Countries by Coastline
Methodology
This is based on original research by me, the JetPunk quizmaster. I wrote a script to calculate the coastline of each country based on this original data source from Natural Earth.
Notes
- This does not include lakeshore
- It does, however, include oceanic seas and inlets such as the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Puget Sound, etc..
- It does not include the Caspian Sea
- The coastline for Israel does not include Gaza
- The coastline for each country includes overseas regions, dependencies, and autonomous areas. For example, the number for Denmark includes Greenland.
- The length of coastline depends on the resolution of the data source. The higher the resolution, the longer the coastline.
- The source data is not 100% perfectly accurate but it is, in my opinion, the best data source available
All Countries by Coastline
Kilometers | Country |
---|---|
137,000 | Canada |
73,100 | Russia |
69,500 | United States |
52,500 | Indonesia |
48,800 | Denmark |
34,100 | Australia |
31,300 | Chile |
27,400 | Norway |
18,700 | Brazil |
17,300 | Philippines |
16,800 | China |
16,700 | United Kingdom |
15,600 | Mexico |
15,500 | Japan |
12,200 | France |
11,200 | Papua New Guinea |
11,000 | India |
10,300 | New Zealand |
9,480 | Greece |
6,520 | Sweden |
6,330 | Myanmar |
6,020 | Italy |
5,910 | Argentina |
5,850 | Turkey |
5,780 | Vietnam |
5,750 | Cuba |
5,480 | Venezuela |
5,440 | Madagascar |
5,270 | Malaysia |
5,200 | Iceland |
5,010 | Spain |
4,860 | South Korea |
4,500 | Solomon Islands |
4,190 | Finland |
4,020 | Saudi Arabia |
3,870 | Thailand |
3,840 | Mozambique |
3,790 | Egypt |
3,780 | Bahamas |
3,560 | Colombia |
3,450 | Ireland |
3,380 | Panama |
3,150 | Bangladesh |
3,070 | South Africa |
2,900 | Ukraine |
2,730 | Croatia |
2,710 | Morocco |
2,660 | Germany |
2,660 | Iran |
2,650 | Peru |
2,610 | Fiji |
2,590 | Ecuador |
2,540 | Yemen |
2,440 | Somalia |
2,290 | Oman |
2,270 | Vanuatu |
2,190 | Nigeria |
2,140 | North Korea |
2,120 | Portugal |
1,990 | Sri Lanka |
1,920 | Guinea-Bissau |
1,910 | Tanzania |
1,900 | Gabon |
1,890 | Angola |
1,780 | Libya |
1,510 | Honduras |
1,510 | Namibia |
1,490 | Estonia |
1,470 | Haiti |
1,450 | Costa Rica |
1,450 | Pakistan |
1,420 | Eritrea |
1,390 | Tunisia |
1,370 | Nicaragua |
1,360 | Netherlands |
1,290 | Dominican Republic |
1,280 | Ivory Coast |
1,270 | Taiwan |
1,260 | Senegal |
1,250 | United Arab Emirates |
1,200 | Algeria |
1,170 | Kiribati |
1,010 | Mauritania |
975 | Sierra Leone |
879 | Guinea |
868 | Uruguay |
825 | Guyana |
824 | Kenya |
807 | Cape Verde |
795 | Cambodia |
789 | Cameroon |
785 | Belize |
735 | Sudan |
702 | East Timor |
677 | Poland |
641 | Jamaica |
608 | Suriname |
606 | Liberia |
590 | Ghana |
561 | Cyprus |
543 | Qatar |
523 | Latvia |
519 | Maldives |
513 | Trinidad and Tobago |
497 | Gambia |
495 | Equatorial Guinea |
483 | Kuwait |
469 | Romania |
457 | El Salvador |
456 | Albania |
406 | Marshall Islands |
405 | Guatemala |
391 | Seychelles |
346 | Tonga |
345 | Federated States of Micronesia |
343 | Comoros |
342 | Samoa |
338 | Bulgaria |
319 | Djibouti |
308 | Georgia |
275 | Palau |
250 | Mauritius |
227 | Lebanon |
216 | Lithuania |
211 | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
200 | Israel |
185 | Brunei |
185 | Sao Tome and Principe |
178 | Antigua and Barbuda |
176 | Republic of the Congo |
176 | Syria |
167 | Montenegro |
136 | Bahrain |
135 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
128 | Dominica |
121 | Benin |
114 | Grenada |
108 | Malta |
107 | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
107 | Saint Lucia |
97 | Singapore |
95 | Belgium |
91 | Iraq |
90 | Barbados |
78 | Tuvalu |
50 | Togo |
27 | Slovenia |
27 | Jordan |
20 | Nauru |
18 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
7 | Monaco |
0 | Afghanistan |
0 | Andorra |
0 | Armenia |
0 | Austria |
0 | Azerbaijan |
0 | Belarus |
0 | Bhutan |
0 | Bolivia |
0 | Botswana |
0 | Burkina Faso |
0 | Burundi |
0 | Central African Republic |
0 | Chad |
0 | Czech Republic |
0 | Eswatini |
0 | Ethiopia |
0 | Hungary |
0 | Kazakhstan |
0 | Kosovo |
0 | Kyrgyzstan |
0 | Laos |
0 | Lesotho |
0 | Liechtenstein |
0 | Luxembourg |
0 | Malawi |
0 | Mali |
0 | Moldova |
0 | Mongolia |
0 | Nepal |
0 | Niger |
0 | North Macedonia |
0 | Paraguay |
0 | Rwanda |
0 | San Marino |
0 | Serbia |
0 | Slovakia |
0 | South Sudan |
0 | Switzerland |
0 | Tajikistan |
0 | Turkmenistan |
0 | Uganda |
0 | Uzbekistan |
0 | Vatican City |
0 | Zambia |
0 | Zimbabwe |
Croatian sources say 526 km in a straight line, 1777 along the mainland coast and 5835 km with islands (74% of Adriatic coast)
Slovenia is usually given between 42 and 48, most often as 46.6 km. Especially when it's so small, it's easy to look at a detailed map or satelite photo and wonder why this bay or that wouldn't be included – in this blog you can see an image illustrating how you can arrive at different values. Further complicated (at this scale) by the port piers/docks and salt ponds.
I’m trying to figure out if those lagoons are considered inland water or not.
Thanks.