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How Many Border Crossings?

How many border crossings does it take to from one country to another? Try to visualise the world map, and count the shortest route from country A to country B. Good luck!
Remember: If two countries border one another, there is still 1 border crossing.
Shortest distance by number of border crossings, not actual distance necessarily.
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Last updated: August 29, 2024
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Ghana - Togo
Ghana, Togo
North Korea - Poland
North Korea, Russia, Belarus, Poland
Mali - Gabon
Mali, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon
Senegal - Somalia
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia
Albania - Azerbaijan
Albania, Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan)
Chile - Mexico
Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico
Afghanistan - Laos
Afghanistan, China, Laos
Egypt - South Korea
Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, North Korea, South Korea
Canada - Nicaragua
Canada, United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Spain - Russia
Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Russia (Kaliningrad)
Cambodia - Monaco
Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, France, Monaco
Botswana - Zambia
Botswana, Zambia
Yemen - Djibouti
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti
Turkey - Malaysia
Turkey, Georgia, Russia, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia
Austria - Hungary
Austria, Hungary
Norway - Greece
Norway, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Greece
Angola - Cameroon
Angola (Cabinda), Rep. Congo, Cameroon
Panama - France
Panama, Colombia, Brazil, France
Argentina - Costa Rica
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica
Tunisia - South Africa
Tunisia, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, D.R. Congo, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa
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7 Comments
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Level 85
Aug 28, 2024
Nice quiz. A real head scratcher for me!

The Turkey-Malaysia post-quiz explanation is missing a few steps.

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Level 68
Aug 28, 2024
Thanks! Glad it was a challenge, hope it wasn't too hard though. I tried to set the timer to allow plenty time to think.

And fixed the post-game explanation for that, thanks.

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Level 55
Aug 28, 2024
Shouldn't Norway-Greece be 4, (Norway-Russia-Georgia-Turkey-Greece)
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Level 68
Aug 29, 2024
True. Good catch.
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Level 73
Aug 29, 2024
Sadly, one cannot go from Egypt to South Korea in this way.
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Level 68
Aug 29, 2024
Yeah, unfortunately not. But hypothetically, not taking geopolitical reasoning into account, it is possible.
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Level 56
Dec 2, 2024
Nice quiz, good level of challenge.

I wonder if it's worth specifying that if an enclave of a country is physically separated by other countries, they count as separate border crossings.

I was confident that North Korea to Poland was only 2 crossings (NK to Russia, Russia (the Kaliningrad Oblast) to Poland. But this was partly because the Panama-France question had come up before this, so I had assumed that once you're in a country, you can move freely into any of its territory without crossing any borders. Not brilliant logic, I know, but enough to make me confident I didn't need to pass through Belarus.