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Countries with the Longest Perimeter
Name the countries with the longest coastline and borders added together.
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| First submitted | July 16, 2015 |
| Last updated | April 22, 2019 |
| Times taken | 13,861 |
| Rating | 4.74 |
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PancakeGamer
+1
level 24
May 19, 2016
OMG I spelled Greece wrong.... *facepalm*
Quizzer6794
+1
level 57
May 20, 2016
Didn't 47% of quiz takers also spell Greece incorrectly? ;)
mf3
+3
level 79
Apr 22, 2019
I guess misspelling Grease no longer matters in 2019.
Arp2600
+5
level 77
Apr 28, 2019
And I wonder why. Was the quiz incorrect? No borders changed recently...
georgekotz
+7
level 67
Jul 2, 2019
@Arp2600: It's not the borders, but rather the coastline. It's a matter of the so-called coastline paradox, that is, the impossibility of calculating the precise length of a country's coastline due to the infinite detail with which you can draw its outline. This results in the absence of a reliable worldwide source for coastline length. Jetpunk has recently switched to a database personally created by the Quizmaster, which has the inevitable fault of underestimating the coastline length of some countries, especially those with: 1) very complex coastlines and 2) poor topographic data available publicly or at least to the Quizmaster. Greece definitely fits the first and probably the second of the above criteria, therefore it fell back in the rankings. Still, most other readily available databases contain great inaccuracies which the Quizmaster has avoided by at least using a uniform methodology, making his list possibly the best out there.
MyMindWentBlank
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level 52
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.
GeoDude
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level 53
Apr 22, 2019
Got all but New Guinea... this quiz has Greenland!
redsplat
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level 75
Apr 23, 2019
Fabulous idea for a quiz. Kazakhstan gets me every time.
kalbahamut
+1
level 76
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.
APHill
+11
level 71
Apr 23, 2019
I can't believe Monaco isn't on here.
angrobper14
+4
level 73
Apr 24, 2019
They didn't make the list just by the slightest of margins.
1800didiaskyoutho
+3
level 43
Apr 24, 2019
Same, except Vatican City.
JackintheBox
+1
level 55
Jul 2, 2019
And so is the Vatican City ;)
JackintheBox
+1
level 55
Jul 2, 2019
Monaco is very small ;)
Vekoma
+1
level 47
Apr 23, 2019
Ahh I forgot about Greenland so I got all but Denmark.
tshalla
+2
level 67
Jul 2, 2019
Yup. I was down to some ridiculous things. My time would have been better spent reading the instructions than typing Peru.
dsaved
+1
level 51
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.
lucd13
+1
level 62
Jul 2, 2019
Thank goodness I recently spent the long weekend in PNG, so it was still fresh on my mind.
imalittledespot
+1
level 67
Jul 2, 2019
Doh. I started off on the right track, then detoured into thinking only of countries with coastlines. Good quiz!
slide12
+1
level 40
Jul 2, 2019
I know it's Myanmar now, but please accept Burma.
Quizmaster
+1
level ∞
Jul 2, 2019
Burma is accepted.
undeadwarrior
+1
level 50
Jul 3, 2019
Is PNG really as large as Kazakhstan? I'm shocked!
bmjs98
+1
level 43
Jul 4, 2019
No, but its coastline is.
bmjs98
+1
level 43
Jul 4, 2019
Always forget Papua New Guinea. Always.
Herbert
+1
level 26
Jul 6, 2019
Got 17/21. Missed USA
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