Canada has the world’s longest coastline at 56,453 miles, accounting for 15% of the world’s coastline. Landlocked countries like Austria and Kazakhstan have borders instead of coasts. The US has coastlines on two oceans and borders with Canada and Mexico. There are 44 landlocked countries, including Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan.
Canada has the longest coastline of any nation on the planet. With a coastline of 56,453 miles (just over 90,852km), the country accounts for about 15% of the world’s coastline. While landlocked countries like Austria or Kazakhstan include large amounts of land, they possess borders rather than coasts. Nations often assumed to have a large amount of coastline, such as Russia and Brazil, include significant borders with other nations and don’t have coastlines long enough to compete with Canada. Besides Canada, the top 5 nations with the longest coastlines in the world are Indonesia, Greenland, Russia and the Philippines.
Facts about coasts and borders:
Many nations around the world have both coasts and borders. For example, the United States has coastlines along two oceans, the Atlantic and the Pacific, as well as borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.
Landlocked nations are countries that only have borders and have no coast at all. As of 2011, there were a total of 44 countries and other areas that were identified as landlocked.
As of 2011, there are two nations in the world classified as landlocked. Lichenstein and Uzbekistan not only lack shorelines of their own, but are also surrounded by other landlocked nations.
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