Countries with the highest coastline:area ratio

Can you name the countries that have the most coastline compared to their total land area?

source: The World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2147.html

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Coast/Area Ratio (m/km²)	Country
8,710	Federated States of Micronesia
3,310	Palau
2,160	Maldives
2,050	Marshall Islands
2,000	Monaco
1,410	Kiribati
1,080	Seychelles
1,000	Nauru
920	Tuvalu
800	Malta
584	Tonga
517	Saint Kitts and Nevis
354	The Bahamas
352	Grenada
346	Antigua and Barbuda

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6 Comments

Level 76

Sep 16, 2014

The link you gave doesn't work.

Level 28

Sep 16, 2014

Are you sure? It works fine for me.

Try this https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2147.html

Level 18

Dec 27, 2014

No Croatia, Japan, Philippines?

Level 28

Jan 2, 2015

Croatia - 104.20, Japan - 81.63, Philippines - 121.71. If you're confused, try reading the source

Level 66

Jul 24, 2018

Should impose an area threshold. We know that this ratio is high espcially for small island countries. (The universal law of fractal is similar for coastline lengths.)

Level 81

Apr 20, 2019

so... all the tiniest of tiny island nations + Monaco.