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Countries with the Shortest Coastlines

Name the 20 countries bordering the sea that have the shortest coastlines.
Only coastlines to open sea, so no lakes and what have you
Source with one modification. Numbers are approximate.
Quiz by ruudsje
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First submittedSeptember 22, 2012
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km
Borders
Country
4
Mediterranean Sea
Monaco
20
Adriatic Sea
Bosnia and Herzegovina
24
Pacific Ocean
Tuvalu
26
Gulf of Aqaba
Jordan
30
Pacific Ocean
Nauru
37
Atlantic Ocean
D. R. Congo
47
Gulf of Trieste
Slovenia
56
Gulf of Guinea
Togo
58
Persian Gulf
Iraq
67
North Sea
Belgium
km
Borders
Country
80
Atlantic Ocean
Gambia
84
Caribbean Sea
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
90
Baltic Sea
Lithuania
97
Atlantic Ocean
Barbados
121
Gulf of Guinea
Benin
121
Caribbean Sea
Grenada
135
Caribbean Sea
St. Kitts and Nevis
148
Caribbean Sea
Dominica
153
Caribbean Sea
Antigua and Barbuda
158
Caribbean Sea
Saint Lucia
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50 Comments
kalbahamut
+6
Level 81
Jan 27, 2013
Tough one. Managed to get 11. If I'd had another 30 seconds would have got 15 or 16. Another 2 minutes and maybe would have got them all except maybe Iraq or Bosnia.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Apr 17, 2013
I forgot I'd taken this before. Took it again and scored 15 this time, better than last time, though I forgot Gambia and Lithuania which I got the 1st time around, and I got Iraq and Bosnia this time. I think this one's definitely harder than the longest coastlines quiz.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Feb 25, 2014
Forgot I had taken this twice and took it a third time. :P This time I got 15 again, though I missed different ones. The only two I've never got were Belgium and Slovenia. Belgium is always a surprise to me. Haha.
rawe
+2
Level 66
Apr 2, 2015
Hahaha. Got 17 in my first time!
RedLightning
+9
Level 47
Feb 20, 2020
Thanks all of you for the answers
kalbahamut
+3
Level 81
Mar 14, 2020
you're welcome. I managed to get all of them with 22 seconds remaining this time... I remembered taking it before but had forgotten I'd done so poorly.
JonOfKent
+2
Level 58
Jun 15, 2020
Yes, Belgium surprises me as well. Interesting fact about the Belgian coastline: the whole length of it is served by a tram line, the longest single tram line in the world. So there.
OttoVonBismarck7
+1
Level 59
Jul 9, 2017
ahhh!!! I only forgot Dominica
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Feb 19, 2020
For this quiz we are using the World Factbook data instead of our own data because there were some problems in our data with Singapore, Gambia, and D. R. Congo due to inaccurate coastline resolution.
Dollyfroggy
+4
Level 63
Oct 2, 2021
You used someone else's data instead of your own which you said is 'the best data source available'?
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
May 5, 2022
Yep. Their data is better for a few of the smaller countries. Ours is still way better overall.

I've got a great idea though. Why don't you make your own?

