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Country curiosities

A curated list of geography trivia spanning countries and continents, sourced the same way as the rest of Apamapa's country data.

Curated from the same general-reference sources credited on the About page. About

• Russia is the largest country by area, spanning eleven time zones.
• Vatican City is the smallest sovereign state in the world, at about 0.44 km².
• Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country.
• Canada has the longest coastline of any country, touching three oceans.
• The flags of Chad and Romania are nearly identical, differing only in the exact shade of blue.
• Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
• Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands, more than any other country.
• Denmark's territory includes Greenland, the world's largest island.
• San Marino, Vatican City, and Lesotho are the only three countries entirely surrounded by a single other country.
• The Nile and the Amazon are the two longest rivers in the world; which is actually longer is still debated, depending on how each river's source is measured.
• Chile stretches roughly 4,300 km north to south but averages only about 180 km wide.
• Africa is the only continent that lies across all four hemispheres.