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Countries with Fjords

Try to name all the countries of the world that have fjords.
A fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by glacial erosion
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Last updated: February 25, 2023
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First submittedJuly 9, 2017
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Argentina
Canada
Chile
Denmark (Greenland)
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Iceland
Ireland
New Zealand
Norway
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Russia
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
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Level 66
Jul 9, 2017
I'm curious, are you not including Finland because it has only one fjord, and your description says "fjords," or is that fjord not considered a real fjord?
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Level ∞
Jul 11, 2017
Just going off the Wikipedia article. The quiz may have to be amended at some point.
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Level 66
Aug 8, 2017
That's what I'm basing my comment on. That article says Finland has one fjord.
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2017
I think you should also check out the Argentinian side of Tierra del Fuego and the surrounding islands. There are some bays that look very much like Fjords on Google Maps, though I don't know for sure.
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Level 70
Oct 27, 2017
I think Finland should be counted on this quiz.
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Level 63
Oct 28, 2017
nope, i just checked. no fjords on the argentinian side of t.d.f.
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Level 82
Mar 27, 2018
Lago Fagnano in Argentine Tierra del Fuego looks pretty fjord-like, but it's closed off from the sea accept for the diminutive Rio Azopardo.
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Level 37
Mar 4, 2024
You've also missed Australia. Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania is considered a fjord.
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Level 68
Oct 26, 2017
The finnish fjord does not seem to be connected to the ocean. I am not sure that it counts. There are quite a few other countries that have glacier cut lakes, to add the finnish fjord, the others should be added as well.
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Level 49
Nov 9, 2022
As a Finn I can say that we are taught in school, that there are no fjords in Finland. This is a matter of definition, but I didn't even try Finland on this quiz. If someone asked the amount of them, I would say zero.
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Level 72
Jul 10, 2017
The Uk and Ireland have Fjords?

I live there and I've never heard anything about them.

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Level ∞
Jul 11, 2017
In Scotland, they call them firths. Firth and fjord are both derived from the same word in Old Norse.
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Level 62
Oct 26, 2017
Indeed. As a native Danish speaker I was a bit confused at first. "Fjord" is a commonly used term meaning a narrow bay. There's no indication that they must be glacial, let alone deep. To a Dane there's plenty of fjords in (southern) Denmark, Sweden and northern Germany. I understand now that the word is used a bit differently in English.
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Level 45
Mar 4, 2024
There are a number of fjords (i.e. glacial steep-sided valleys filled with water) in western Scotland and western Ireland.

There are also a lot of rias in the UK, which are flooded river valleys, where the original valley is NOT formed by glaciers.

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Level 59
Oct 27, 2017
Not just in English, priamos, but within the geography and geology academic disciplines throughout the world.
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Level 66
Mar 19, 2020
And what languages do these academic disciplines use? Let me guess, English
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2020
You don't think geography exists in other languages? They meant that fjord has the same meaning also in French, Russian, Croatian etc.
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Level 72
Sep 29, 2020
Interesting, cheers QM. Three years later and I got both but purely as guesses.
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Level 56
Nov 11, 2022
Although I don't think that all the firths correspond to the definition of fjord being used here, and that some of them are just large river estuaries. Or am I wrong?

At least one Scottish fjord is called Ronas Voe - not a firth at all. There are a few voes in the Shetlands, although I don't know how many of them are fjords. It's a pretty good bet as well that some of the sea lochs in the Highlands and islands are also fjords.

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Level 64
Mar 2, 2018
There aren't many fjords in Ireland. The only one I know of is Killary Harbour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killary_Harbour
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Level 64
Mar 3, 2024
Killary is a fjord
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Level 77
Jul 10, 2017
I love this focus on the fjords of the world...one might even call it a Fjord Focus...
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Level 77
Jul 11, 2017
Best comment of the day for sure. Bravo
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Level 52
Jul 11, 2017
Bravo!
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Level 66
Mar 19, 2020
Panda
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Level 63
Jul 17, 2017
Omg, I bursted into laughter.
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Level 60
Oct 26, 2017
This comment deserves a bit of a fiesta.
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Level 65
Oct 26, 2017
Nice.
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Level 89
Nov 9, 2022
That pun is so bad you might need an escort out of here.
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Level 76
Oct 27, 2017
Love your fusion of the geographic and automotive worlds.
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Level 75
Oct 31, 2020
I'd like to be a Fjord Explorer.
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Level 81
Oct 31, 2020
Might have to escort you out for that pun
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Level 62
Jul 12, 2017
South Korea?
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Level 40
May 3, 2021
Japan?
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Level 50
Nov 9, 2022
Vatican City?
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Level 58
Jan 15, 2023
Abkhazia?
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Level 54
Mar 2, 2024
Mobile, Alabama?
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Level 77
Jul 26, 2017
Montenegro has the southernmost fjord in the northern hemisphere, Gulf of Kotor
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Level 63
Aug 18, 2017
Actually, it's not a fjord. It's a Ria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ria

