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Countries With the Longest Coastlines Quiz

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You get a few guesses per floor. Land it on your first guess for 10 points; a near miss still scores. After the coastlines round, four more lists from the same topic keep the ride going.

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  1. Canada 202,080 km
    Its Arctic Archipelago has 36,563 islands, several of them among the largest on Earth.
  2. Norway 83,281 km
    The Sognefjord, its longest fjord, reaches 205 km inland from the ocean.
  3. Indonesia 54,716 km
    Komodo dragons, the largest living lizards, live wild only on a handful of its islands.
  4. Russia 37,653 km
    At the Bering Strait, Russia and Alaska are only about 82 km apart.
  5. Philippines 36,289 km
    The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,641 islands.
  6. Japan 29,751 km
    A 2023 recount using digital maps raised Japan's island total from 6,852 to 14,125.
  7. Australia 25,760 km
    The Great Barrier Reef stretches for more than 2,300 km off Queensland.
  8. United States 19,924 km
    Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other US states combined.
  9. New Zealand 15,134 km
    Fiordland, on its southwest coast, gets 5,000 to 8,000 mm of rain a year.
  10. China 14,500 km
    The Port of Shanghai overtook Singapore in 2010 as the world's busiest container port.
  11. Greece 13,676 km
    Counts of Greek islands range from about 1,200 to 6,000, depending on how small you go.
  12. United Kingdom 12,429 km
    Coton in the Elms, about 110 km from the coast, is one of the UK's farthest places from the sea.
  13. Mexico 9,330 km
    The Baja California peninsula is 1,247 km long, with about 65 islands off its shores.
  14. Italy 7,600 km
    Venice is built on 118 small islands separated by canals.
  15. Brazil 7,491 km
    Praia do Cassino in southern Brazil is often claimed as the world's longest beach.
  16. Denmark 7,314 km
    No place in Denmark is more than 52 km from the coast.
  17. Turkey 7,200 km
    Turkey has coasts on four seas: the Black Sea, Marmara, Aegean and Mediterranean.
  18. India 7,000 km
    A 2024 remeasurement put India's coastline at 11,098 km, up from 7,516 km in 1970.
  19. Chile 6,435 km
    Chile stretches over 4,300 km north to south but averages only 175 km wide.
  20. Micronesia 6,112 km
    Nan Madol, a ruined city of 92 artificial islets, lies off the island of Pohnpei.
  21. Croatia 5,835 km
    Croatia has 1,246 islands and islets in the Adriatic Sea.
  22. Solomon Islands 5,313 km
    The WWII Guadalcanal campaign was fought there from August 1942 to February 1943.
  23. Papua New Guinea 5,152 km
    Around 840 living languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
  24. Argentina 4,989 km
    Ushuaia, on Tierra del Fuego, claims the title of the world's southernmost city.
  25. Iceland 4,970 km
    The island of Surtsey rose out of the sea in an eruption that lasted from 1963 to 1967.
  26. Spain 4,964 km
    At the Strait of Gibraltar, Europe and Africa are just 14.3 km apart.
  27. France 4,853 km
    The tide at Mont-Saint-Michel can vary by about 14 m between high and low water.
  28. Madagascar 4,828 km
    Over 90% of Madagascar's wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth.
  29. Malaysia 4,675 km
    The South China Sea splits Malaysia in two: the Malay Peninsula and northern Borneo.
  30. Estonia 3,794 km
    Besides Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, Estonia has over 2,200 other islands and islets.
  31. Cuba 3,735 km
    Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean by area.
  32. Bahamas 3,542 km
    Columbus probably first landed in the Americas on San Salvador Island, Bahamas, in 1492.
  33. Vietnam 3,444 km
    Ha Long Bay holds nearly 2,000 islets, most of them limestone.
  34. Thailand 3,219 km
    Maya Bay, the setting of the film The Beach, was closed to visitors in 2018 due to overtourism.
  35. Sweden 3,218 km
    The Stockholm Archipelago has slightly over 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.
  36. Colombia 3,208 km
    Cartagena's colonial walled city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.
  37. Somalia 3,025 km
    Somalia has more camels than any other country.
  38. Morocco 2,945 km
    Morocco has coasts on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
  39. Venezuela 2,800 km
    Angel Falls, at 979 m, is the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall.
  40. South Africa 2,798 km
    Cape Agulhas, not the Cape of Good Hope, is the southern tip of Africa.

Source: CIA World Factbook: Coastline (final edition, archived) · as of 2026-01

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