Can you name the countries with the highest coast/area ratios? by bton624

Can you name the countries with the highest coast/area ratios?

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Source: Wikipedia - Information on that page obtained from the CIA World Factbook.
ISLAND NATIONS are NOT included in this quiz. Oceania, Caribbean, and UK are off limits. Identify the countries that have high coastline to land area ratios.
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'Rank'	Country	Ratio (m/km^2)
1		2,051.3
2		172.254
3		104.557
4		103.432
5		87.802
6		81.798
7		49.226
8		32.767
9		28.002
10		25.849
11		25.464
12		24.575

'Rank'	Country	Ratio (m/km^2)
13		22.222
14		21.994
15		20.721
16		19.500
17		18.414
18		16.925
19		15.766
20		14.817
21		14.408
22		14.229
23		13.664
24		13.428

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Long Coastline, Small Land Area Quiz

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	bton624:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 00:58 GMT	4 points
	ISLAND NATIONS are NOT included in this quiz. Oceania, Caribbean, and UK are off limits. Identify the countries that have high coastline to land area ratios. To clarify: if this game were applied to US states, Florida would be a good option, because of its very long coastline (relative to its land area). Units for coastline = meters. Units for land area = km^2.....so ratios may seem a bit high

	Pengwn:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 02:04 GMT	24 points
	Hard to believe Chile is not on this list

	cocky:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 02:09 GMT	1 point
	I was about to make that same comment.

	mike5816:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 03:28 GMT	3 points
	Using the CIA World Factbook: United States: 2.028 Chile: 8.511

	Grawk:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 12:45 GMT	4 points
	If you use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline and sort by coast/area ratio you can see Chile just missing out. Great quiz! Really enjoyed it. Thanks for not including islands, made it a lot more interesting.

	thedpr:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 13:20 GMT	4 points
	Chile is not on the list because the measurement used is not scale-invariant - it is biased towards small countries (that's why Monaco's number is off the charts). A better measure would be coastline^2 / area. Also, you say "not UK" but you don't say "not Ireland"...

	Kaleb:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 15:23 GMT	1 point
	great quiz!

	Gravey:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 15:41 GMT	5 points
	Chile isn't on here because the source is flawed, and the scale used apparently doesn't measure coastline very well. It has an incredibly long coastline, and it is obviously, vastly underestimated in the source.

	adal:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 16:26 GMT	-4 points
	I think you need to clarify your definition of island nation. You're excluding the UK even though it has a land border (Ireland), and is therefore not strictly an island nation. Do you also exclude Papua New Guinea for example?

	DragonNo4:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 16:39 GMT	5 points
	Astonishing that Canada is not only on the list, but the most gotten, considering how thick an area it covers.

	Delphion:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 17:11 GMT	-1 points
	Malaysia is an island nation just as much as the UK. Also, Denmark and Greece have many islands which counts a lot.

	RAWRified:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	0 points
	second the malaysia comment

	brianmcp:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 18:16 GMT	4 points
	the majority of malaysia is connected to asia through the malay peninsula though

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	abanazerb:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 18:53 GMT	4 points
	This is a great idea for a quiz, but you need to change the way you calculate it. As area is a two-dimensional concept and length of coastline is one-dimensional, clearly there needs to be a squaring involved before you do the division part of the calculation. By my reckoning, Chile would be number 2 on this corrected scale, and other large countries with long coastlines would also come into the list. Make this change and you have a great quiz.

	homoerectus69:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 19:21 GMT	5 points
	malaysia is not as much of an island nation as the UK. malaysia has land on a continent, which the UK does not. canada has such a large coastline because of all of the islands in the northwest territories and nunavut

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Feb 14th, 2010 at 21:17 GMT

1 point

No Vietnam?

	Golden:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 02:08 GMT	0 points
	was not sure why you left out island nations... i think you should do onw with them still in.

	dolby:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:08 GMT	2 points
	i wud have thought oman, yemen, brunei, east timor, haiti etc. wud have been der as well...

	yoshiman:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 20:03 GMT	1 point
	lets be honest here-apples are far better than oranges any day of the week

	TiZo:	Feb 19th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz, Got them all, but forgot GREECE... Stupid, stupid, stupid... And really strange that Chile is not on the list.

	Malcolm:	Jun 16th, 2010 at 09:34 GMT	2 points
	According to the shortest coastlines quiz, Monaco has a coastline of 4km. A ratio of 2,051.3 gives Monaco an area of just under 2,000m^2, or less than half a soccer pitch. I know it's small, but not that small!