Countries More Populous Than Their Neighbors

Can you name the 18 countries of the world that have a larger population than any country they share a land border with?

Not including neighboring overseas territories/dependencies nor countries with no border

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Population data from Worldometers, 29 September 2021

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Country

Algeria

Brazil

China

D.R. Congo

Egypt

Ethiopia

Country

Germany

Ghana

Haiti

Indonesia

Nigeria

South Africa

Country

South Korea

Sweden

Thailand

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States

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Level 64

Oct 9, 2015

Countries Less Populous Than Their Neighbors can be found here. Enjoy :)

Level 55

Oct 20, 2015

another great quiz - thanks :)

Level 35

Dec 7, 2015

15/18 first try

Level 57

Dec 20, 2015

Great quiz.

Level 75

Dec 20, 2015

Agreed - very clever!

Level 48

Dec 20, 2015

16/18. Completely forgot Turkey and Thailand somehow.. Good quiz idea!

Level 70

Jul 30, 2016

Turkey?

Level 64

Jul 30, 2016

Iran overtook Turkey in the time of that comment

Level 48

Jan 10, 2021

Turkey is back! It should be added again ;)

Level 68

Feb 21, 2021

Look at World Population Clock Turkey overtook Iran again

Level 35

Dec 20, 2015

awesome 18/18 3:28 :{>

Level 64

Dec 20, 2015

Nowhere in Central America qualifies?

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Level 68

Dec 20, 2015

Just based on geography, I would have thought so as well, but it turns out that the countries decreases population as north to south, so no country in Central America is more populous than all of its neighbors.

Level 64

Dec 23, 2015

By population:

Panama

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Honduras

Guatemala

Mexico

(Belize and El Salvador are overtaken by their respective neighbors, Guatemala and Honduars / Guatemala and Mexico)

Level 61

Dec 20, 2015

Great quiz!

Level 64

Dec 20, 2015

@Roger77024; @Jerry928; @zjwlxyrpzxx; @2233thth; @GelEGuy:

Thanks, everyone!

Level 66

Dec 20, 2015

Missed Ghana.

Level 64

Dec 20, 2015

I actually thought Thailand bordered China. Whoops...

Level 65

Dec 20, 2015

Missed Ethiopia and Algeria...

Level 16

Dec 21, 2015

Got 2 wrong

South Korea and DR Congo

Level 63

Dec 21, 2015

Really cool quiz!

Level 59

Dec 21, 2015

I expected to find Saudi Arabia here, but Iraq has indeed almost 25% more inhabitants.

Level 64

Dec 21, 2015

I'm glad everybody enjoyed it!

Level 48

Jan 26, 2016

Great quiz - you really have to think and can't just guess big countries

Level 64

Jan 26, 2016

Thanks, Greenland! I guess your country is less populous than any of your neighbours?

Level 28

Feb 7, 2016

What about India? Or is that a country on China's coastline?

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Level 64

Feb 7, 2016

It's a country bordering China.

Level 37

May 12, 2023

hasn't India over taken china in population now

Level 59

Mar 23, 2017

It borders China over the Himalayas (either side of Nepal). Nothing to do with the coast.

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Level 77

Dec 9, 2019

'on China's coastline' haha

Level 60

Jul 27, 2016

Doesn't Iran have a bigger population than Turkey?

Level 64

Jul 27, 2016

You are correct, thanks!

Level 25

Aug 25, 2016

You and your Iran. Now I have to retake the quiz.

Level 53

Nov 16, 2021

But iran does NOT have a bigger population than Pakistan, which in turn has a smaller population than india.

Level 61

Jan 16, 2022

exactly, so the solution is to just remove turkey.

however it seems that turkey overtook iran in population again.

Level 73

Oct 18, 2016

Looks like a lake counts as a "land" border? Otherwise Tanzania would have a larger population than any of it's neighbours. :-)

Level 62

Dec 8, 2019

No, Tanzania and Uganda have a land border west of the lake.

Level 73

Sep 30, 2021

Not the border I am referring to. Uganda has less population. The only possible country to have a higher population than Tanzania is Congo. However Congo and Tanzania their border is Lake Tanganyika.

Level 88

Mar 29, 2017

I think Uzbekistan is now larger than Afghanistan and should be on the list now. According to Wikipedia 32 million in Uzbekistan and 28 million in Afghanistan. Other bordering countries

Turkmenistan: 5M

Tajikistan: 9M

Kyrgyzstan: 6M

Kazakhstan: 18M

Level 71

Nov 14, 2021

Nope, Afghanistan has 39 million. Not sure where you got the 28 million statistic from.

Level 28

Nov 14, 2021

your 4 years after him

Level 71

Nov 14, 2021

Doesn't make a difference. In 2017, Afghanistan has 36 million, which was still more than Uzbekistan.

Level 53

Apr 17, 2017

Such an interesting concept for a quiz! Good job!

Level 60

May 27, 2017

Haiti is more populated than Dominican Republic according to Wikipedia.

Level ∞

May 28, 2017

Added Uzbekistan and swapped Haiti in for the Dominican Republic.

Level 69

May 28, 2017

Haiti is now in both this one and the less populated one http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/139806/countries-that-are-less-populated-than-their-neighbors

Level 64

May 28, 2017

it's edited, after 2 complaints in an hour.

Level 50

Jul 2, 2017

Has Uzbekistan a bigger population than Afghanistan?

