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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 active volcanoes?

Indonesia

Indonesia has roughly 130 active volcanoes, sitting where three tectonic plates meet along the Ring of Fire. Its 1815 Tambora eruption caused a year without a summer in Europe.

Which country has two capital cities, one for government and one for the courts?

Bolivia

La Paz holds the executive and legislature; Sucre remains the constitutional capital and seat of the Supreme Court. The split dates from a civil war in 1899.

How far is Easter Island from the nearest inhabited land?

About 2,000 km

Pitcairn, with a few dozen residents, is roughly 2,075 km away. Continental Chile, which governs Easter Island, is about 3,500 km east.

Roughly what share of land has land directly on the other side of the world?

About 4 percent

Because land clusters in the northern hemisphere, most land is antipodal to ocean. Only about 4 percent has land opposite: mostly Argentina and Chile against China, and Spain against New Zealand.

The Haskell Free Library sits on which border, with a line painted through the reading room?

Canada and the US

Built deliberately astride the Vermont-Quebec line in 1904. The books are in Canada and the main entrance is in the US, so readers cross an international boundary to reach the shelves.

Which country has no native snakes at all?

New Zealand

New Zealand separated from other landmasses before snakes spread, and has none in the wild. Ireland and Iceland are also snake-free, though for glacial rather than tectonic reasons.

Roughly how long is Chile from north to south?

About 4,300 km

Chile stretches roughly 4,300 km while averaging only about 180 km wide. Laid over Europe it would reach from Norway to North Africa.