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Countries by Latitude Span

Which countries have LAND area that touches the most degrees of latitude?
INCLUDES all overseas territories
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Last updated: November 7, 2024
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First submittedNovember 7, 2024
Times taken18,633
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Degrees
Country
49.9
United States
41.5
Canada
40.5
Russia
39.0
Brazil
38.4
Chile
35.4
China
33.6
Australia
Degrees
Country
33.0
Argentina
28.3
India
27.0
Denmark
23.3
France
18.8
D. R. Congo
18.7
Myanmar
18.3
Peru
Degrees
Country
18.2
Mexico
18.1
Algeria
17.8
Japan
17.7
Norway
16.9
Colombia
16.8
Indonesia
16.4
Mozambique
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21 Comments
Berney
+3
Level 84
Nov 20, 2024
If this quiz includes all oversees territories as per the caveat then surely the UK should be included, with the Falklands, St. Helena, etc.? Or is it about contiguous land? If not then some of the degrees also seem wrong, e.g. the most northerly point of France is around 51 deg. N and the most southerly point of French Guiana is around 2 deg. N so the span should be around 49 deg.
cathlete
+5
Level 78
Nov 20, 2024
Well the UK itself it just about 9 degrees it looks like. If you add up the land lat. span of the other territories, I'm guessing it doesn't quite reach 7.5 degrees to get 9+7.5=16.5 degrees.

Perhaps it wasn't clear that this includes all territory but excludes latitudes spanned only by water. I also did not realize this when the longitude quiz was updated.

cathlete
+5
Level 78
Nov 20, 2024
I took a quick look and it seem the Falklands don't even quite reach 2 degrees. And these are by far the largest of the oversees UK territories. So I doubt the other territories would add enough to get the UK on here.

Moreover, I believe QM used a script to calculate all of this, which I would trust much more than my intuition.

Berney
+8
Level 84
Nov 20, 2024
OK, I see that now, it's the latitude spans of the land areas only (added together) that are included, not the total span between those different areas of land which is how I interpreted the description. Thanks.
D31415
+2
Level 83
Nov 21, 2024
I took the LAND emphasis to mean territorial waters were excluded.

If it is adding up the span of individual pieces of land, that's not an intuitive measure, so maybe description needs an example to make it clear.

Constantinos
+1
Level 75
Nov 20, 2024
This quiz is being updated every week and every time it is missing the Netherlands....!
cathlete
+2
Level 78
Nov 20, 2024
The other quiz was longitude. This one is now latitude.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Nov 20, 2024
It was submitted for the first time this morning. And, no, the Netherlands does not qualify being a very small country whose land intersects with very few lines of latitude.
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Nov 20, 2024
You can do the same quiz but about 1945 or so, then Netherlands would make an appearance
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Nov 21, 2024
this quiz but in 1900 would be pretty cool
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Nov 21, 2024
how many latitude was the USSR, British Empire, and the USA at peak?
Wardo
+1
Level 89
Nov 21, 2024
I don't think I am confused about the emphasis of this quiz but how does Chile qualify with it being such a narrow country? even Argentina is a bit surprising. all other countries make sense to me. great idea for a quiz!
Arp2600
+7
Level 89
Nov 22, 2024
Latitude. North-South. Chile is all latitude and very few longitude.
AwesomePotato170
+1
Level 63
Nov 22, 2024
No Somalia, Thailand, nor Madagascar?
In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Feb 28, 2025
mercator
Albrik
+1
Level 66
Feb 27, 2025
Includes overseas territories?

Norway has Bouvet Island, no way it's less than Chile

HooliganFanatic
+3
Level 49
Feb 27, 2025
It's based on the .1 latitude lines intersected by land, not full latitude from northernmost to southernmost point.
maximeloon
+2
Level 51
Feb 27, 2025
So basically water doesn't count.
StarWarsLover
+2
Level 58
Feb 27, 2025
Anyone else get halfway through the quiz before remembering that latitude lines run east-west... Was so confused when Kazakhstan and Mongolia didn't work, but Japan did. Guess I need to go back to school.
In2restingFacts
+1
Level 27
Feb 28, 2025
this might give someone a laugh

i got longitude mixed up with latitude. still got 18 of the countries by guessing longitude and not latitude. when i guessed chile as my 19th i realized what i was doing wrong. spent most of the quiz thinking, "this damn Mercator projection is screwing me up"

MACADAM1A
+1
Level 25
Jun 23, 2025
I thought Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Chad, Thailand, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Mongolia would be there.

I also completely forgot about Greenland for Denmark.

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