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Thinnest Shaped Countries

Which countries are the longest and thinnest?
Calculations are for the country's main landmass, so minor offshore islands are excluded.
Quiz by TenThousand
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Last updated: November 13, 2021
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First submittedAugust 22, 2014
Times taken2,441
Average score45.0%
Rating3.84
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length ÷ width
country
12.59
Chile
6.79
Gambia
5.79
Cuba
4.87
Japan
4.52
New Zealand
4.28
Malawi
4.09
Norway
4.07
Togo
3.92
Israel
3.82
Sweden
length ÷ width
country
3.54
Nepal
3.52
Timor-Leste
3.20
Panama
3.08
Mexico
3.01
Monaco
2.90
Jamaica
2.78
Liechtenstein
2.77
Madagascar
2.72
Cyprus
2.72
Taiwan
TenThousand
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Level 76
Aug 26, 2014
Nearest misses: Argentina, Austria, Benin, Burma, (Republic of the) Congo, Costa Rica, Finland, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Russia, Tunisia, Vietnam and Yemen. If there are any that you think have missed this list, please let me know! Remember that offshore islands, especially distant small ones, are excluded.
communisteggplant
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Level 73
Sep 13, 2014
Is Eritrea close?
TenThousand
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Level 76
Sep 13, 2014
Eritrea's 1.73, reasonably close, but outside the top 20
gzx5
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Level 71
Nov 8, 2014
What about Somalia?
TenThousand
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Level 76
Nov 8, 2014
Hmm, an L-shaped country, which makes calculating the ratio tricky! Ratios have been calculated by taking a line running the length of the country (the greatest end-to-end distance) and noting its length and direction. The "width" has been calculated as the greatest distance across the country, on a line roughly perpendicular to the first one. On that basis, Somalia is 2.21, outside the Top 20. But if you use a line at any angle that feels like it's going from one side of Somalia to the other along it's L-shaped length, the ratio would be 3.30, 13th on the list.
NQChien
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Level 66
Oct 30, 2022
Allowing for L-shaped (boomerang-shaped) countries would include Croatia, Somalia, Vietnam, etc.
ethanc
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Level 70
Nov 30, 2014
laos?
TenThousand
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Level 76
Nov 30, 2014
2.08 - there's one part in the north where it's reasonably wide.
SeekerSpock1
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Level 76
Feb 21, 2015
Belize, Vietnam, Benin, Russia, Portugal, Italy, what were their answers?
TenThousand
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Level 76
Dec 16, 2019
Vietnam 2.67, Portugal 2.57, Russia 2.46, Belize 2.33.
PjotrL
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Level 74
Dec 17, 2019
What did you come up with for Croatia? It's weirdly shaped and you can find long east-west and north-south strechtes...
Pharley
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Level 73
Dec 31, 2019
At first glance on a map, Portugal looks "slimmer" to me than Mexico or Taiwan. And how about Turkey?
CountryBoy
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Level 25
Apr 1, 2021
How is Guyana not there
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Nov 12, 2021
Great quiz idea, this should be featured! I'll nominate when I can.

Can you set type-ins to Auto? I missed NZ.

TenThousand
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Level 76
Nov 13, 2021
Thanks for your kind thoughts! NZ works now.
mrputter
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Level 81
Nov 20, 2021
I am utterly floored that Morocco didn't make it.

Indeed, I just did a (very) rough check on Google Earth using the measuring tool, and granted my methodology isn't going to be quite identical to the quiz-setter's, but based on their above comment it should be close. And I came up with ~ 2,156km longest dimension x 575km perpendicular, which gives a ratio of about 3.75 ...?

TenThousand
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Level 76
Nov 21, 2021
2.20. If the annexation of Western Sahara, currently recognised by no countries, is recognised by a majority of them, then we'll update this to 3.49.
illuminati
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Level 51
Nov 20, 2021
only 36% of people got monaco right even though the thumbnail of this quiz is monaco's map...
Dollyfroggy
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Level 60
Mar 8, 2023
I'm somewhat surprised about Benin missing the list.

How are some of these answers on here (like the second and third)? Don't the second answer and some others have more width than length and therefore have a ratio under 1? Or is it length ÷ width or width ÷ length?

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