Top 10 American Countries by Coastline

Southern Chile has an extremely irregular coastline.

Also, much of northern Argentina is blocked by Brazil and Uruguay

Chile's fjords are both spectacular and very messy, whereas Argentina's coast is pretty neat. At similar latitudes, you see the same thing in NZ, where the west coast, or at least the southern part of it, is a jumble of fjords and islands, whereas the east coast is largely straight. Same also goes for the Antarctic Peninsula. I don't know if that's all a coincidence, or there's some reason for it.

I didn't say it was wrong. I said I fixed it. As is it is very confusing as this is an extremely peculiar use of the adjective "American." Language is a tool for conveying meaning. Unless you are intentionally trying to be vague, to mislead, to suggest, to be passive aggressive, for comic effect etc, the best language conveys meaning clearly to the most people. My suggested title would do that perfectly and unambiguously, and so is superior. There are currently 5-6 billion people on Earth who first think the USA when they hear or read "American," it's not just Americans who do that.

yes but the title I suggested would still be more clear. This title is clear if you think about it for a few seconds or a few minutes depending on how much exposure you've had to this strange use of the demonym. Mine is clear from the get-go.

I agree with Kal on this one. Not a big issue, but I originally read this as top 10 American counties, not countries, as I (a Canadian) would never refer to myself as an American.

In fact, if someone called Canada an American country, I would assume they meant a country under American influence rather than being part of these two continents.

a few minutes... seriously?? come on..

I also agree with Kal and Scott. When I first read the title, my knee jerk reaction was to assume it was about the United States, which isn't surprising considering that there are many JetPunk quiz titles that use the word "America" (or "American") as a synonym for the US.

I somehow missed the word "American" and started guessing places like Australia and Russia.

good point. oh, wait...

You couldn't be more wrong about this. You know you are wrong about this. And you continue to make comments that deliberately mislead and confuse, pretending as if you don't know you are wrong about this. You remind me a lot of a certain prominent public figure in American politics. It's not a good look.

It's certainly not "most people" who think this. Even in Germany and France. Even in Latin America. And even amongst that tiny, tiny minority of people, they are certainly aware of the more common use of the demonym, but choose to use it to mean something else for one of the reasons I outlined above. There is nobody alive on Earth today who would be confused by using American to refer to things from the USA, even if they are among the tiny handful who prefer using the term differently. it's impossible that you don't already know this. You're being disingenuous at best.

But then, Peru's coastline is quite straight and Venezuela's isn't on closer inspection on Maps.