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Borders and Neighbours

Enclaves, tripoints, stolen coastlines and a desert nobody wants. Can you tell where one country stops and the next one begins?

🌍 Geography hard 20 questions ~8 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Besides Vatican City, which other country is completely surrounded by Italy?
  • Spain shares a land border with Morocco.
  • The border between Nepal and China runs right across the summit of which mountain?
  • Which country, like China, shares land borders with 14 other countries?
  • Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, is squeezed between Poland and which country?
  • France shares a land border with Brazil.
  • Bolivia lost its Pacific coastline in the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) to which country?
  • Which country became landlocked when Eritrea gained its independence in 1993?
  • Select ALL of these countries that share a land border with only one other country.
  • The town of Baarle is a patchwork of enclaves belonging to Belgium and which other country?
  • How long is the border between Canada and the United States, including Alaska's, in kilometres?
  • Have Germany, Austria and Switzerland ever agreed on where their borders run across the main part of Lake Constance?
  • Nakhchivan, an exclave cut off from the rest of its country by Armenia, belongs to which country?
  • Order these landlocked countries by area, largest first.
  • The Golden Triangle, where the Ruak River meets the Mekong, joins Thailand, Laos and which country?
  • In 2022, Canada agreed to split tiny Hans Island, ending the good-natured 'Whisky War', with which country?
  • Select ALL of these countries that are doubly landlocked, meaning every neighbour is landlocked too.
  • The Caprivi Strip, a long thin panhandle, gives which country a route to the Zambezi River?
  • Point Roberts, a US town that can only be reached by land through Canada, belongs to which state?
  • Bir Tawil, a patch of desert that no country claims, lies between Egypt and which country?