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Longest Border by Country #2

For each selected country, name the country that shares its longest international border.
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Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: December 11, 2019
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First submittedMay 29, 2012
Times taken95,596
Average score87.5%
Rating4.96
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Country
Length
Longest Border
United States
8893 km
Canada
Sweden
1619 km
Norway
North Korea
1416 km
China
Costa Rica
330 km
Panama
Iran
1458 km
Iraq
China
4677 km
Mongolia
Ireland
360 km
United Kingdom
Nicaragua
922 km
Honduras
Indonesia
1782 km
Malaysia
Sudan
1937 km
South Sudan
Russia
6846 km
Kazakhstan
Thailand
1800 km
Myanmar
Country
Length
Longest Border
Latvia
453 km
Lithuania
Brazil
3400 km
Bolivia
Greece
494 km
Bulgaria
Bolivia
3400 km
Brazil
Germany
815 km
Czech Republic
Spain
1214 km
Portugal
Pakistan
2912 km
India
Belgium
620 km
France
Oman
676 km
Saudi Arabia
Eritrea
912 km
Ethiopia
Lebanon
375 km
Syria
Nepal
1690 km
India
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Level 29
May 29, 2012
Phew first 100% I've gotten in a long time
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Level 57
Jan 17, 2015
Me too!
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Level 41
Jun 10, 2017
Same
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Level 55
Jul 5, 2018
same, was kinda easy. greece tripped me up
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Level 66
Sep 30, 2018
Bulgaria was the only one I had to go back to
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
I wonder why, I saw that greece scored the lowest. I knew it immediately, while with some others I needed another guess, and germany totally threw me for a loop.

Edit: I looked it up and it is NOT czechia, it IS actually austria. Czechia is 704 km and austria 801km...

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Level 47
Apr 22, 2023
the CIA world Factbook says that the border with Austria is longer so I agree w u but jetpunk differs a lot with its border lengths so I think we should just go w QMs interpretation
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Level 36
Nov 12, 2023
Yeah
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Level 28
Aug 7, 2019
Bolivia got me thinking, but for the most part easy. GREAT QUIZ! ;)
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Level 59
May 5, 2020
Germany was the hardest for me.
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Level 57
Oct 27, 2021
@Sifhraven: The numbers I find both are 815 km :p But Germany-Austria 815,9 so I guess you're right.
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Level 31
Feb 21, 2022
Germany and Czech republic is the hardest for me i thought it was poland at first and then did Netherlands, Belgium, France Austria, Denmark, and then lastly Czech. Republic, but no Switzerland.
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Level 25
Feb 22, 2022
it was germany for me, i knew greece

but brazil and bolivia is weird

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Level 69
May 29, 2012
Bolivia and Brazil.....how could i not see that, they're both in there back and forth and vice versa times 2
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Level 38
Jun 21, 2016
same lol!
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
you forgot in stereo as a pair
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Level 50
May 30, 2012
forgot Greece/Bulgaria.
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Level 37
May 31, 2012
Me too
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Level 25
Jan 18, 2015
me three..
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Level 35
Dec 23, 2012
all with 57left.
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Level 17
Mar 29, 2013
100 procent in one go with 2:38 left
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Level 66
Jul 5, 2018
how do you have 100 procent?
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Level 20
Jan 16, 2019
When your so pro that even your percentages turn pro
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Level 75
May 24, 2019
*you're
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Level 57
Oct 27, 2021
How can you not have 100 percent? :p
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Level 25
Feb 22, 2022
oh yeah̉¿ i got 100 prodollar
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Level 31
Mar 24, 2023
Bro said procent
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Level 13
Jul 4, 2013
Fun! missed bulgaria and south sudan...
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Level 67
Nov 5, 2013
When Chad didn't work for Sudan, tried Ethiopia knowing full well that that border was significantly shortened with South Sudan's recent independence. DUH!!!!!! Took a good 30 seconds before I realized my complete ignorance. Face meet palm!
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Level 62
Oct 22, 2020
Also, South Sudan didn’t even steal from the Sudan/Chad border, since it doesn’t start until quite a way further south!
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Level 47
Apr 22, 2023
@wolfcat95 meant that Ethiopias border was shortened
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Level 54
Dec 31, 2013
70% got brazil to bolivia

