Can you name the pairs of countries that border each other 'in majority'*?

created by puckett86

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
* For both countries, over 50% of the country's land borders are the other country.
Source: CIA World Factbook
Also try: World's Longest Borders

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8893 km
100%
73.9%

5308 km
83.7%
53.8%

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66.8%
62.9%

1619 km
72.5%
63.7%

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100%
63.3%

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74.9%
60.7%

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100%
100%

360 km
100%
100%

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59.5%
51.6%

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Majority Borders Quiz

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Created Feb 2, 2013 in Geography
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	Yankees_12:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 17:36 GMT		3 points
	@Larryholmes79 Northern Ireland

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	eab21:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 18:11 GMT		20 points
	@futureprez2016: Yeah, but the majority of Italy's borders are not with either of those two. Same with South Africa and Lesotho.

	raksi:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 18:12 GMT		20 points
	@KRC - Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and not considered part of the actual UK. @futureprez2016 - Both countries need to share over 50% of their border with the other. So while 100% of the Vatican's border is shared with Italy, the same is not true the other way around.

	ZombieWombat:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 18:14 GMT		4 points
	@futureprez yes but the game description states that both countries must share at least 50% of their border with the other country, so whilst 100% of Vatican City's border is shared with Italy, only a small proportion of Italy's border is shared with Vatican City.

	Davidos:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 18:17 GMT		11 points
	Thought at first maybe it would be Papua new Guinea and Indonesia, but I guess it borders Malaysia a bit more. Really I guess I just wanted Papua New Guinea because it's a fun country to say and doesn't get enough recgonition.

	QuizKingJon:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 19:24 GMT		5 points
	Got them all except Ireland and the UK... Which happens to be my own country.

	ArtFever:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 20:20 GMT		16 points
	I want to see the inverse of this: a quiz on all country pairs that barely border each other (e.g. China-Afghanistan).

	dlutz77539:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 20:20 GMT		6 points
	I got the UK because I tried Ukraine...

	Zak6009:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 21:15 GMT		1 point
	Would it be sporclitis if out of the two 100/100's, I thought of Hispaniola before UK/Ireland?

	puckett86:	Mar 3rd, 2013 at 22:08 GMT		4 points
	@ArtFever It's not exactly the same concept as this quiz, but there is a "World's Shortest Borders" quiz: https://www.sporcle.com/games/Magnadoodle/shortest_borders

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	GTBuzz:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 00:17 GMT		3 points
	Who would've thunk that the border between the UK and Ireland is the same length as the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic? Only Sporcle would teach you that.

	BigAl1519:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 00:24 GMT		-2 points
	What about North Korea & South Korea?

	catcherj:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 00:34 GMT		4 points
	@BigAl: I made the same guess, but it turns out that North Korea's border with China/Russia in the north is longer than its border with South Korea to the south.

	confused:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 06:54 GMT		2 points
	I only got Costa Rica because I was sure it had over 50% of it's land border with Nicaragua. Even now, when I look at a map, it looks like it is -- deceptive! Great take on the borders-quiz genre, Puckett86.

	ghostship:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 14:20 GMT		1 point
	I missed out on two pairs, one of which was Ireland/UK. I'm British. FML.

	muscularmouse:	Mar 4th, 2013 at 14:34 GMT		2 points
	Wow, that sucks. I types Papua New Guinea, Philippines, and singapore, but I never thought to type indonesia. >_

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	bigturnip:	Mar 5th, 2013 at 03:00 GMT		-2 points
	Surprised Senegal and Gambia didn't make the cut, is this just an arbitrary list of pairs of countries?

	Psyk:	Mar 6th, 2013 at 07:32 GMT		2 points
	@lex_173: Please explain to me why not. So first I'll need a technical definition of a country, then explain why the UK does not fit that definition.

	kennyb:	Mar 6th, 2013 at 21:00 GMT		2 points
	@bigturnip: Senegal's border with Mauritania alone is longer than its border with Gambia, so < 50%, and maybe more like < 30%.

	rickgr:	Mar 7th, 2013 at 01:07 GMT		1 point
	Answer to previous question: S. Korea only borders N Korea, but N. Korea has a longer border with China and Russia than with S. Korea--therefore less than 50% of its borders are with S. Korea. As for me, I missed the 4 Central American ones. Looks like I had company, but I still can't believe I did not try those.