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Countries that Don't Drain Out to Sea

Can you name the 10 largest countries that are more than 2/3 endorheic basin, areas that don't drain out to the sea?
Areas are in square kilometers
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Last updated: February 11, 2019
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First submittedOctober 31, 2017
Times taken224
Average score70.0%
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Total Area
% Basin
Basin Area
Country
2,382,000
90
2,143,800
Algeria
2,725,000
70
1,907,500
Kazakhstan
2,150,000
70
1,505,000
Saudi Arabia
1,648,000
80
1,318,400
Iran
1,284,000
95
1,219,800
Chad
1,566,000
70
1,096,200
Mongolia
652,864
85
554,934
Afghanistan
600,370
80
480,296
Botswana
491,210
100
491,210
Turkmenistan
448,978
100
448,978
Uzbekistan
scambigol
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Level 75
Nov 1, 2017
interesting! where did you find the data? i am bit surprised that Russia is missing considergint the Caspian sea
interopia
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Level 83
Nov 1, 2017
China and Russia have large areas in endorheic basins, but they are small percentages of their total areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorheic_basin#/media/File:Ocean_drainage.png
scambigol
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Level 75
Nov 2, 2017
Interesting map! Despite percentage being low, looking at the map I would still guess that Russi has more than 450,000 km of basin area
joez
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Level 71
Nov 2, 2017
A nice companion to this quiz. https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/170770/longest-landlocked-rivers
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