All Countries of the World from West to East by Geographical Center

Countries are sorted by longitude of their Geographical Center, going from West to East: can you list them all?
Start with the Westernmost country in the Americas!
Data from Portland State University (https://www.pdx.edu/econ/country-geography-data), for missing countries from CIA (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2011.html)
Numbers are colours to highlighted 'isolated' countries: a darker colour means a higher distance in longitude to the nearest country
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LON
COUNTRY
-112.1
United States
-102.3
Mexico
-98.4
Canada
-90.2
Guatemala
-88.7
El Salvador
-88.5
Belize
-86.5
Honduras
-84.9
Nicaragua
-84
Costa Rica
-79.9
Panama
-78.8
Cuba
-78.2
Ecuador
-77.1
Jamaica
-76
Bahamas
-74.1
Peru
-72.9
Colombia
-72.5
Haiti
-70.9
Chile
-70.3
Dominican Republic
-65.9
Venezuela
-64.9
Argentina
-64.4
Bolivia
-62.8
Saint Kitts and Nevis
-61.8
Antigua and Barbuda
-61.7
Grenada
-61.3
Dominica
-61.3
Trinidad and Tobago
-61.2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
-61
Saint Lucia
-59.5
Barbados
-58.7
Guyana
-58.2
Paraguay
-55.8
Uruguay
-55.6
Suriname
-52.9
Brazil
-24
Cape Verde
-18.3
Iceland
-15.3
Gambia
-14.6
Guinea-Bissau
-14.2
Senegal
-11.5
Sierra Leone
-10.7
Guinea
-10.1
Mauritania
-9.1
Liberia
-8
Ireland
-7.8
Portugal
-6.1
Morocco
-5.3
Cote d'Ivoire
-3.4
Spain
LON
COUNTRY
-3.3
Mali
-2.6
United Kingdom
-1.5
Burkina Faso
-1
Ghana
1.2
Togo
1.5
Andorra
2.6
Benin
2.7
France
2.8
Algeria
4.8
Belgium
5.8
Netherlands
6.3
Luxembourg
7
Sao Tome and Principe
7.4
Monaco
8.3
Nigeria
8.4
Switzerland
9.5
Liechtenstein
9.6
Niger
9.7
Tunisia
10
Denmark
10.5
Equatorial Guinea
10.6
Germany
12
Gabon
12.3
Italy
12.5
Vatican City
12.5
San Marino
12.9
Cameroon
14.3
Austria
14.6
Malta
15
Slovenia
15.3
Republic of the Congo
15.5
Czech Republic
15.8
Norway
16.7
Croatia
16.9
Sweden
17.4
Namibia
17.7
Angola
18
Bosnia and Herzegovina
18.2
Libya
18.8
Chad
19.5
Montenegro
19.6
Hungary
19.6
Poland
19.8
Slovakia
20.3
Albania
20.6
Central African Republic
21
Serbia
21
Kosovo
21.9
Macedonia
LON
COUNTRY
22.9
Greece
23.8
Democratic Republic of the Congo
24
Botswana
24.1
Lithuania
25.2
Latvia
25.2
Romania
25.2
South Africa
25.3
Bulgaria
26
Estonia
26.4
Finland
28
Zambia
28.2
Belarus
28.4
Lesotho
28.7
Moldova
30
South Sudan
30
Egypt
30.1
Zimbabwe
30.1
Burundi
30.1
Rwanda
30.2
Sudan
31.6
Ukraine
31.7
Swaziland
32.5
Uganda
33.3
Cyprus
34.5
Malawi
35
Tanzania
35.2
Israel
35.4
Turkey
35.7
Mozambique
36
Lebanon
37
Jordan
38
Kenya
38.7
Syria
39.2
Eritrea
39.8
Ethiopia
42.8
Djibouti
43.8
Georgia
44
Iraq
44.3
Comoros
44.7
Saudi Arabia
45.2
Armenia
46.1
Somalia
46.9
Madagascar
47.8
Kuwait
47.8
Yemen
47.8
Azerbaijan
50.6
Bahrain
51.4
Qatar
54.3
United Arab Emirates
LON
COUNTRY
54.5
Iran
55.7
Seychelles
56.1
Oman
57.6
Mauritius
59.7
Turkmenistan
63.5
Uzbekistan
66.2
Afghanistan
67.6
Kazakhstan
69.6
Pakistan
71.3
Tajikistan
73
Maldives
74.8
Kyrgyzstan
79.8
India
80.9
Sri Lanka
84.2
Nepal
90.4
Bangladesh
90.6
Bhutan
96.7
Burma
96.9
Russia
101.1
Thailand
103.3
Mongolia
103.8
Singapore
103.9
Laos
103.9
China
105
Cambodia
106.4
Vietnam
112.1
Malaysia
114.9
Brunei
116.3
Indonesia
121
Taiwan
123
Philippines
125.9
East Timor
127.3
North Korea
127.9
South Korea
134.5
Palau
134.6
Australia
138.9
Japan
144.8
Papua New Guinea
158.3
Federated States of Micronesia
159
Solomon Islands
166.9
Nauru
167
Vanuatu
168
Marshall Islands
172.9
New Zealand
173
Kiribati
175
Fiji
178
Tuvalu
-175
Tonga
-172.3
Samoa
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