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Countries with the Longest Perimeter

Name the countries with the longest coastline and borders added together.
Includes overseas regions, dependencies, and autonomous areas
Sources: Coastline, Borders
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: April 22, 2019
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First submittedJuly 16, 2015
Times taken64,389
Average score81.0%
Rating4.82
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Kilometers
Country
146,000
Canada
93,100
Russia
81,500
United States
55,300
Indonesia
48,900
Denmark
(includes Greenland)
38,900
China
37,500
Chile
Kilometers
Country
34,100
Australia
33,400
Brazil
30,000
Norway
25,100
India
20,000
Mexico
17,300
Philippines
17,200
United Kingdom
Kilometers
Country
16,300
France
15,600
Argentina
15,500
Japan
12,200
Myanmar
12,000
Papua New Guinea
12,000
Kazakhstan
11,000
D. R. Congo
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Level 61
Jan 12, 2017
This was a really interesting quiz! I spent two minutes trying to figure out the last answer, but I almost missed Indonesia because I thought I had already guessed it... but I did it with 8 seconds to spare.
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Level 72
May 23, 2023
Relevant username.
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Level 48
Apr 22, 2019
Got all but New Guinea... this quiz has Greenland!
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Level 66
Oct 12, 2019
Might be it's only appearance on this site ! (outside of caveats..)
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Level 74
Apr 23, 2019
Fabulous idea for a quiz. Kazakhstan gets me every time.
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Level 82
Apr 23, 2019
I miss New Guinea more often than I should. It was the last one I picked up on this one but still had plenty of time.
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Level 75
Apr 23, 2019
I can't believe Monaco isn't on here.
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Level 84
Apr 24, 2019
They didn't make the list just by the slightest of margins.
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Level 44
Apr 24, 2019
Same, except Vatican City.
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Level 79
Jul 2, 2019
And so is the Vatican City ;)
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Level 79
Jul 2, 2019
Monaco is very small ;)
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Level 46
Mar 11, 2021
r/woooosh
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Level 58
Oct 26, 2021
prove it
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Level 58
Oct 27, 2021
I wonder how many people have commented r/woooosh on one of JackintheBox's comments in total.
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Level 47
Nov 27, 2023
that would make a good quiz
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Level 45
Apr 23, 2019
Ahh I forgot about Greenland so I got all but Denmark.
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Level 75
Jul 2, 2019
Yup. I was down to some ridiculous things. My time would have been better spent reading the instructions than typing Peru.
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Level 67
Oct 26, 2021
I mean, Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and it's coastal, so it wasn't a horrible guess. I guessed it too towards the end.
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Level 67
Jul 2, 2019
I still think that Greenland shouldn't be included, if it doesn't count towards any of the other "biggest area" quiz. Cool quiz though.
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Level 75
Oct 26, 2021
Come on, give it a chance to appear on just one quiz on this site eh?
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Level 69
Jul 2, 2019
Thank goodness I recently spent the long weekend in PNG, so it was still fresh on my mind.
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Level 67
Jul 2, 2019
Doh. I started off on the right track, then detoured into thinking only of countries with coastlines. Good quiz!
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Level 43
Jul 2, 2019
I know it's Myanmar now, but please accept Burma.
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Level ∞
Jul 2, 2019
Burma is accepted.
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Level 63
Jul 3, 2019
Is PNG really as large as Kazakhstan? I'm shocked!
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Level 54
Jul 4, 2019
No, but its coastline is.
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Level 54
Jul 4, 2019
Always forget Papua New Guinea. Always.
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Level 50
Jul 6, 2019
Got 17/21. Missed USA
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Level 30
Dec 15, 2019
you didn't miss anything else?
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Level 65
Feb 12, 2020
20/21 missed USA?!?!?!
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Level 43
Oct 26, 2021
Wtf hahahha?
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2020
This is the quiz I wanted to be on JetPunk
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Level 69
Oct 17, 2020
HOW COULD I FORGET CHINA!!
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Level 58
Dec 3, 2020
I had two seconds left, and I just randomly decided to type 'France,' I was shocked to get 100% off a guess like that, but when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense, :)
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Level 65
Feb 15, 2021
I was playing this just as the coastline bit and got 19/21 lol. Didn't even realize or process that the caveat says 'borders included' so I missed D.R Congo and Kazakstan
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Level 61
Feb 25, 2021
I think there should be a note marking that autonomous regions count, since I almost missed Denmark. Also, I think its cool that even small countries like PNG can get on it due to their islands.
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Level 60
Oct 26, 2021
You mean like the caveat that does exactly what you asked for? Yeah, there should be one indeed. :-D
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Level 49
Oct 26, 2021
probably didnt exist when they wrote that comment
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Level 65
Feb 26, 2021
Vatican´s coastline consists of a puddle
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Level 61
Jun 24, 2021
Quite surprised that nobody has mentioned the coastline paradox yet.

Nice quiz by the way!

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Level 60
Oct 26, 2021
New Zealand has a coastline of 15,000km. Why is this not accepted?
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Level 58
Oct 26, 2021
Kazakhstan really shows how much influence the sometimes very fractal coastlines have here, when you see how much higher on the list significantly smaller countries like Norway, the UK or the Philippines are.
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Level 62
Oct 26, 2021
Yes, and this must be why Algeria is not on here (the largest land-mass country in Africa), and yet the Democratic Republic of the Congo is.
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Level 53
Oct 26, 2021
oml i got Japan on the last 4 seconds, i somehow just forgot about it but then got it :D
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Level 43
Oct 26, 2021
I forgot greenland...
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Level 61
Oct 26, 2021
yo france got 4000 more miles of coastline than Kazakhstan? I Know overseas counts, but that is crazy....
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Level 64
Oct 26, 2021
This quiz includes coastline AND borders
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Level 67
Oct 26, 2021
nobody's gonna say anything about the coastline paradox? i'm honestly disappointed in this comment section
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Level 82
Oct 26, 2021
It's been covered elsewhere.
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Level 49
Oct 26, 2021
FINALLY a quiz which counts Greenland as part of Denmark! *happy nerd noises*
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Level 60
Dec 13, 2021
got all but China... oof
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2022
Kazakhstan makes the list as the only landlocked country.
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Level 53
Mar 8, 2022
how is papua new guinea on here but not like niger when its surrounded by border lol.
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Level 58
Mar 8, 2023
Having multiple decently sized islands helps with adding some perimeter.
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Level 53
Mar 8, 2022
also greenland shouldn't be counted on this quiz because yeh its a part of denmark, but it makes it look like denmark is giant. Also how is greenland this high when its smaller than libya
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Level 60
Nov 27, 2023
Coastline tends to be very faceted while land borders are generally straight, which would explain why Greenland exceeds Libya (even with the Mercator projection helping Greenland). And your first sentence doesn't really make sense. I could say that Alaska should be left out of the US because it makes the US look large, but that doesn't have any logical justification.
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Level 68
Nov 27, 2023
out of interest, does this include antarctic claims?
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Level 61
Nov 27, 2023
most likely not
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Level 41
Nov 27, 2023
I thought of both Japan and Philippines and I just didn't think it was worth trying either
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Level 22
Nov 28, 2023
got 100% with 4 seconds left