Level 66

Jul 2, 2017

The answer is, "Maybe." Different sources claim different populations for the two nations. Ostensibly, the source of this is Wikipedia in which case Uzbekistan is listed as having the slightly higher population.

Level 63

Jul 3, 2017

Thought it said "popular". Immediately thought of Canada.

Level 60

Jul 4, 2017

Soon, India will overthrow China by population.

Level 64

Jul 4, 2017

Won't be long before soon

Level 43

Jul 6, 2017

Darn, only missed Uzbekistan.

Level 87

Dec 10, 2017

Wikipedia says that Uzbekistan's population is less than Afghanistan's, confused as to why Uzbekistan's here?

Level 46

Jul 9, 2018

darn, only missed Sweden and South Korea

Level 70

Mar 2, 2019

Afghanistan has for a long time ago passed Uzbekistan's population.

Level ∞

Jul 24, 2019

You're right. This has been updated. Probably had some bad data for Afghanistan previously because of all the wars.

Level 88

Jul 25, 2019

What are we using as the source? Wikipedia on the individual countries page and List of countries and dependencies by population still shows Uzbekistan as having 500K more people.

Level ∞

Jul 25, 2019

We now use Worldometers for our country population. Added a note. The population of Afghanistan is growing rapidly due to one of the highest birth rates in the world.

Level 69

Jul 25, 2019

This would have been much harder were the answers not alphabetical. That really helped zero in on the last couple I was missing.

Level 71

Sep 3, 2019

Freaking Ghana...got the rest.

Level 51

Oct 9, 2019

Yemen should be here since they have a higher population than that of Saudi Arabia and Oman (in which they border).

Level 64

Oct 9, 2019

Saudi Arabia has 34 million people.

Level 77

Dec 9, 2019

You are wrong, and there's no need for 'in' before' which'

Level 43

Jul 7, 2020

yemen does not has more than SA

Level 43

Jul 7, 2020

also JackintheBox ha you just don't know how to speak british :)

Level 70

Dec 8, 2019

this was fun!

Level 64

Dec 8, 2019

Thanks!

Level 67

Dec 8, 2019

Great quiz - maybe just a little too much time.

Level 64

Dec 8, 2019

The average score is roughly 80% so the time is good for now :)

Level 33

Mar 11, 2020

Nigeria,Uzbékistan?

Level 43

Jul 7, 2020

good point

Level 55

May 6, 2020

Turkey has re-overtaken Iran according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/, meaning it should be on here.

Level 43

Jul 7, 2020

Tanzania should be on here. Don't go saying "Oh but it borders DR Congo", because maritime borders don't even count.

Level 68

Feb 13, 2023

Lake and river borders still count.

Level 35

Jul 7, 2020

Lakes and rivers do

Level 78

Aug 16, 2020

China. I can't believe I missed China.

Level 62

Aug 16, 2020

Well I missed Nigeria🤪

Level 49

Aug 20, 2020

which bordering country has more than saudi arabia?

Level 43

Aug 31, 2020

Iraq I think

Level 67

Feb 2, 2021

After years on Jetpunk, I somehow still didn't know that Iran borders Turkey. I blame someone else.

Level ∞

Sep 29, 2021

With the latest update Turkey has passed Iran.

Level 57

Aug 3, 2021

Nice quiz :)

Some countries are a bit tricky, its easy to forget about Haiti or South Korea

Level 64

Aug 3, 2021

Missed Ghana and South Korea

Level 65

Sep 29, 2021

Only got Ghana due to plenty of time to alphabetically guess.

Level 73

Sep 30, 2021

Yeah I'll admit that wouldn't have guessed Ghana if it wasn't for the alphabetical organisation either.

Level 37

Oct 6, 2021

same lmao

Level 75

Oct 5, 2021

I forgot China! (I thought I had already typed it, because of a previous quiz I had just done.)

Level 37

Oct 6, 2021

18/18 at my first try! great quiz!

Level 87

Oct 14, 2021

D'oh! I thought about UK and several others immediately, even before hitting "start quiz." Typed the others, then never got UK thinking I had already typed it. Maddening...

Level 69

Nov 11, 2021

what a brilliant quiz, really enjoyed this as had to think not of the most populous countries but those that only border one other, excellent, thank you.

Level 75

Nov 14, 2021

Why does it say 17 countries in the description but actually there's 18?

Level ∞

Nov 14, 2021

There used to be 17. Fixed.

Level 56

Nov 14, 2021

Great idea for a quiz, really made me think

Level 71

Nov 14, 2021

Kinda hilarious that India isn't on here because it just happens to border the one country that's more populous than it.

Level 69

Nov 14, 2021

Only got the last one, Ghana, because they were in alphabetical order and I knew it had to start with G. You could mix up the order of the answers, if you wanted to make it more challenging.

Level 56

Nov 15, 2021

Am Swedish, missed Sweden. Lovely.

Level 23

Nov 19, 2021

boom i got all correct i kinda almost forget DRC lol

Level 36

Feb 3, 2022

TIL that Afghanistan is more populous than Uzbekistan.

Level 54

May 31, 2023

..very nice quiz..but too easy...

Level 48

May 31, 2023

India? It just became the most populated.

Level 64

May 31, 2023

Wow, didn't realize it was gonna happen now, I was thinking maybe a couple more years

Level 64

May 31, 2023

Missed Nigeria and Ghana

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