Countries With the Most Neighbors

Shouldn't Serbia be here? It borders 8 and is within 200 km of Albania and Greece. Might even be within 200 km of Slovenia and Slovakia.

Maybe Serbia wasn't counted because every single one of their neighbors hate them. Not very neighborly. Of course that can also be said of Turkey... unless you count Northern Cyprus. And almost of Russia, possibly excluding Belarus and maybe China or North Korea.

Romania is Serbia's bestest neighbor and ew get along very well

And not all Turkey's neighbors hate them, by Middle Eastern standards anyways. Israel on the other hand...

I've spent considerable time in Romania... was even living there briefly... and that's not the impression I got. Though it's probably safe to say Romanians dislike Serbs much less than Kosovars or Bosnians do, sure. But hey, it's the Balkans, right?

"by Middle Eastern standards?" haha... yeah Turkey is between the Balkans and the Middle East... and... not at all coincidentally both regions are so troubled and full of strife. So much of all the problems in the region stem from the Ottoman legacy, including the issue of Israel/Palestine. But... who would you say doesn't hate Turkey? Georgia? Maybe. Though all the former Soviet/CIS residents I knew had this impression of Turks as lecherous perverts and sex tourists, including the girls in Batumi. Alawite Syria not really a fan of Turkey's current Islamist government, and traditionally they squabbled over how to deal with Israel. Iraq/Kurdistan/Da'esh constantly sending terrorists in to Turkey. Shia Iran and Sunni Turkey not the best of friends. Bulgarians talk only about centuries of Ottoman rape. Greeks hate Turks almost as much as they hate Macedonians. Armenia of course is still upset about that little unrecognized genocide.

Maybe if you count that little Azerbaijani exclave?

kalbahamut, Your message is a little offensive because I feel like it's been taken too far. Our president (?) Erdoğan is total shit in my point of view but they don't hate Turks (as a society), at least from what I've made out when I've visited neighbors or areas close to the neighbors.

Greeks hate Turks as much as Macedonians or the Armenian genocides are being used as excuses in your message (And I do not go against the possibility of their existence)

Ataturk actually made a BRAND NEW country when Turkey was born, going (or trying to) go away from its toxic Ottoman traditions to create a democracy, give countless rights and new laws for the public, etc.

All the terrorist attack things are the fault of Erdoğan because of his lack of management or intelligence (just SOMETHING is missing there tbf)

I don't really have anything against the Turkish people personally, I was just describing the reasons that I observed that people in neighboring countries gave for hating Turks. In my experience, quite a lot of them did. I'm not necessarily saying that they are right to... but they do have their reasons. And while yes Ataturk did found a new nation-state in a sense, there is still a lot of continuity between the modern state of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and memories in the Balkans and the Middle East go back a long ways as I'm sure you're aware.

And I'm no fan of Erdogan but, surely, you're not trying to say that the reason why Turkey has got issues with almost every single one of its neighbors is his fault, are you? Most of these disagreements go back to before he was even born.

Great! How did you work out the data? What about a version of closest to most NON-BORDERING countries within 200 km?

Nice quiz! I just did a re-measure to Italy's 18th country, Macedonia, but I still come up with 204 km. Maybe the clue for that one should be 17?

Also, I think Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia, would both qualify for this list.

Nope, I just used my head. Over and out from Country 11, and a nice evening at both a pop music festival on Danube Island and classical music at Musikverein - Mozart and Rainhard Fendrich, Austria's biggest stars of the 18th and 20th century, all in one evening!

Good quiz, makes you think. If you like a challenge try my 'Hopscotch' quizzes such as 'Mal's European Closest Capital Hopscotch'

Serbia, Poland,Germany, Turkey, France and Iran were total guesses

Be Interesting to see what peoples' approach to this was? I just thought of those countries with the most borders, and then those in pockets of lots of smaller countries

I just went for large countries surrounded by countries and then smaller countries among lots of smaller countries, still missed Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria.

I typed in all of the countries from Asia and Europe, and then just put in Brazil and Congo. It worked very nicely!

57 seconds!

Im pretty sure that Mali qualifies for your list

7 countries touch Mali. Then you have Benin, Togo, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia which are nearby. The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau might be within 200km but I think the others are too far away.

Anyone notice how most of these countries are European? Only China, Iran, Congo and Brazil aren't. That is counting that Turkey is included in Europe.

Granted, Europe has a lot of small countries. That might help.

But Europe only has 45.

France and spain are around 50st largest in size (48th and 51st) of all the countries, wouldnt call sweden and germany small either, ow and let's not forget russia. (And greenland, I will never take you for granted! But as usual you will be disregarded)

Runners up are, in order; finland, norway, poland, italy, uk, romania and greece. You could say they arent small either they are in the top 50%

@jack are you still counting yugoslavia as one country or something? How do you get 45.

1. Albania

2. Andorra

3. Austria

4. Belarus

5. Belgium

6. Bosnia and Herzegovina

7. Bulgaria

8. Croatia

9. Czech Republic

10. Denmark

11. Estonia

12. Finland

13. France

14. Germany

15. Greece

16. Hungary

17. Iceland

18. Ireland

19. Italy

20. Kosovo

21. Latvia

22. Liechtenstein

23. Lithuania

24. Luxembourg

25. Malta

26. Moldova

27. Monaco

28. Montenegro

29. Netherlands

30. North Macedonia

31. Norway

32. Poland

33. Portugal

34. Romania

35. Russia

36. San Marino

37. Serbia

38. Slovakia

39. Slovenia

40. Spain

41. Sweden

42. Switzerland

43. Ukraine

44. United Kingdom

45. Vatican City

What about Australia? They've had over 8,000 episodes.

Balkanization for the win!

I think that Romania should be here too, it borders, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Bulgaria; and is also within 200km of Kosovo, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, and Turkey is 22m less than 200km away.

Yeah I was thinking of Romania too

Just forgot Saudi Arabia