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Countries Bigger Than Their Neighbors

Can you name the 14 countries of the world that are larger than any country they share a land border with?
Not including neighboring overseas territories or dependencies, but does include overseas regions
Excluding borderless countries
Also try the population version of this quiz by Quizzer6794
Quiz by Gamer1162
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Last updated: March 15, 2019
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First submittedMarch 19, 2017
Times taken111,028
Average score71.4%
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# Borders
Country
6
Algeria
10
Brazil
1
Canada
9
D.R. Congo
1
Dominican Republic
7
Iran
3
Indonesia
# Borders
Country
2
Nicaragua
14
Russia
7
Saudi Arabia
6
South Africa
7
Sudan
2
Sweden
1
United Kingdom
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Level 47
Apr 26, 2017
I think that if France is not in the list because of its border with Brazil, then the UK should not be on the list either because of its border between Gibraltar and Spain.
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Level 61
Apr 26, 2017
you're right!
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Level 60
Apr 26, 2017
I think you should read QM's previous comment on why that's a false equivalency.
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Level 59
May 21, 2019
Except French Guiana is like Hawaii while Gibraltar is like Puerto Rico, Hawaii is always considered a part of The US, while Puerto Rico is definitely a territory.
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Level 55
Apr 29, 2021
Yeah wiifly is right. French Guiana is part of constituent France even though it is not directly connected to the bigger main part. Like the continental US with Alaska.
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Level 66
Aug 12, 2021
UK is larger than Ireland, also.
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Level 39
Mar 30, 2023
uh huh, explain saint martin then
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Level 56
Apr 26, 2017
Are the countries supposed to be in alphabetical order?
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Level 47
Apr 26, 2017
Does Greenland count as an overseas territory to Denmark, and in that case isn't it bigger than Germany?
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Level 76
Feb 27, 2020
Overseas territories are not included.
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Level 48
Mar 31, 2023
Even if overseas territories were included, Hans Island off the coast of Greenland is divided between Denmark and Canada. Canada has a greater landmass than Denmark.
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Level 73
Apr 26, 2017
Saudi Arabia and South Africa are the wrong way round
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Level 71
Apr 26, 2017
South Africa and Saudi Arabia ............. feel better now?
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2019
No, Saudi Africa and South Arabia
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Level 44
Mar 30, 2023
actually sounds awesome
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Level 43
Aug 13, 2021
You made my day
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Level 60
Apr 26, 2017
Very cool idea for a quiz.
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Level 64
Apr 26, 2017
Drop that hundo! 100%!!!
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Level 88
Sep 25, 2018
Everyone has them. You must've found one someone else dropped.
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Level 57
Apr 27, 2017
Belgium is bigger than Luxembourg