gnorrn
+2
Level 22
Jun 22, 2022
Not necessarily inaccurate -- there is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
sillie
+1
Level 76
Feb 19, 2020
The seas help a lot. The only one I missed was Gulf of Aqaba, had no idea where that is.
Guam
+1
Level 60
Feb 20, 2020
The Gulf of Aqaba is hard to remember because it is so near to two much more talked about waterways: the Red Sea and Suez Canal.
FlickerP
+1
Level 75
Jun 4, 2021
It is actually a part of the Red Sea
Wistful
+1
Level 72
Feb 16, 2024
If anything, that actually makes it easier to remember. If I tried telling you where the Halmahera Sea is, saying "Oh, it's near the Ceram and Molucca Sea in Indonesia" isn't going to help very much.
Sifhraven
+4
Level 73
Mar 14, 2020
I didnt know either, but by the name I was 99% sure it was middle east somewhere
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 87
Jan 4, 2024
Aqaba? What's Aqaba to him or he to Aqaba that he should weep for her?
Chad
+1
Level 64
Feb 20, 2020
What about Bahrain, surely it has a smaller coastline than some of these countries i.e. Lithuania.
TurkeyCookTime
+4
Level 82
Feb 20, 2020
Bahrain has many islands with rugged coastlines, so it is longer than it looks
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Feb 21, 2020
it keeps getting bigger year by year
Charliezard
+1
Level 66
Nov 11, 2021
It's fractalline.
Lojants
+2
Level 73
Mar 11, 2020
Got 18, surprising answers for sure!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 73
Mar 14, 2020
Apparently I did this quiz before, scored one more this time 17. Never got bosnia, differnent ones missed before
Staypawsom3YT
+4
Level 39
Mar 16, 2020
Me (Filipino): Well, my country’s not gonna be here.
ddddan
+5
Level 82
Mar 17, 2020
Nor mine (Canada)
frost2x
+1
Level 52
Mar 16, 2020
I'm surprised not many people knew about the Iraq coast line
Algarve
+1
Level 71
Mar 17, 2020
Missed the one that touches the North Sea :/
JonOfKent
+4
Level 58
Jun 5, 2020
I like the idea but I'm afraid I lost interest rather once I realised it was substantially another "think of small island countries" one. Might be more interesting with island nations left out, or at least separated into a separate area.
EcceHomo
+3
Level 83
Dec 7, 2020
Agreed. I think it would be better to have countries with the shortest coastlines that are not island nations.
FolgoreCZ
+2
Level 59
Oct 16, 2021
Actually, only 9 out of 20 are like that, so your treshold for these things seems a little bit too harsh to me. Plus 7 of those are from the Caribbean, so you can just write down the Caribbean ones at the start and then proceed to the normal, slightly shorter quiz you were looking for.
Philguypi
+1
Level 48
Feb 22, 2021
I was so surprised that Bahrain didn't make the list!
SaorAlba
+2
Level 62
Mar 22, 2021
'with one modification' let me guess, the Zionists are pretending Palestine doesn't exist again? It's almost impressive that you've managed to stick with this line for so long.
AverageLondoner
+1
Level 57
Oct 28, 2021
i mean Jetpunk is based on de facto situations and although I want \palestine to be a country, in reality it has no control over its own borders and most of its road and services are Israeli
bxtterflyfx
+1
Level 73
Dec 9, 2021
Why isnt Israel on here? Doest It have a coast of like 5 miles on the Gulf of Aqaba?
elcampeador
+6
Level 79
Jan 14, 2022
This is for total coastline. Israel also borders the Mediterranean
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 53
Feb 23, 2022
why is barbados atlantic ocean and not caribbean sea?
DukeOfLorraine
+5
Level 65
Apr 25, 2022
Outside of the arc formed by the lesser antilles.
CapitalsIsMyGoal
+1
Level 52
Sep 1, 2024
Somehow i missed Barbados while trying to name all the lesser antilles countries
danstorm
+1
Level 66
Jun 22, 2022
What about Singapore?
zfamdam
+1
Level 59
Jun 22, 2022
193 km. Little bigger than one would think and its 100% an island with nooks and crannies
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 87
Jul 18, 2022
Whoa! I never would have expected it to be that big!

(I know, I know... that's what she said.)

zfamdam
+1
Level 59
Jun 22, 2022
Croatia is so mean :(
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Jun 22, 2022
Crazy how a country as big as the Congo has such a tiny coastline. Somehow it would be more believable if the entire country were landlocked rather than it being the way it is.
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 87
Jul 18, 2022
I'm with you there. One wonders (and perhaps someone here knows) if there is a story behind that.
FadKrashmor
+1
Level 71
Oct 5, 2023
I missed Tuvalu, which I discounted as a possibility since I thought that it was composed of many islands. Well, not quite so many as it turns out, wikipedia says 3 reefs and 6 atolls. Even so Wikipedia also says that the country's area is 26 sq. km; I am struggling to imagine islands of that area that have a coastline only 24 km long.
YTBRSosyalEmre
+1
Level 65
Jan 20, 2024
"Why i can't think of any countries??"

*Remembers that Caribbean exists*

"OH..."

EnlightWolif
+1
Level 48
Mar 16, 2024
hard quiz. lost to grenada, otherwise i did well
TheQuizPerson
+1
Level 54
Mar 30, 2024
I got 16/20. Missed Tuvalu, Jordan, D. R. C. and Iraq.
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