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Countries More Populous Than Their Neighbors

Can you name the 17 countries of the world that have a larger population than any country they share a land border with?
Not including neighboring overseas territories/dependencies nor countries with no border
Also try the area version of this quiz by Gamer1162!
Population data from Worldometers, 29 September 2021
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: September 29, 2021
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First submittedMay 28, 2015
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Country
Algeria
Brazil
China
D.R. Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Country
Germany
Ghana
Haiti
Indonesia
Nigeria
South Africa
Country
South Korea
Sweden
Thailand
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
bilhat
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Level 50
Oct 20, 2015
another great quiz - thanks :)
Gyrenaica
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Level 36
Dec 7, 2015
15/18 first try
Roger77024
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Level 59
Dec 20, 2015
Great quiz.
Jerry928
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Level 75
Dec 20, 2015
Agreed - very clever!
zjwlxyrpzxx
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Level 50
Dec 20, 2015
16/18. Completely forgot Turkey and Thailand somehow.. Good quiz idea!
oxfordian
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Level 68
Jul 30, 2016
Turkey?
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jul 30, 2016
Iran overtook Turkey in the time of that comment
VARRO
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Level 46
Jan 10, 2021
Turkey is back! It should be added again ;)
Vlastimir
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Level 65
Feb 21, 2021
Look at World Population Clock Turkey overtook Iran again
2233thth
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Level 38
Dec 20, 2015
awesome 18/18 3:28 :{>
Yossarian
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Level 65
Dec 20, 2015
Nowhere in Central America qualifies?
jamesd
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Level 70
Dec 20, 2015
Just based on geography, I would have thought so as well, but it turns out that the countries decreases population as north to south, so no country in Central America is more populous than all of its neighbors.
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Dec 23, 2015
By population:

Panama

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Honduras

Guatemala

Mexico

(Belize and El Salvador are overtaken by their respective neighbors, Guatemala and Honduars / Guatemala and Mexico)

GelEGuy
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Level 61
Dec 20, 2015
Great quiz!
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 65
Dec 20, 2015
@Roger77024; @Jerry928; @zjwlxyrpzxx; @2233thth; @GelEGuy:

Thanks, everyone!

rawe
+4
Level 66
Dec 20, 2015
Missed Ghana.
quizwhizz
+2
Level 65
Dec 20, 2015
I actually thought Thailand bordered China. Whoops...
Elan
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Level 63
Dec 20, 2015
Missed Ethiopia and Algeria...
Morontague
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Level 16
Dec 21, 2015
Got 2 wrong

South Korea and DR Congo

TheQuizzler
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Level 61
Dec 21, 2015
Really cool quiz!
ponnuki
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Level 54
Dec 21, 2015
I expected to find Saudi Arabia here, but Iraq has indeed almost 25% more inhabitants.
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Dec 21, 2015
I'm glad everybody enjoyed it!
Greenland
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Level 50
Jan 26, 2016
Great quiz - you really have to think and can't just guess big countries
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jan 26, 2016
Thanks, Greenland! I guess your country is less populous than any of your neighbours?
yoyo541
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Level 28
Feb 7, 2016
What about India? Or is that a country on China's coastline?
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Feb 7, 2016
It's a country bordering China.
fitheach
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Level 58
Mar 23, 2017
It borders China over the Himalayas (either side of Nepal). Nothing to do with the coast.
JackintheBox
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Level 74
Dec 9, 2019
'on China's coastline' haha
Gamer1162
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Level 63
Jul 27, 2016
Doesn't Iran have a bigger population than Turkey?
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jul 27, 2016
You are correct, thanks!
Triviamaster2
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Level 28
Aug 25, 2016
You and your Iran. Now I have to retake the quiz.
PjotrL
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Level 71
Oct 18, 2016
Looks like a lake counts as a "land" border? Otherwise Tanzania would have a larger population than any of it's neighbours. :-)
Geographystar
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Level 57
Dec 8, 2019
No, Tanzania and Uganda have a land border west of the lake.
PjotrL
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Level 71
Sep 30, 2021
Not the border I am referring to. Uganda has less population. The only possible country to have a higher population than Tanzania is Congo. However Congo and Tanzania their border is Lake Tanganyika.
idontkn1
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Level 86
Mar 29, 2017
I think Uzbekistan is now larger than Afghanistan and should be on the list now. According to Wikipedia 32 million in Uzbekistan and 28 million in Afghanistan. Other bordering countries

