Yeah, nice quiz, this one made me think :) This continents v islands thing, I do wonder a bit about that, which gets Qatar in but Bahrain out; Andorra in but Ireland out (plus your deal about what to do with Denmark), but I guess you have to draw the line somewhere otherwise every small island country becomes an answer.
Another tough call is Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia is no more than 140 km from the sea, but it only makes up 40% of the country, the rest of which is not on the mainland.
I'd like to further the Denmark discussion. In almost no quizzes does Greenland figure in, unless there's the notation about including overseas territories.
including Greenland would disqualify it on two counts (maximum distance and more than 50% being islands). Without Greenland (and the Faroe islands) it looks like the maximum distance is about 50km and about 30% of the area is island based.
You could argue that it is more than 200 km from the northeast corner of the country to the coast, depending on where you define the border between the Geba River and the Atlantic Ocean to be. It is close, though.
Not bad. I guess it must be around 250km for Belgium (a bit less if you count the Scheldt estuary as the sea, and I bet you do to get 185km for the Netherlands). It must be close for Italy too, but I guess some places in the North are a bit farther than 200km.
Argh, I failed to read the instructions properly. I thought it was only countries that were near a coast but didn't have one, but that might make another interesting quiz.
I got them all with 6 seconds to spare. My last two were San Marino and Vatican City. Some of these are tricky because they aren't coastal. This quiz is a great geographic brain teaser!
What constitutes "ocean"? Moldova is less than 100 km from the Black Sea and Monaco is on the Mediterranean Sea, nowhere near the "ocean" side of France.
- entirely within 200 km of the coast
- landlocked
And that they are:
Andorra
San Marino
Swazilan
Vatican City
Otherwise a lot of those countries don't qualify if you want to use the term "ocean".