The concept of "tall" means looking only from a north-south perspective. I've done a Longest Countries quiz that looks at the greatest distance from one end of each country's mainland to the other, regardless of compass direction. There is also means less debate about how to calculate the distances.
Chile just looks so thin but Brazil is very large it's southern most point is with Uruguay and it' northern is Venezuela that is more than half of the continent.
Malbaby, that's an interesting thought but I don't think it's quite true. The majority of the Chile-Argentina border runs along the Andes, so although there are some substantial inlets of the ocean, Chile has some contiguous mass going all the way south to the Strait of Magellan. Note that this is different than the Beagle Channel, which is south of the island of Tierra del Fuego (i.e., not included in this distance)
Going strictly by northernmost and southernmost mainland points:
Brazil 4°27'N to 33°45'S equals 38°12' lines of latitude.
Chile 17°30'S to 53°54'S equals 36°24' lines of latitude.
Much of the southern tip of Chile you see on a world map is islands, extending to about 55°59'S, which would give Chile the very slight win in a lines of latitude battle between the two, at 19' of latitude (19 nautical miles).
If we're going non-contiguous, Russia, the USA, Canada, and potentially even China beat them both.
So naive... hehe most conventional projections make countries close to the poles look bigger (and the other way around with those close to the equator) LOL
Oh, for god's sake. The whole time, I was typing countries with high elevations. I was getting furious that Nepal was not listed. I realized with ten seconds left that I was doing it wrong. Still, I managed to get 11/20, so that's a funny coincidence!
original quiz. If you want to be exact, you should add Denmark (because of Greenland). If you define 'country' as being dependent of one government, that is.
And by appearing in both the "widest" and "tallest" quizzes while being a relatively small country, Morocco wins the title of "Most Diagonal Country in the World"
Missed Myanmar. The most common and conventional projections make landmasses close to the equator small than those closer to the poles. That's why some people here thought Sweden (for example) looked bigger... LOL Naive.
I'd like to contest Vietnam. It is very, very close to Thailand, when I used a distance calculator, I got as close as 1,648 km which is remarkably close. I would check Vietnam again just in case :)
Great website, and there's a similar mobile app as well, maybe by the same people. Chile would stretch from the northern tip of Norway all the way down to the northern coast of Libya... Blimey.
Funny I distinctly remember typing China I guess I thought about it but since I was in a hurry and thinking of lots of other countries I forgot to type it in and then I couldn't figure out what I was missing. Also missed DRC, Mozambique, and Morocco
Might want to change the wording in the title of the quiz. Tallest doesn't seem to quite correspond correctly to what you're asking in the question. Perhaps simply change it to "Longest countries north to south" would make a whole lot more sense.
Brazil 4°27'N to 33°45'S equals 38°12' lines of latitude.
Chile 17°30'S to 53°54'S equals 36°24' lines of latitude.
Much of the southern tip of Chile you see on a world map is islands, extending to about 55°59'S, which would give Chile the very slight win in a lines of latitude battle between the two, at 19' of latitude (19 nautical miles).
If we're going non-contiguous, Russia, the USA, Canada, and potentially even China beat them both.
You can compare their lengths. Kazakhstan is just barley shorter than Thailand.
I am an idiot.
Me: impossible