Turkmenistan: 5M

Tajikistan: 9M

Kyrgyzstan: 6M

Kazakhstan: 18M

rssiddharth1
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Level 53
Apr 17, 2017
Such an interesting concept for a quiz! Good job!
MustardCustard
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Level 55
May 27, 2017
Haiti is more populated than Dominican Republic according to Wikipedia.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
May 28, 2017
Added Uzbekistan and swapped Haiti in for the Dominican Republic.
KaSPaH
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Level 67
May 28, 2017
Haiti is now in both this one and the less populated one http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/countries-that-are-less-populated-than-their-neighbors
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
May 28, 2017
it's edited, after 2 complaints in an hour.
martinz
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Level 50
Jul 2, 2017
Has Uzbekistan a bigger population than Afghanistan?
Quizley
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Level 65
Jul 2, 2017
The answer is, "Maybe." Different sources claim different populations for the two nations. Ostensibly, the source of this is Wikipedia in which case Uzbekistan is listed as having the slightly higher population.
Borgir
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Level 60
Jul 3, 2017
Thought it said "popular". Immediately thought of Canada.
geographyisthebestsubject
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Level 46
Jul 4, 2017
Soon, India will overthrow China by population.
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Jul 4, 2017
Won't be long before soon
mdjones
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Level 38
Jul 6, 2017
Darn, only missed Uzbekistan.
donkeyman314
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Level 76
Dec 10, 2017
Wikipedia says that Uzbekistan's population is less than Afghanistan's, confused as to why Uzbekistan's here?
LouRo05
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Level 27
Jul 9, 2018
darn, only missed Sweden and South Korea
Aaron197
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Level 68
Mar 2, 2019
Afghanistan has for a long time ago passed Uzbekistan's population.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 24, 2019
You're right. This has been updated. Probably had some bad data for Afghanistan previously because of all the wars.
idontkn1
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Level 86
Jul 25, 2019
What are we using as the source? Wikipedia on the individual countries page and List of countries and dependencies by population still shows Uzbekistan as having 500K more people.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 25, 2019
We now use Worldometers for our country population. Added a note. The population of Afghanistan is growing rapidly due to one of the highest birth rates in the world.
martay
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Level 66
Jul 25, 2019
This would have been much harder were the answers not alphabetical. That really helped zero in on the last couple I was missing.
ed1969
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Level 72
Sep 3, 2019
Freaking Ghana...got the rest.
MojoSlow
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Level 47
Oct 9, 2019
Yemen should be here since they have a higher population than that of Saudi Arabia and Oman (in which they border).
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Oct 9, 2019
Saudi Arabia has 34 million people.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 74
Dec 9, 2019
You are wrong, and there's no need for 'in' before' which'
Xandog
+1
Level 43
Jul 7, 2020
yemen does not has more than SA
Xandog
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Level 43
Jul 7, 2020
also JackintheBox ha you just don't know how to speak british :)
ruudsje
+1
Level 73
Dec 8, 2019
this was fun!
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 65
Dec 8, 2019
Thanks!
woshiwaiguoren
+1
Level 62
Dec 8, 2019
Great quiz - maybe just a little too much time.
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 65
Dec 8, 2019
The average score is roughly 80% so the time is good for now :)
ZR93
+1
Level 34
Mar 11, 2020
Nigeria,Uzbékistan?
Xandog
+1
Level 43
Jul 7, 2020
good point
CLD99
+1
Level 50
May 6, 2020
Turkey has re-overtaken Iran according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/, meaning it should be on here.
Xandog
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Level 43
Jul 7, 2020
Tanzania should be on here. Don't go saying "Oh but it borders DR Congo", because maritime borders don't even count.
PhantomMaster
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Level 38
Jul 7, 2020
Lakes and rivers do
GrammarBeane1
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Level 66
Aug 16, 2020
China. I can't believe I missed China.
Shamooski19
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Level 53
Aug 16, 2020
Well I missed Nigeria🤪
johnappleseed
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Level 48
Aug 20, 2020
which bordering country has more than saudi arabia?
BrennoAU
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Level 35
Aug 31, 2020
Iraq I think
dunkinggandalf2
+3
Level 64
Feb 2, 2021
After years on Jetpunk, I somehow still didn't know that Iran borders Turkey. I blame someone else.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Sep 29, 2021
With the latest update Turkey has passed Iran.
Nachtschicht
+2
Level 47
Aug 3, 2021
Nice quiz :)

Some countries are a bit tricky, its easy to forget about Haiti or South Korea

FatSpartanJediLlama
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Level 54
Aug 3, 2021
Missed Ghana and South Korea
JudgeRudy
+2
Level 63
Sep 29, 2021
Only got Ghana due to plenty of time to alphabetically guess.
AlexThirkell
+2
Level 69
Sep 30, 2021
Yeah I'll admit that wouldn't have guessed Ghana if it wasn't for the alphabetical organisation either.
vittoriaa
+1
Level 33
Oct 6, 2021
same lmao
biggus56
+1
Level 84
Oct 1, 2021
Liked it! Thank you Sweden.
Getreelgirl
+1
Level 59
Oct 5, 2021
I forgot China! (I thought I had already typed it, because of a previous quiz I had just done.)
vittoriaa
+1
Level 33
Oct 6, 2021
18/18 at my first try! great quiz!
loganite
+1
Level 84
Oct 14, 2021
D'oh! I thought about UK and several others immediately, even before hitting "start quiz." Typed the others, then never got UK thinking I had already typed it. Maddening...
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