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World Bordering Countries With Greatest Area Difference

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Name the 50 pairs of countries which share a land border which have the largest difference (in terms of ratio) in area. Dependent territories included as part of their countries and country areas include all dependent territories. Borders included over man-made land, but not bridges/tunnels. Enter countries one after the other in either order, i.e. ‘FranceGermany’ or ‘USCanada’ – use the following abbreviations for these countries: US, UK, DRC, CAR, UAE, and just ‘Congo’ for Republic of the Congo. Number shown is ratio of larger country’s area to smaller country’s.

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--X--

1 year ago

Missing Denmark/Canada?

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darin

1 year ago

Reply to --X--

Denmark includes Greenland so it doesn’t qualify.

meee154

1 year ago

Why is this so hard

ttffn

2 years ago

im pretty sure that SA doesnt border Bahrain, just a bridge. same with Malaysia-Singapore

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to ttffn

there are man-made causeways creating those borders, so those pairs of countries are included in all my country border quizzes.