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Countries More Populous than All Their Neighbors Combined

Try to name the 8 countries whose population is greater than that of every one of their neighbors combined.
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Egypt
Haiti
Indonesia
Nigeria
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South Africa
South Korea
United Kingdom
United States
35 Comments
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Level 84
Jan 20, 2021
South Korea should be here, no?
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Level 66
Jan 20, 2021
Yes it should
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Level 69
Jan 20, 2021
Got all but egypt -_-
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Level 69
Nov 26, 2024
3 years later (approaching 4...) I got it!
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Level 36
Apr 7, 2022
Pretty Easy
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Level 79
Nov 7, 2024
Sweden just barely doesn’t make the cut by several hundred thousand. Thailand missed out by about 6 million.
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Level 65
Nov 7, 2024
damn i tried sweden too
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Level 86
Nov 7, 2024
Thailand borders Myanmar and Malaysia, combine those two alone and you well exceed Thailand.
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Level 77
Jan 3, 2025
Yes... apparently by around 6 million. >__>
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Level 91
Nov 7, 2024
Surprisingly small number.
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Level 55
Nov 7, 2024
Do more people live in the Pacific Ocean than Japan?
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Level 83
Nov 7, 2024
Is the Pacific Ocean a kingdom or a republic?
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Level 83
Nov 7, 2024
No, the Pacific Ocean is a pure democracy.
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Level 69
Nov 8, 2024
i heard there was a recent coup which turned the Pacific Ocean into a dictatorship
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Level 71
Dec 7, 2024
It's a thalassocracy!
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Level 55
Nov 7, 2024
Good idea
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Level 61
Nov 7, 2024
I know this is pedantic, but as it's currently worded, countries with no neighbours should count.
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Level 63
Nov 11, 2024
How can a country with no neighbor have a bigger population than that non existant neighbor?
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Level 61
Nov 12, 2024
Well, the sum of an empty set of numbers is zero...
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Level 77
Jan 3, 2025
But there is no set in this case. Language is not maths.
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Level 72
Nov 10, 2024
Just missed South Korea, should've thought of that
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Level 49
Dec 7, 2024
Haiti was kind of surprising for me, I always figured the DR would have more people just because it's the larger country in area.
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Level 62
Dec 7, 2024
Three of these countries only have one neighbour - South Korea only borders North Korea, UK only borders Ireland and Haiti only borders the Dominican Republic. While the UK has many times the population of Ireland and South Korea is twice as populous as it's northern counterpart, Haiti is only slightly more populated than the Dominican Republic.

Sweden and the USA only border two other countries. The US has twice the population of Canada + Mexico, while Sweden narrowly outnumbers Norway and Finland's combined populations.

Indonesia borders three other countries( Malaysia, East Timor and PNG) and outnumbers them five times over.

Nigeria borders four other countries( Benin, Niger, Chad and Cameroon) and outnumbers them about 3 to 1.

South Africa borders six other countries( Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.) and outnumbers them by about 5 million people.

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Level 62
Dec 8, 2024
Or if you count Gibraltar, UK has two borders, and still has 15 million more than its neighbors combined.
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Level 49
Dec 7, 2024
A lot easier that I thought it would be
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Level 76
Dec 7, 2024
I think bordering countries would be better than neighbors.
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Level 82
Dec 7, 2024
Not Brazil?
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Level 79
Dec 7, 2024
The only reason I could see for Brazil not meeting the criteria is because it borders France (via French Guyana). Otherwise, Brazil definitely should be on the list
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Level 58
Dec 9, 2024
You are right, Brazil borders France by Jetpunks rules, so its population is included
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Level 68
Dec 7, 2024
What is the picture of? It has to be a road in the US, but I can't place the mountain. best guess is somewhere in Alaska or Washington state given the heavy glaciation on the mountain there, but I can't think of any roads that look like that in either state. Looks kind of like the Icefields Parkway in Alberta.

Edit: definitely the Icefields Parkway, taken from just north of the Athabasca Glacier, that is definitely Mount Athabasca in the back there. Surprised it isn't a picture from a country on the list.

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Level 32
Dec 7, 2024
India most populous country in the world. How is it not a valid answer?
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Level 73
Dec 7, 2024
"countries whose population is greater than that of every one of their neighbors combined"

India population is 1.429 billion

All its neighbours combined:

Afghanistan population is 42 million

Pakistan population is 241 million

China population is 1.411 billion

Bhutan population is 1 million

Nepal population is 32 million

Myanmar population is 55 million

Bangladesh population is 173 million

So the population of every one of India's neighours combined is 1.955 billion.

Is India's population greater than that of every one of their neighbors combined?

NO

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Level 32
Dec 11, 2024
ahhh you are right! I just completely read over the word 'combined'. thanks for the clarification!
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Level 62
Dec 8, 2024
Key word is combined.
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Level 74
Dec 13, 2024
"while Sweden narrowly outnumbers Norway and Finland's combined populations" So why isn't it on the list?