Top 20 Countries Wider than Tall

I love this methodology. Even if I did try archipelagic countries that are aligned east-west.

Ah ok, so it is not most western and most easter point. I wanted to suggest to put this in the description, but I see you made a reference...

I always scan the description see if there anything important, no keywords jumped out at me, I skimmed over it (I guess because the sentence is so short and all but the word methodology have no significant meaning, so it didnt register as an important sentence I needed to read fully)

I'm not too sure about this methodology as it excludes places such as Panama, which is incredibly wide and not very tall when you view it on a map, but as it's a ~ shape it's not counted :(

I feel like it'd be better to allow the line to pass over the sea so long as it ends up at the furthest away bit of the country at the same latitude, that even excludes the archipelagos in the same way as the original method as it’s unlikely there’s another island at the exact same latitude and if there is, it’d likely get crowded out my all the places where there isn’t another island.

This methodology is flawed in that countries with particularly large bays/inlets that are east/west aligned would have an advantage. Take Guinea-Bissau, which doesn't have very many long north/south lines but does have relatively long east/west lines... but its overall shape is pretty round. By this metric, a C shape would be much wider than it is tall despite that when you look at it it seems very round, or maybe even taller than wide.

Total north/south and east/west expanse would make more sense, and to not conflate countries like the US or France, ignore territories/overseas departments

Not unless you rotate it, and then all distinction between tall and wide get lost, is it tall and not wide or is it wide and not tall?

Same. thought if a Central American country was on the list, it would certainly be this one, so when it didn't work, I didn't even try other countries in this region. Missed Honduras and El Salvador.

Morocco is pretty diagonal, thus making it tall and panama curves quite a bit. North East South West Extremes would over inflate some countries like France and the US.

Your methodology makes sense but would over inflate countries like France or America to giant sizes, because America's Western, Eastern, Southern, and Northern-most points are all in Alaska and Hawaii, and France's Southern-most and Western-most points are in The Caribbean and French Guyana., Also Yemen and Oman are pretty tall by you own methodology, they just orient diagonally.

Is more diagonal.

the mythology is different though, using this mythology you might get countries with extremes like Hawaii, Alaska or French Guyana that are not proportionate to the country's general position.

Pretty diagonal still.