SPain is bigger than ANdorra

France is bigger than Monaco

Italy is bigger than San Marino

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Level 60
Apr 27, 2017
It seems you don't get the quiz. The quiz is asking for the biggest country than its neighbors.
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Level 62
Apr 16, 2019
Belgium is smaller than Germany, Spain is smaller than France, France is smaller than Brazil (French Guyana borders Brazil) and Italy is smaller than France
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2019
that way nearly all the countries make the quiz...
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Level 53
Apr 27, 2017
South Africa and Saudi Arabia need to be swapped around, or have none in alphabetical order.
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Level 65
Apr 29, 2017
Very creative quiz! I only missed Nicaragua
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Level 74
May 11, 2017
make one for the countries that are smaller than all their neighbors! (now that I've typed it out, I'm sure you're already working on one)
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Level 39
Aug 7, 2017
Isn't France bigger than its neighbours....and the spelling for neighbours is wrong
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Level 60
Aug 7, 2017
It's been explained above. Neighbor is correct.
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Level 75
Sep 8, 2017
Neighbor is correct in the USA... neighbour is correct in the UK
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Level 65
Feb 3, 2021
Isn't French Guinea an overseas territory though and they aren't included in the quiz?
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Level 65
Feb 3, 2021
It does say overseas regions are included in the quiz but I think French Guinea is classed as an overseas territory.
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Level 68
Feb 4, 2021
No, the quiz is correct, it's an overseas region.
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Level 43
Aug 13, 2021
Only because you are Americans and have no idea what to do with the letter U.
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Level 60
Oct 26, 2021
@Brenno. You guys have the Us for no reason. I don’t have a say in what other nations do with their Us, but the way you stated your comment was in a somewhat offensive way.
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Level 59
Nov 5, 2022
No offence, but the US has some wonky ways of spelling things...
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Level 74
Mar 30, 2023
Different. The word you're looking for is "different". It's really not worth taking a moral stand over.
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Level 50
Mar 10, 2024
*offense
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Level 56
Aug 7, 2017
cool quiz!
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Level 64
Aug 7, 2017
got them all first try with 12 seconds left!
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Level 32
Aug 13, 2021
I got Sweden with 7 seconds left and also first try.
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Level 75
Mar 30, 2023
3m 23s to get one country isn't much to boast about :p
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Level 90
Sep 8, 2017
Not saying it's incorrect but Tanzania does not share a land border with the Congo. I guess technically below Lake Tanganyika there is land but at no point can you walk from the Congo to Tanzania which to me denotes a "Land Border" as the instructions read. For most of the length of the border you can't even see the other shore. Should Tanzania be counted? If you say no what would you say if Lake Tanganyika extended south to Lake Malawi and ran 200 miles further south and made a path all the way to the Indian Ocean. Thus making Tanzania a peninsula
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Level 92
Aug 14, 2018
That's an interesting point. Let me ask another question--does Iowa border Illinois? I believe they are completely separated by the Mississippi river, and there is no point where you can walk from Iowa to Illinois (without crossing a bridge, and we know those don't count.)
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Level 90
Nov 10, 2019
Actually... https://goo.gl/maps/quiSdw39qGAW9VXU8
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Level 56
Feb 16, 2018
10/10 with 2:09 seconds remaining. Thank God it's alphabetical!
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Level 51
Feb 16, 2018
Totally agree on the France thing. I guess we have to read the instructions for each quiz, but sheesh!
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Level 56
May 30, 2018
This quiz was a total nightmare! Come on - how can China not ... Oh! So OK how come India ... Ah .... so what about US ... oops! Every time you think you have thought of one another one knocks it out. GREAT QUIZ
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Level 32
Dec 2, 2018
Shouldn't Denmark be on here? Greenland is massive and it doesn't have an actual border with Canada.
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Level 70
Dec 3, 2018
The only country Denmark borders, Germany, is bigger than metropolitan Denmark. (JetPunk doesn't include Greenland as part of Denmark in quizzes about area because it is autonomous)
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Level 43
Dec 2, 2018
Gibraltar belongs to uk and borders Spain.... and I’m pretty sure spain is bigger than the uk
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Level 76
Feb 27, 2020
Overseas territories are not included
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Level 43
Dec 2, 2018
Nice quiz
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2019
Yes got them all! 12 seconds to spare, didnt think I would get there. Awesome quiz. Really works your brain hard :)
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Level 66
Jul 23, 2019
Last one i got was saudi arabia btw. And I cant believe dominican republic and nicaragua scored that much lower than the rest. For the first one, it had to be either that or haiti. And for central america they are all in a line, so one of them has to be on there. (unless the were in a exact descending order of size)
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2019
Very enjoyable quiz! Really makes you use your brain

(I like it even more because I got it right first try)

