Eurasia and Africa are NOT connected by land, if you don't count the bridges over the Suez Canal. But if you count the bridges, Singapore and Bahrain are not island countries
By this logic, North America is at least three continents because there are rivers flowing from the Columbia Icefield to three different oceans, which divide the entire continent. A similar argument would be true of pretty much any other continent.
The point is that the Suez canal is relatively shallow (less than 25m), and generally not considered an ocean or sea.
If you're going to be that pedantic: you used the same spelling as the person above you, all you did was alter the capitalization of the "b" which doesn't fall under spelling.
there are some islands that seem to be only a mile or less away from mainland china, however i can't tell which islands are owned by taiwan/china and the google earth data around that area isn't the best.
Some islands off the coast of China's Fujian Province are still under control of Republic of China. Republic of China, which we call Taiwan today, still owns 2 de-jure provinces, Taiwan Province which governs most of Taiwan island (except 6 special cities such as Taipei) and Penghu islands, and Fuchien Province (the same word as Fujian in Chinese, just spelled differently in English. Taiwan spells Fujian as Fuchien or Fukien) which only governs Kinmen County (Kinmen islands) and Lienchiang County (Matsu islands). This situation is a result of the 1949 Chinese civil war. Although the Republic of China lost the vast majority of mainland China, they still managed to hold onto these tiny coastal islands.
Excellent quiz idea, once I got warmed up it was quite straightforward. Remembered Bahrain just about, but was surprised not to see Canada. I guess Alaska is pretty big
Little Diomede Island. It's only 2 miles to Big Diomede island (Russia) and 28 miles from Asia. Mainland North America and Asia are only 50 miles away at Cape Prince of Wales peninsula.
Edit or are you are for a source that says being surrounded by water is the definition of an island?
The point is that the Suez canal is relatively shallow (less than 25m), and generally not considered an ocean or sea.
So not that close haha, I did also try it
- Canada (via Yukon) ~1233 km
- Mauritius ~1851 km
- Brazil (via Saint Peter and Paul Archipelago) ~1999 km
- East Timor ~2564 km
- Australia (via Scott Reef) ~2580 km
- Palau ~2603 km
- Micronesia ~2622 km