Biggest countries with the smallest coastline

Country area in comparison to coastline. The ratio this is sorted by is: km² Size by km Coastline. So huge country with just a little bit of coastline is what where looking for here. Top 20.

Landlocked countries excluded

Source for size: Wikipedia

Source for coastline: https://www.jetpunk.com/info/countries-by-coastline

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km²/km	Country
11113	Democratic Republic of the Congo
4817	Iraq
3309	Jordan
2844	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2533	Sudan
1985	Algeria
1943	Republic of the Congo
1136	Togo
1052	Syria
1020	Mauritania
989	Libya
931	Benin
751	Slovenia
704	Kenya
660	Angola
620	Iran
608	Pakistan
603	Cameroon
571	China
546	Namibia

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9 Comments

Level 89

Mar 10, 2022

Huh. The absence of Poland and Romania from this list surprise the heck out of me!

(To clarify: I'm absolutely not disputing anything. Just saying I was surprised at how wrong my intuition was. I would actually have expected Romania to be somewhere up in the first column. But nope, the ratio is down around 500:1.)

Level 61

Mar 10, 2022

It surprised me too, although both nations follow within the next few countries outside of this ranking

Level 59

Mar 10, 2022

I'd expect Belgium and Lithuania to be on the list, but maybe they are too small?

Their coastline/area ratio should for sure be smaller than that of Libya or Angola...

Level 61

Mar 10, 2022

both don't follow too long after, Libya and Angola are mainly so high on this list, because their coastline are extremely "straight"

Level 63

Jan 22, 2023

Huh, we both had the same idea during the same time! Nominated.

Level 61

Jan 31, 2023

Wow, your is way better though

Level 63

Jun 13, 2023

Thanks :)

Level 87

Oct 9, 2023

I was expecting Gambia.

Level 61

Oct 19, 2023

Gambia is a difficult one because the mouth of the river Gambia makes the coastline quite hard to define. If I remember correctly, this Is measured to about Kemoto (The village), so its surprisingly long