Rank
|
Category
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Countries
|
2
|
Whose flag has the highest % green
|
Saudi Arabia
|
2
|
Longest coastline on the Caspian Sea
|
Kazakhstan
|
2
|
Longest border with Iran
|
Iraq
|
7
|
|
Afghanistan | Myanmar | North Korea | D.R. Congo | Central African Republic | Syria
|
5
|
Most recent to declare neutrality
|
Mongolia | Uzbekistan | Rwanda | Serbia
|
4
|
Largest desert that is located entirely in one country [2]
|
Australia | Argentina | United States
|
6
|
Largest reserves of natural gas [3]
|
Russia | Iran | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | United States
|
10
|
Highest GDP per-capita growth rates (1990-2015)
|
Equatorial Guinea | China | Vietnam | Nicaragua | East Timor | Cambodia | Lebanon | Maldives | Myanmar
|
14
|
Longest-serving current "President"
* excluding presidents with non-consecutive terms
|
Equatorial Guinea | Cameroon | Uganda | Eritrea | Belarus | Tajikistan | Rep. of the Congo | Djibouti | Rwanda | Syria | Azerbaijan | United Arab Emirates | Togo | Nicaragua
|
4
|
Largest ethnic majority in a Post-Soviet state
|
Armenia | Azerbaijan | Georgia
|
5
|
Northernmost capital starting with A
|
Netherlands | Andorra | Turkey | Greece
|
11
|
Closest capital to another country's border
* among those larger than 100,000 km2
|
Italy | Chad | Laos | Central African Republic | Paraguay | Rep. of the Congo | D.R. Congo | Uzbekistan | Gabon | Benin
|
6
|
First to be home to the world's
largest city since 1 A.D.
[4]
|
Italy | Turkey | Iraq | China | Spain
|
6
|
Where Uzbekistan imports from the most
|
Russia | China | Kazakhstan | South Korea | Turkey
|
2
|
Longest single-word country name
|
Liechtenstein
|