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Level 75
Nov 11, 2019
Good quiz to get the gray matter going this gorgeous morning.
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Level 57
Nov 11, 2019
Where's the good ol U. S of A. on this quiz. We're way bigger than Canada and Mexico.
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Level 67
Nov 11, 2019
Canada is bigger. It has a ton of land to the far north where very (like...very, very) few people live, but that's all Canadian land.
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Level 75
Nov 13, 2019
^ Kind of - the USA has a greater area if you only include land surface area (discount water surface area)
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Level 77
Jun 23, 2021
Fresh water is regularly included in a country's land area, even when it's not USA versus Canada.
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Level 36
Aug 12, 2021
Canada is the second largest country in the world. USA doesn't have to be in everything
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Level 36
Jun 14, 2020
Why isn't Turkey one of them?
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Level 59
Jul 30, 2020
Because it's smaller than Iran.
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Level 33
Jun 23, 2021
Americans are probably killing themselves after not seeing themselves on here, I mean, name one thing America isn’t in..
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Level 62
Aug 12, 2021
Highest IQ of most recent (non-current) heads of state? 🤔😜🤣
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Level 36
Aug 12, 2021
Wouldn't Germany/France/Spain be there.
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Level 44
Aug 12, 2021
Germany and Spain border France, which is bigger than both, and France borders Brazil, which is... weird, but still a thing.
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Level 43
Aug 13, 2021
I'm not sure the Brazilians would appreciate you calling their country weird... especially when Guiana is the weird part.
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Level 79
Mar 30, 2023
Let's imagine then for a moment how the Guyanese would respond to this exchange!
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Level 74
Mar 30, 2023
What does Guyana have to do with this?
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Level 67
Aug 12, 2021
I am from the UK and I almost forgot about the UK
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Level 62
Mar 31, 2023
I do too, and DID forget it - yet got all the others. Mega-d'oh!
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Level 44
Aug 12, 2021
The awkward moment when China, India and the US aren't there, but the Dominican Republic is.
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Level 68
Aug 12, 2021
LOL
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Level 53
Aug 12, 2021
Oh my gosh... I got everything except Russia.....
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Level 65
Aug 12, 2021
same haha
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Level 44
Aug 12, 2021
I hate that France isn't counted, I know exactly why, but I hate it lol.
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Level 67
Aug 15, 2021
France really needs to give up that part of its territory so that us quiz-takers can feel more satisfied lol.
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Level 67
Aug 12, 2021
Wow somehow got them all with 44 seconds remaining this time around
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Level 68
Aug 12, 2021
Very cool quiz.
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Level 59
Aug 12, 2021
A quiz about obscure information you can do well on without previously knowing that obscure information! Amazing!
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Level 42
Aug 13, 2021
You forgot France because France is bigger than Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium
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Level 43
Aug 13, 2021
but smaller than Brazil, which it also borders because the French took Guiana as part of the nation, and not just a territory.
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Level 60
Oct 26, 2021
I am really tired with people starting irrational complaints with “you forgot”. The Quizmaster spends countless hours reviewing quizzes, and he wont “forget”. I bet that most of the time people know the answer, but just start with “you forgot” anyway; for example “You forgot Cyprus”, in a quiz with Cyprus arguments left and right. A better way to word your complaint is “should France be included?” Or “what about France”. Just saying.
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Level 56
Oct 26, 2023
preach 😍
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Level 64
May 27, 2022
I really think Denmark should be included here. Greenland is a constituent country of Denmark and should be treated the same as any of the French overseas regions.
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Level 65
Mar 30, 2023
If counted as such, it then borders Canada at this island long contested during the Whiskey War, now split in half. Which wouldn't change the results for this quiz.
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Level 26
Jun 1, 2022
Wait, if Sudan is on the list, is has a border with Democratic Republic of the Congo, which implies Sudan is bigger, yet D.R.C. is also on the list, so it is bigger than Sudan, which is bigger than D.R.C. WHAT??
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Level 57
Jun 13, 2022
its south sudan that shares a border with the drc, not sudan itself
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Level 61
Mar 30, 2023
Sudan doesnt border DRC....
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Level 55
Jul 20, 2022
Why did I think that Iran bordered Saudi Arabia🤦
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Level 30
Jul 24, 2022
France?
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Level 61
Mar 30, 2023
borders brazil
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Level 45
Jul 27, 2022
Dominican Republic?
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Level 63
Sep 1, 2022
It borders Haiti and it's bigger than Haiti. So, yeah.
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Level 25
Oct 1, 2022
Do my gemstone quiz please
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Level 75
Mar 30, 2023
say pretty please
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Level 40
Jan 20, 2023
bruh i forgot uk

also when i wa typing doc i typd dr for Dominican Republic which was one of the answers

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Level 42
Mar 30, 2023
Great quiz! Harder than I thought it would be but got there in the end
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Level 15
Apr 1, 2023
Good quiz
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Level 36
Jul 11, 2023
if overseas aren't included, France should be in there
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Level 36
Oct 12, 2023
May I kindly ask why France - larger than Spain and Germany - not included in the list. I'm sure I am missing something. Thanks in advance.
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Level 61
Oct 12, 2023
brazil
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Level 36
Oct 13, 2023
i.e. French Guiana - thanks pal. Much obliged.