Rank
|
Category
|
Countries
|
2
|
Shares the shortest border with Thailand
|
Malaysia
|
3
|
Smallest country where more than half the population is Buddhist
|
Bhutan | Sri Lanka
|
3
|
Highest % of people living in slavery [1]
|
North Korea | Uzbekistan
|
6
|
Highest GDP per-capita annualized growth rate between 1990-2015 [2]
|
Equatorial Guinea | China | Vietnam | Nicaragua | East Timor
|
10 (t)
|
Most recent to join the "Francophonie"
|
Armenia | Andorra | Greece | North Macedonia | Albania | São Tomé and Príncipe | Cape Verde | Moldova | Switzerland
|
2
|
Its government committed the deadliest genocide
|
Germany
|
6
|
First to directly gain independence from France
|
Haiti | Vietnam | Syria | Lebanon | Laos
|
9 (t)
|
Highest number of "provinces" [3]
|
Algeria | Vietnam | Afghanistan | Indonesia | Dominican Republic | Iran | Bulgaria | D.R. Congo
|
4
|
Longest-serving current Asian monarch
|
Brunei | Jordan | Bahrain
|
3
|
First to restore its monarchy since 1900
|
Spain | Kuwait
|
3
|
Had a single-party Marxist state the shortest period
|
Ethiopia | Grenada
|
4
|
Longest-serving non-royal current state leader
|
Cameroon | Equatorial Guinea | Iran
|
8
|
Newest flag in Asia
* by adoption of its current design
|
Myanmar | Iraq | Georgia | East Timor | Bahrain | Afghanistan | Oman
|
4
|
Most populous capital starting with P [4]
|
France | Haiti | North Korea
|
7
|
Highest industrial production growth rate
[5]
|
Libya | Kyrgyzstan | Sierra Leone | Maldives | Yemen | Nepal
|