Countries by Coastline 2023

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Interactive Map Introduction Coastline Length by Country Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland France Gabon Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay People's Republic of China Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Macedonia Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand The Bahamas Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America United States Virgin Islands Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

Introduction

The coastline is the naturally occurring barrier between the land and a sitting body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A coastline can be important to a country because it allows for easy travel and commerce across the ocean and can also provide a natural defense against invasion.. With the exception of erosion, countries are not able to add additional coastline without encroaching on the territory of other countries.

Sea access for a nation, which is somewhat guaranteed with a coastline, can assist the development of a state in many ways and many states do their utmost for this sea access.

Measuring a country’s coastline simply requires calculating the total distance of where the water meets the land, usually in either kilometers or miles. For a country to have a larger coastline, it usually needs to be directly on the ocean or an island. Some countries have no coastline as they are completely landlocked, such as Afghanistan or Paraguay.

Learn for yourself about countries by coastline by going through the map and charts.

#	Country	Coastline Length	Land Area
1	Canada	265,523 km	8,965,590 km²
2	United States of America	133,312 km	9,147,420 km²
3	Russia	110,310 km	16,376,870 km²
4	Indonesia	95,181 km	1,877,519 km²
5	Chile	78,563 km	743,532 km²
6	Australia	66,530 km	7,692,020 km²
7	Norway	53,199 km	364,285 km²
8	Philippines	33,900 km	298,170 km²
9	Brazil	33,379 km	8,358,140 km²
10	Finland	31,119 km	303,940 km²
11	People's Republic of China	30,017 km	9,388,210 km²
12	Japan	29,020 km	364,500 km²
13	Sweden	26,384 km	407,283.53 km²
14	Mexico	23,761 km	1,943,950 km²
15	Papua New Guinea	20,197 km	452,860 km²
16	United Kingdom	19,717 km	241,930 km²
17	New Zealand	17,209 km	263,310 km²
18	India	17,181 km	2,973,190 km²
19	Greece	15,147 km	128,900 km²
20	Myanmar	14,708 km	652,670 km²
21	Cuba	14,519 km	103,800 km²
22	South Korea	12,478 km	97,600 km²
23	Vietnam	11,409 km	313,429 km²
24	The Bahamas	11,238 km	10,010 km²
25	Madagascar	9,935 km	581,800 km²
26	Solomon Islands	9,880 km	27,990 km²
27	Malaysia	9,323 km	328,550 km²
28	Italy	9,226 km	295,717 km²
29	Iceland	8,506 km	100,830 km²
30	Argentina	8,397 km	2,736,690 km²
31	Turkey	8,140 km	769,630 km²
32	Saudi Arabia	7,572 km	2,149,690 km²
33	France	7,330 km	547,557 km²
34	Spain	7,268 km	499,556.65 km²
35	Thailand	7,066 km	510,890 km²
36	Mozambique	6,942 km	786,380 km²
37	Venezuela	6,762 km	882,050 km²
38	Ireland	6,437 km	68,890 km²
39	Egypt	5,898 km	995,450 km²
40	Iran	5,891 km	1,622,500 km²
41	Colombia	5,875 km	1,109,500 km²
42	Croatia	5,664 km	55,960 km²
43	Panama	5,637 km	74,180 km²
44	Denmark	5,316 km	40,000 km²
45	Ukraine	4,953 km	579,400 km²
46	Fiji	4,638 km	18,270 km²
47	Ecuador	4,597 km	248,360 km²
48	Kazakhstan	4,528 km	2,699,700 km²
49	North Korea	4,009 km	120,410 km²
50	Somalia	3,898 km	627,340 km²
51	South Africa	3,751 km	1,213,090 km²
52	Germany	3,624 km	349,390 km²
53	New Caledonia	3,624 km	18,280 km²
54	Tanzania	3,461 km	885,800 km²
55	Eritrea	3,446 km	121,040.83 km²
56	Peru	3,362 km	1,280,000 km²
57	Bangladesh	3,306 km	130,170 km²
58	Guinea-Bissau	3,176 km	28,120 km²
59	Yemen	3,149 km	527,970 km²
60	Vanuatu	3,132 km	12,190 km²
61	Nigeria	3,122 km	910,770 km²
62	Estonia	2,956 km	42,750 km²
63	United Arab Emirates	2,871 km	71,020 km²
64	Portugal	2,830 km	91,605.6 km²
65	Sri Lanka	2,825 km	61,860 km²
