Countries by coastline length
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About this puzzle
Coastline length is a famously slippery measurement - the more finely you trace an inlet, the longer the answer gets - so the ranking rewards crinkliness rather than raw size. Fjords and archipelagos beat sheer landmass here, which is how a comparatively small country and a nation of thousands of islands outrank continental giants. The biggest country on the map is not automatically the one with the most shoreline.
Ranked longest coastline to shortest coastline · coastline length in miles
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- Canada
- Indonesia
- Norway
- Russia
- United States
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