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Level 74
Aug 10, 2017
Pining for the fjords?! What kind of talk is that?! Look, why did 'e fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im home?
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Level 55
Oct 26, 2017
Beau'iful plumage, though, the Norwegian blue.
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Level 44
Oct 26, 2017
The plumage don't enter into it! It's stone dead!
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Level 93
Jun 5, 2018
He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible!!
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Level 74
Aug 16, 2017
Can you please include the Faroe Islands? Denmark's mainland fjord is not recognized as such, but there is no doubt about the Faroe Islands. So Denmark should include both Greenland and Faroe Islands. :)
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2017
I guess overseas territories such as Kerguelen (France) aren't included, right?
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Level 63
Oct 28, 2017
Well it should be b/c Greenland was included as part of Denmark.
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Level 74
Oct 26, 2017
I suspect that Slartibartfast would be very pleased with this particular quiz!
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Level 77
Dec 26, 2020
Given that he's already won an award for Norway, jetpunk quizzes will seem like chicken-feed.
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Level 66
Oct 26, 2017
Actually, Denmark itself has fjords, there's no need to add Greenland in the brackets
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Level 59
Oct 26, 2017
Denmark has waterways called fjords, but they are not formed by glaciers with steep slopes, so they are not technically fjords - they're more likely to be rias. (In the Danish language they do use the word fjord for shallow lagoons and waterways, but that's peculiar to Danish)
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Level 68
Oct 26, 2017
Argentina has fjords on the Isla de los Estados, which is not a disputed territory, being right off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. The wikipedia article on that island mentions fjords.
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Level 90
Oct 26, 2017
From the Wikipedia article on Isla de los Estados...

"The only settlement is the Puerto Parry Naval Station, located in a deep and narrow FJORD on the northern coast of the island. The naval station, established in 1978, is manned by a team of four marines on a 45-day rotation. They monitor environmental conservation and ship movements, and provide emergency assistance.[1]"

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Level 73
Oct 26, 2017
I missed Iceland... *facepalm*
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Level 45
Oct 26, 2017
Croatia has fjords in Istria península, and even Montenegro at Kotor. Those were of glaciar origin as well.
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Level 59
Oct 26, 2017
Croatia has rias, not fjords. The Croatian coast was not covered by icecaps during the last ice age.
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Level 44
Oct 26, 2017
Only 54% got New Zealand, some of the most famous fjords in the world...I did a cruise that included Milford Sound and it was jaw-dropping! I returned and did an overnight boat trip in Doubtful Sound and I'll never forget the silence of it, even the Americans stopped talking.
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Level 88
Aug 12, 2018
Must not have had any New Yorker Jerseyans on there.
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Level 70
Oct 29, 2018
I forgot all about the existence of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Level 59
Nov 13, 2017
There is some fjord on the french island of Kerguelen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands), therefore, France should be on that list !
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Level 86
Nov 17, 2018
smh at the 1% who didn't get Norway.
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Level 48
Mar 18, 2019
Took me awhile to get Ireland
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Level 55
Nov 8, 2019
Whoopsy-dooo! Got everything right except Denmark, being quite funny since I´m danish myself :-D
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Level 65
Nov 17, 2019
Yeah, why not France if you are including Denmark? Kerguelen has quite a few fjords.
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Level 76
Mar 13, 2020
Australia has one fjord, in south-western Tasmania
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Level 57
Nov 9, 2022
Port Davey isn't actually a fjord contrary to popular belief. It's a Ria, or a flooded river valley. I always assumed Macquarie Harbour or Bathurst Harbour were fjords but none of Tasmania's glaciers ever reached the sea; however Port Davey is (or was) formed from a glacier-fed river.
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Level 84
Sep 22, 2020
When I was a kid, we had a Fjord in our driveway. We traded it in for a station wagon.
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Level 72
Sep 22, 2020
There are fjords in Oman in the musandam peninsula. It looks like there is no wikipedia article for it but there are google search results.
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2020
They are called fjords but aren't, like Lim in Croatia.
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Level 87
Sep 23, 2020
The Wikipedia article says "Kerguelen Islands." Add France?
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Level 82
Oct 31, 2020
This quiz keeps getting updated. Fjords must be coming back in style.
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Level 82
Oct 31, 2020
Is there some reason fjords are only found at extreme northern and southern latitudes? Does it have something to do with sea ice? The spin of the Earth? Or is it just convention? I remember seeing some fjord-like things when I was going up the coast of Montenegro. Are those not fjords?
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Level 82
Oct 31, 2020
Nevermind, read the caveats and I guess there's the answer... caused by glacial erosion. So... are the inlets in the rest of Europe and elsewhere not caused by glaciers? Doesn't look like ice reached that far south in the last Ice Age but I imagine the coastline is considerably older than that.
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Level 71
Oct 1, 2022
I concur with some other comments. If you add overseas territory like Greenland, you shoul add France which got fjords in Kerguelen.
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Level 62
Nov 9, 2022
Good work Bandit!
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Level 39
Nov 9, 2022
Germany is missing, also the Kerguelen Islands are (owned by France)
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Level 39
Nov 9, 2022
Finland is missing
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Level 39
Nov 9, 2022
also Estonia is missing
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Level 61
Nov 9, 2022
took me a second to get chile and argentina, was thinking northern countries the whole time
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Level 69
Nov 10, 2022
You might want to include the Faroe Islands inside of Denmark's parentheses
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Level 59
Feb 21, 2023
Please fix the spelling of "try" in your instructions. That was the first thing I saw when opening this quiz, and it made me mad. And I have to infer it's been like that since you last updated this quiz.
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Level 42
Mar 2, 2024
Montenegro technicaly has a single fjord
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Level 22
Mar 2, 2024
Full marks here! Norway was the first obvious choice, but then by logic l stuck to all the Nordic countries (was surprised Finland - the land of a thousand lakes was excluded) then concentrated on the Artic and Antarctic circles (hence guessed Chile, Argentina and New Zealand). I was not surprised that UK has fjords (Scotland's firths) but then remembered that some of Ireland's coastline is jaggered like that of mainland Greece, and hence arrived at my final correct answer.
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Level 44
Mar 4, 2024
Pakistan has fjords in the north