Countries by coastline length

Did you know Canada has the world's longest coastline — more than 10 times longer than the United States? Measuring coastlines is also far trickier than it sounds, thanks to the fractal nature of natural geography.

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Coastline length by country
Rank	Country	Coastline length (km)
1	Canada	202080	note: the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - consisting of 36,563 islands, several of them some of the world's largest - contributes to Canada easily having the longest coastline in the world
2	Indonesia	54716
3	Greenland	44087
4	Russian Federation	37653
5	Philippines	36289
6	Japan	29751
7	Australia	25760
8	Norway	25148	(includes mainland 2,650 km, as well as long fjords, numerous small islands, and minor indentations 22,498 km; length of island coastlines 58,133 km)
9	United States of America	19924
10	Antarctica	17968
11	New Zealand	15134
12	China	14500
13	Greece	13676
14	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	12429
15	Mexico	9330
16	Italy	7600
17	Brazil	7491
18	Denmark	7314
19	Türkiye	7200
20	India	7000
21	Chile	6435
22	Micronesia, Federated States of	6112
23	Croatia	5835	(mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)
24	Solomon Islands	5313
25	Papua New Guinea	5152
26	Argentina	4989
27	Iceland	4970
28	Spain	4964
29	France	4853	metropolitan France: 3,427 km
30	Madagascar	4828
31	Malaysia	4675	(Peninsular Malaysia 2,068 km, East Malaysia 2,607 km)
32	Estonia	3794
33	Cuba	3735
34	Bahamas	3542
35	Viet Nam	3444	(excludes islands)
36	Thailand	3219
37	Sweden	3218
38	Colombia	3208	(Caribbean Sea 1,760 km, North Pacific Ocean 1,448 km)
39	Somalia	3025
40	Morocco	2945
41	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	2800
42	South Africa	2798
43	Ukraine	2782
44	Saudi Arabia	2640
45	Vanuatu	2528
46	French Polynesia	2525
47	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	2495
48	Panama	2490
49	Mozambique	2470
50	Egypt	2450
51	Iran, Islamic Republic of	2440	note: Iran also borders the Caspian Sea (740 km)
52	Peru	2414
53	Korea, Republic of	2413
54	Germany	2389
55	New Caledonia	2254
56	Ecuador	2237
57	Eritrea	2234	(mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)
58	Oman	2092
59	Myanmar	1930
60	Portugal	1793
61	Haiti	1771
62	Libya	1770
63	Angola	1600
64	Namibia	1572
65	Taiwan	1566.3
66	Palau	1519
67	Northern Mariana Islands	1482
68	Ireland	1448
69	Tanzania, United Republic of	1424
70	Sri Lanka	1340
71	United Arab Emirates	1318
72	Costa Rica	1290
73	Dominican Republic	1288
74	Finland	1250
75	Tunisia	1148
76	Kiribati	1143
77	Fiji	1129
78	Faroe Islands	1117
79	Pakistan	1046
80	Jamaica	1022
81	Algeria	998
82	Cabo Verde	965
83	Nicaragua	910
84	Gabon	885
85	Nigeria	853
86	Sudan	853
87	Honduras	823	(Caribbean Sea 669 km, Gulf of Fonseca 163 km)
88	Mauritania	754
89	Hong Kong	733
90	Timor-Leste	706
91	British Indian Ocean Territory	698
92	Uruguay	660
93	Cyprus	648
94	Maldives	644
95	Bangladesh	580
96	Liberia	579
97	Qatar	563
98	Ghana	539
99	Kenya	536
100	Senegal	531
101	Côte d'Ivoire	515
102	Puerto Rico	501
103	Kuwait	499
104	Latvia	498
105	Seychelles	491
106	Guyana	459
107	Netherlands, Kingdom of the	451
108	Cambodia	443
109	Poland	440
110	Tonga	419
111	Samoa	403
