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Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Canada

Canada's coastline is about 202,000 km, more than the next several countries put together, because of the enormous fractal fringe of the Arctic archipelago. Indonesia, second, is about 55,000 km.

Which two countries share the longest continuous land border?

Canada and the US

The Canada-US border runs about 8,890 km including Alaska. Kazakhstan and Russia are second at roughly 7,600 km, and Argentina and Chile third at about 5,300 km.

Which country has the most islands?

Sweden, with over 260,000

Sweden counts about 267,000 islands, most of them tiny uninhabited rocks in its lakes and archipelagos. Indonesia's 17,000-odd islands are far larger and far more populated.

Greater Tokyo's population is closest to that of which country?

Canada

Greater Tokyo holds roughly 37 million people and Canada about 40 million, so one metropolitan area is within a tenth of the world's second-largest country by area. Australia is about 27 million.

Mount Thor in Canada holds which record?

The greatest vertical drop

Its west face drops about 1,250 m at an average overhang of 15 degrees, a cliff that leans out over its own base the whole way down.

Canada's name is thought to come from a word meaning what?

Village

From kanata, a St Lawrence Iroquoian word for a village. Jacques Cartier used it for the surrounding region in the 1530s and it stuck to the whole country.

Roughly what share of the northern hemisphere's land is permafrost?

About a quarter

Around 23 to 25 percent of exposed land in the northern hemisphere sits on permanently frozen ground, most of it in Siberia, Alaska and northern Canada.

Which country's borders with its neighbours are still not fully agreed after decades of talks?

India and China

The Line of Actual Control is a de facto boundary rather than a settled border, and stretches of it remain disputed. Skirmishes have occurred as recently as 2020-21.