69% got bolivia to brazil

mind blown

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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
they thought it was a trick question, and didnt want to fall for the trick? something like that
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Level 33
Aug 7, 2019
I bet they just didn't think about it whatsoever
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2021
84% and 83% now.
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Level 66
Nov 11, 2023
Maybe they thought Brazil's was some random South American country, but somehow knew Bolivia's—or vice versa.
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Level 77
May 18, 2014
I find those borders surprisingly long! They don't look that big on a map, figures. Measuring every twist and turn I guess?
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Level 26
May 19, 2014
24/24 Malaysian here... nearly forgot Malaysia/indonesia @_@, . keep up the quizzes! : )
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Level 65
Jan 4, 2015
Great quiz, but I think the format makes it too easy. One can just guess every country that the given country borders. I did that for the ones that I didn't already know and got 100% with time to spare.
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Level 75
Jun 11, 2017
Some of us don't know every country's borders. I had trouble with several, but I had enough time left to start guessing and eventually got them all and still had a minute left. Maybe the time is a bit generous but I'm not complaining.
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Level 52
Jan 5, 2015
I would've thought that Costa Rica would be Nicaragua, not panama, but I guess not
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Level 74
Feb 21, 2015
That was a bit surprising. Apparently the border with Panama is curvier and also goes out onto a small peninsula on the Pacific side, so it is longer than it looks.
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Level 23
Feb 21, 2015
Actually Pakistan has it's longest border with Afghanistan not with india
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Level 88
Jul 8, 2015
Nope.
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Level 60
May 5, 2020
I thought so too (being a Pakistani). But when i did a little research, I found out that Pak-Afghan border is 2430 km, whereas the (undisputed) border with India is 2912 km. If we include the Line of Control (disputed), then it adds up to 3323 km. So yeah, the border with India is longer.
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Level 36
Feb 21, 2015
100% it at the last second. Couldn't figure out what bordered Greece. I swear I tried half of the eastern European nations and I didn't even know Bulgaria touched Greece
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Level 52
Jan 5, 2016
Same here, got it in the end out of shear desperation at trying all of the Balkan countries
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Level 43
Feb 22, 2015
all with 2.38 the first time, think maybe needs to be hardened?
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Level 66
Jun 4, 2016
Czechia be accepted as that is the Czech Republic's official short English name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#Adoption_of_Czechia

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Level 58
Feb 6, 2017
There's me trying chad for sudan...
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Level 51
Apr 14, 2017
There is Norway Sweden has a border that is that long.
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Level 35
Jun 10, 2017
Surprised that the German-Polish border is shorter than the German-Czech Border
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
the polish border is only 476km. But according to my data (2 sources now, will continue looking if I find something that might match wiith this quiz..) austria is 804km and czechia just 701km.. Btw the dutch border beats the polish one, with 575 km>

Tbh I thought the polish border was more significant aswell. I guess you get that feeling because poland is rather big.

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Level 42
Jun 10, 2017
100% first try. Nice little quiz :)
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Level 59
Jun 10, 2017
Are you sure about Germany? I was pretty sure our longest border is shared with Austria?
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Level 80
Jun 11, 2017
Why? Austria borders the one side of Bavaria, Czechia borders one other long side of Bavaria plus the full length of Saxony.
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
the amount of sides is rather irrelevant... and the region it borders even more so...

That is like saying Switzerland only borders Baden-Württemberg but Luxembourg borders (the entire westside of) Rheinland Pfalz AND Saarland. That does not make the border luxembourg has with germany bigger than the border switzerland has, no matter how you make it sound. There is no logic in that..

All the sources I can find show that the austria border is bigger than the czech border. I could only find 1 reference showing the czech border being bigger and that is when I literaly searched for the 815 km mentioned in this quiz. Annddd.... the source it links gives the same number I keep coming across lower than austria.

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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
Besides you make it sound like czechia beats austria by a huge amount, like twice as much. Even if the 815 km is correct (for which I still not have found evidence and the pile of evidence against it just keeps growing bigger.. so higly unlikely, but I havent personally been there with a measuring tape..) The austria border is 804km, so that is a difference of only 11km. And according to one You made it sound it was ridiculous even thínking austria could be larger.

The one source I found that states that czechia-germany is 815 km also states that austria germany is 815km... so something is amiss there..