66	Oman	2,810 km	309,500 km²
67	Pakistan	2,599 km	770,880 km²
68	Angola	2,252 km	1,246,700 km²
69	Sudan	2,245 km	1,868,000 km²
70	Marshall Islands	2,106 km	180 km²
71	Costa Rica	2,069 km	51,060 km²
72	Libya	2,025 km	1,759,540 km²
73	Gabon	2,019 km	257,670 km²
74	Morocco	2,009 km	446,300 km²
75	Taiwan	2,007 km	35,410 km²
76	Maldives	2,002 km	300 km²
77	Belize	1,996 km	22,810 km²
78	Haiti	1,977 km	27,560 km²
79	Tunisia	1,927 km	155,360 km²
80	Nicaragua	1,915 km	120,340 km²
81	Netherlands	1,914 km	33,670 km²
82	Honduras	1,878 km	111,890 km²
83	Cameroon	1,799 km	472,710 km²
84	Namibia	1,754 km	823,290 km²
85	Uzbekistan	1,707 km	440,650 km²
86	Sierra Leone	1,677 km	72,180 km²
87	Guinea	1,615 km	245,720 km²
88	Dominican Republic	1,612 km	48,310 km²
89	Kenya	1,586 km	569,140 km²
90	Algeria	1,557 km	2,381,741 km²
91	Senegal	1,327 km	192,530 km²
92	Federated States of Micronesia	1,295 km	700 km²
93	Turkmenistan	1,289 km	469,930 km²
94	Mauritania	1,268 km	1,030,700 km²
95	Guyana	1,154 km	196,850 km²
96	Cambodia	1,127 km	176,520 km²
97	Uruguay	1,096 km	175,020 km²
98	Puerto Rico	1,094 km	8,870 km²
99	Poland	1,032 km	306,130 km²
100	Hong Kong	955 km	1,050 km²
101	Qatar	909 km	11,490 km²
102	Jamaica	895 km	10,830 km²
103	Azerbaijan	871 km	82,646 km²
104	Liberia	842 km	96,320 km²
105	Ivory Coast	797 km	318,000 km²
106	Ghana	758 km	227,533 km²
107	El Salvador	756 km	20,720 km²
108	Kuwait	756 km	17,820 km²
109	Seychelles	747 km	460 km²
110	Trinidad and Tobago	704 km	5,130 km²
111	Romania	696 km	230,080 km²
112	Cyprus	671 km	9,240 km²
113	Albania	649 km	27,400 km²
114	Suriname	620 km	156,000 km²
115	Equatorial Guinea	603 km	28,050 km²
116	Latvia	566 km	62,230 km²
117	Mauritius	496 km	2,030 km²
118	Comoros	469 km	1,861 km²
119	Bulgaria	457 km	108,560 km²
120	Guatemala	445 km	107,160 km²
121	Djibouti	443 km	23,180 km²
122	United States Virgin Islands	390 km	350 km²
123	Georgia	376 km	69,490 km²
124	Lebanon	294 km	10,230 km²
125	Antigua and Barbuda	289 km	440 km²
126	Brunei	269 km	5,270 km²
127	São Tomé and Príncipe	269 km	960 km²
128	Singapore	268 km	718 km²
129	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	264 km	390 km²
130	Lithuania	258 km	62,620 km²
131	Bahrain	255 km	785 km²
132	Grenada	252 km	340 km²
133	Syria	212 km	183,630 km²
134	Israel	205 km	21,640 km²
135	Republic of the Congo	205 km	341,500 km²
136	Malta	198 km	320 km²
137	Bermuda	180 km	54 km²
138	Democratic Republic of the Congo	177 km	2,267,050 km²
139	Saint Lucia	166 km	610 km²
140	Benin	153 km	112,760 km²
141	Dominica	152 km	750 km²
142	Aruba	107 km	180 km²
143	Iraq	105 km	434,128 km²
144	Barbados	97 km	430 km²
145	Belgium	76 km	30,280 km²
146	Togo	53 km	54,390 km²
147	Slovenia	41 km	20,136.4 km²
148	Macau	36 km	32.9 km²
149	Jordan	27 km	88,794 km²
150	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23 km	51,200 km²
151	Afghanistan	0 km	652,230 km²
152	Armenia	0 km	28,470 km²
153	Austria	0 km	82,520 km²
154	Belarus	0 km	202,980 km²
155	Bhutan	0 km	38,140 km²
156	Bolivia	0 km	1,083,300 km²
157	Botswana	0 km	566,730 km²
158	Burkina Faso	0 km	273,600 km²
159	Burundi	0 km	25,680 km²
160	Central African Republic	0 km	622,980 km²
161	Chad	0 km	1,259,200 km²
162	Czech Republic	0 km	77,198.53 km²
163	Ethiopia	0 km	1,128,571.27 km²
164	Hungary	0 km	91,260 km²
165	Kyrgyzstan	0 km	191,800 km²
166	Laos	0 km	230,800 km²
167	Lesotho	0 km	30,360 km²
168	Luxembourg	0 km	2,574.46 km²
169	Malawi	0 km	94,280 km²
170	Mali	0 km	1,220,190 km²
171	Moldova	0 km	32,884.6 km²
172	Mongolia	0 km	1,557,506.8 km²
173	Nepal	0 km	143,350 km²
174	Niger	0 km	1,266,700 km²
175	Paraguay	0 km	397,300 km²
176	Republic of Macedonia	0 km	25,220 km²
177	Rwanda	0 km	24,670 km²
178	Slovakia	0 km	48,080 km²
179	Switzerland	0 km	39,516.03 km²
180	Tajikistan	0 km	138,790 km²
181	Uganda	0 km	200,520 km²
182	Zambia	0 km	743,390 km²
183	Zimbabwe	0 km	386,850 km²

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