112	Cameroon	402
113	Sierra Leone	402
114	Guatemala	400
115	Turks and Caicos Islands	389
116	Belize	386
117	Suriname	386
118	Marshall Islands	370.4
119	Albania	362
120	Trinidad and Tobago	362
121	Bulgaria	354
122	Guinea-Bissau	350
123	Comoros	340
124	Guinea	320
125	Djibouti	314
126	Georgia	310
127	El Salvador	307
128	Equatorial Guinea	296
129	Montenegro	293.5
130	Israel	273
131	Lebanon	225
132	Romania	225
133	Sao Tome and Principe	209
134	Malta	196.8	(excludes 56 km for the island of Gozo)
135	Singapore	193
136	Syrian Arab Republic	193
137	Mauritius	177
138	Congo	169
139	Bahrain	161
140	Cayman Islands	160
141	Isle of Man	160
142	Saint Lucia	158
143	Antigua and Barbuda	153
144	Dominica	148
145	Christmas Island	138.9
146	Saint Kitts and Nevis	135
147	Wallis and Futuna	129
148	Guam	125.5
149	Benin	121
150	Grenada	121
151	Cook Islands	120
152	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	120
153	American Samoa	116
154	Bermuda	103
155	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	101.9
156	Tokelau	101
157	Barbados	97
158	Lithuania	90
159	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	84
160	Virgin Islands (British)	80
161	Gambia	80
162	Jersey	70
163	Aruba	68.5
164	Belgium	66.5
165	Niue	64
166	Anguilla	61
167	Iraq	58
168	Togo	56
169	Guernsey	50
170	Slovenia	46.6
171	Montserrat	40
172	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	37
173	Norfolk Island	32
174	Nauru	30
175	Bouvet Island	29.6
176	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	26
177	Jordan	26
178	Tuvalu	24
179	Bosnia and Herzegovina	20
180	Gibraltar	12
181	Monaco	4.1
182	Afghanistan	0	(landlocked)
183	Andorra	0	(landlocked)
184	Armenia	0	(landlocked)
185	Austria	0	(landlocked)
186	Azerbaijan	0	(landlocked); note - Azerbaijan borders the Caspian Sea (713 km)
187	Belarus	0	(landlocked)
188	Bhutan	0	(landlocked)
189	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	0	(landlocked)
190	Botswana	0	(landlocked)
191	Burkina Faso	0	(landlocked)
192	Burundi	0	(landlocked)
193	Central African Republic	0	(landlocked)
194	Chad	0	(landlocked)
195	Czechia	0	(landlocked)
196	Eswatini	0	(landlocked)
197	Ethiopia	0	(landlocked)
198	Hungary	0	(landlocked)
199	Kazakhstan	0	(landlocked); note - Kazakhstan borders the Aral Sea, now split into two bodies of water (1,070 km), and the Caspian Sea (1,894 km)
200	Kyrgyzstan	0	(landlocked)
201	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0	(landlocked)
202	Lesotho	0	(landlocked)
203	Liechtenstein	0	(doubly landlocked)
204	Luxembourg	0	(landlocked)
205	Malawi	0	(landlocked)
206	Mali	0	(landlocked)
207	Moldova, Republic of	0	(landlocked)
208	Mongolia	0	(landlocked)
209	Nepal	0	(landlocked)
210	Niger	0	(landlocked)
211	North Macedonia	0	(landlocked)
212	Paraguay	0	(landlocked)
213	Rwanda	0	(landlocked)
214	San Marino	0	(landlocked)
215	Serbia	0	(landlocked)
216	Slovakia	0	(landlocked)
217	South Sudan	0	(landlocked)
218	Switzerland	0	(landlocked)
219	Tajikistan	0	(landlocked)
220	Turkmenistan	0	(landlocked); note - Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea (1,768 km)
221	Uganda	0	(landlocked)
222	Uzbekistan	0	(doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline

Countries by coastline length

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