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Level 65
Aug 21, 2020
That is true, the quiz needs to be corrected. The source listed within the Wikipedia article that is apparently the source for this says that the border is 704km, different to the Wikipedia article itself.
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Level 41
Jun 22, 2017
Got them in plenty of time but didnt think Czech Republic had biggest border with Germany
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Level 40
Oct 16, 2017
Greece stumped me for a while there
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Level 69
May 29, 2018
Love these! More more more!

I like the way we can reinforce our mind's eye image of the globe by thinking more about the relationships between places- much like the series that asks about A-Z countries closest to one country...

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Level 32
May 24, 2019
BOOM as klopp would say, got it first try! 100% BABYYYYY
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
Wow germany czechia was a big surprise, the last one I got. All the other I got at first or second try but I had allready typed 4 countries before I thought of czechia haha (basicly all besides belgium and luxembourg, and only tried denmark out of desparation)
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
@quizmaster what source did you use for the germany-czechia border? Because world factbook gives a different number, and most pages ultimately have used them as their source 804 for austria and 701 for czechia)

Wikipedia contradicts itself. If you go to the geography countries you get one number (a: 801 km and c:810km) but if you go to austria-germany and czechia-germany border pages, you get different numbers (a:815/816 (only one that doesnt link to world factbook) and c:815km)

All the numbers but one give world factbook as their (dated, 2012) source but world factbook itself say something different..

The geography of germany page DOES actually have the same numbers as worldfactbook. (Austria 804km and Czechia 701 km)

So austria is consistenly shown to be around 810km (801-816) while czechia differes from 701km to 815 km while All of the different pages give worldfactbook as their source where it is shown as 701km)

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Level 66
Jul 4, 2019
Not sure if I checked the box... pressing submit is done so automatically...
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Level ∞
Dec 11, 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_land_borders
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Level 63
Apr 9, 2020
I was also concerned, different sources say different countries.
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Level 59
Apr 13, 2020
I was also very surprised. But I have just checked two different German sources and they both say that the borders to Austria and Czechia are basically the exact same length. As one of my sources is the national statistics office, I assume it to be correct (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Tabellen/gemeinsame-grenzen-deutschlands.html). Both say 817 for both borders...?
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Level 65
Oct 29, 2019
Nice quiz, but too much time.
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Level 29
May 5, 2020
Frances longest land border is with Brazil. It’s one of the “interesting facts”
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Level 43
Oct 3, 2020
oof only missed syria :(
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Level 32
Dec 11, 2020
Germany - Longest border is Austria which is nearly 70 miles longer than the border with the Czech Republic.
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Level 34
Feb 9, 2021
first try 100% 3:43 left....

YES! nice quiz!

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Level 48
Aug 4, 2021
For some reason I thought that North Korea only bordered Russia and South Korea. But great quiz.
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Level 58
Feb 21, 2022
100% first try, but Eritrea took me a while, because I read Ethiopia - since that is also the right answer I tried every country in that part of Africa, including Eritrea, but not Ethiopia...
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Level 33
Feb 21, 2022
100% first try, the germany one took me like over a minute. i have a weird habit of just typing "czech" instead of "czechia" or "czech republic" and i tried like poland, austria, switzerland, and a lot of other countries (some not even touching Germany lol) before I realized that I wrote czech and not czechia

nice quiz!

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Level 54
Feb 21, 2022
Nice quiz. SHould be in the easy/beginner section.
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Level 53
Feb 21, 2022
I'm an idiot...kept typing Iran for Iran...
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Level 48
Feb 22, 2022
The border between Germany and Austria has the same length than that between Germany and the Czech Republic.
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Level 39
Apr 28, 2022
the amount of times i tried Russia...
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Level 37
Jun 22, 2022
2:01
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Level 59
Feb 23, 2023
..nice, but too easy...
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Level 44
Jul 16, 2023
Missed one because I keep typing Irak instead of Iraq...
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Level 63
Nov 11, 2023
How long is the German border with Czechia? In this quiz it says 815 km, but in longest border by country #1 it says 658 km.

What is correct?

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Level 72
Nov 11, 2023
Wikipedia says 815, I don't know what happened with the other one.
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Level 50
Jan 13, 2024
The fact that Sweden's longest border is only 1,600 km long shows just how distorted and unrealistic the Mercator projection is. On a map, that border looks more like 5,000 km.