facepalm over Italy.
2011-06-08
ninarose1410
why isn't greenland on here? it's not being accounted for by denmark according to the coastline amount you have listed, so it should count as its own country. and what about the federated states of micronesia? according to wikipedia they have more coastline than croatia.
2011-06-20
geowhizz
i'd think that if you counted western sahara as part of morocco that morocco would make it
2011-06-21
tryornot
Excellent quiz. I loved it!
2011-07-08
zwizdan007
Croatia has 1033 islands and has 3rd longest coastline in Europe, after Norway and Greece (believe me, I live on one of them) :-)))
2011-07-12
kitcat1217
The only one I missed was the second one.
2011-08-01
aaronachnid
if greenland is part of denmark, then why isnt it higher on the list?
2011-08-08
Jaq
Missed Croatia and UK. Oh well :P
2011-08-24
verycherry831
ugh i missed japan one of the top 10 answers
2011-08-27
Bhenn10
TECHNICALLY, Micronesia has 6112 miles of coast whilst Croatia has 5835.
2011-09-19
Erin S
How did i miss China? :/
2011-10-06
Fofie
Missed Greece. :( Feel a bit stupid......
2011-10-13
Jaq
Thanks to this quiz, I'll always remember that Croatia has islands in its territory
2011-10-17
Hdny42
I'm shocked at the US being so low on the list when you consider the length of the east and west coasts, plus the coast lines of Alaska and Hawaii...then even factor in Puerto Rico and Guam. All that together is less than Norway? Japan? Russia? Doesn't make sense...something doesn't add up...does the Gulf of Mexico count?
2011-11-02
theLAYTshow
Croatia...
2011-11-05
emmaliza
Hdny42 - Russia is huge, and has the entire gap between them and the arctic on their side. Japan is made of tons of tiny islands, which makes the coast line longer than the area would imply. I'm not quite sure about Norway, but I think they've got a lot of little islands just off the mainland, again adding to the score. Coastlines: deceptive buggers.
2011-11-26
420anaitor
If anyone thinks that a country shoulnd't be on here or up or down in the list, JUST LOOK AT A DETAILED MAP OF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT
2011-12-26
tommywaits
shouldnt denmark be included seeing as it owns greenland :P
2012-01-19
joe soap
Denmark is on the list because of its many islands; not because of Greenland.
2012-02-05
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