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Countries by Coastline Per Capita

Which countries have the most meters of coastline per person?
The country in GOLD includes an overseas region
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First submittedJuly 11, 2020
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Per person
Country
15.3 m
Palau
13.2 m
Iceland
10.8 m
Marshall Islands
9.42 m
Bahamas
8.64 m
Kiribati
8.01 m
Denmark
7.78 m
Tuvalu
6.89 m
Vanuatu
Per person
Country
5.46 m
Solomon Islands
4.90 m
Norway
3.44 m
Canada
3.33 m
Tonga
3.05 m
F. S. Micronesia
2.99 m
Seychelles
2.81 m
Fiji
Per person
Country
2.28 m
Saint Kitts and Nevis
1.97 m
New Zealand
1.94 m
Dominica
1.89 m
Antigua and Barbuda
1.88 m
Belize
1.66 m
Nauru
1.58 m
Chile
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21 Comments
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Level 68
Dec 2, 2020
Great quiz! Thanks!
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Level 80
Oct 7, 2021
Any thoughts of using this for length of coastline? https://www.jetpunk.com/info/countries-by-coastline

nice idea!

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Level 82
Sep 22, 2024
Fun quiz!

Only drawback is that the length of coastline is so highly scale dependent. For example the official estimate for Finland's coastline is about 46000 km. This is ten times more than the value used in this quiz.

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Level 61
Sep 22, 2024
Even though I flunked it really badly, great quiz!
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Level 75
Sep 22, 2024
What a weird unit though. It's one of the last things I would try to compare to the population. In fact, I'd probably come up with a quiz idea about population per capita before coming up with this.
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Level 78
Sep 23, 2024
But what if everyone wants to go to the coast at the same time? It's important to know how much room you have between you and the next person :-)
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Level 71
Sep 23, 2024
Wonder what country has the least coastline per capita (excluding landlocked countries)? My money's on the DRC, though Bosnia might be up there too!
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Level 59
Sep 30, 2024
I'm thinking of Iraq too
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Level 96
Sep 23, 2024
Shocked Australia didn't make the cut. Kind of baffled actually.
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Level 74
Sep 30, 2024
And Croatia.
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Level 63
Sep 30, 2024
Australia is 1.273 meters/people. Croatia is 0.706 meters/people.
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Level 96
Sep 25, 2024
Sao Tome and Principe?
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Level 63
Sep 30, 2024
São Tomé and Principe is 0.781 meters/people.
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Level 30
Sep 30, 2024
i got 19 out of 22. only left out on Vanuatu, Solomon islands and Belize, but can someone explain to me what "coastline per capita" means? and how it is measured?

i just guessed Countrys with big coastlines and island countrys.

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Level 66
Sep 30, 2024
They found the length of the coastline for each country and the population, then divided the length of coastline by the population.
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Level 63
Sep 30, 2024
Per capita means per person.
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Level 59
Sep 30, 2024
The quiz would be way more interesting without island countries / or non-bordering countries in my opinion
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Level 52
Sep 30, 2024
I must really be addicted to do these types of quizzes
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Level 59
Oct 2, 2024
got belize but missed tonga
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Level 45
Sep 19, 2025
got belize but missed iceland...
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Level 69
Apr 18, 2026
got belize but missed norway ......