Countries With the Most Borders

The number of land borders a country has tells a fascinating geopolitical story. China and Russia share the record for the most bordering countries, each sharing land borders with 14 nations. Large countries in central positions tend to have the most neighbors — Brazil borders 10 South American nations, Germany borders 9 European countries, and the Democratic Republic of Congo shares borders with 9 African nations. These border relationships shape trade, migration, diplomacy, and even cultural exchange.

Countries

164

China

Russia

Complete ranking

#	Country	Capital	Population	Area	Region
1	China	Beijing	1.41B	9,706,961 km²	Asia
2	Russia	Moscow	146.03M	17,098,246 km²	Europe
3	Brazil	Brasília	213.42M	8,515,767 km²	Americas
4	DR Congo	Kinshasa	112.83M	2,344,858 km²	Africa
5	Germany	Berlin	83.49M	357,114 km²	Europe
6	Turkey	Ankara	85.66M	783,562 km²	Asia
7	Tanzania	Dodoma	68.15M	947,303 km²	Africa
8	France	Paris	66.35M	543,908 km²	Europe
9	Zambia	Lusaka	19.69M	752,612 km²	Africa
10	Austria	Vienna	9.20M	83,871 km²	Europe
11	Serbia	Belgrade	6.57M	77,589 km²	Europe
12	Iran	Tehran	85.96M	1,648,195 km²	Asia
13	Sudan	Khartoum	51.66M	1,886,068 km²	Africa
14	Algeria	Algiers	47.40M	2,381,741 km²	Africa
15	Poland	Warsaw	37.39M	312,679 km²	Europe
16	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	35.30M	2,149,690 km²	Asia
17	Ukraine	Kyiv	32.86M	603,550 km²	Europe
18	Niger	Niamey	26.31M	1,267,000 km²	Africa
19	Mali	Bamako	22.40M	1,240,192 km²	Africa
20	Hungary	Budapest	9.54M	93,028 km²	Europe
21	India	New Delhi	1.42B	3,287,263 km²	Asia
22	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	111.65M	1,104,300 km²	Africa
23	South Africa	Pretoria	63.10M	1,221,037 km²	Africa
24	Italy	Rome	58.93M	301,336 km²	Europe
25	Iraq	Baghdad	46.12M	438,317 km²	Asia
26	Afghanistan	Kabul	43.84M	652,230 km²	Asia
27	Mozambique	Maputo	34.09M	801,590 km²	Africa
28	Cameroon	Yaoundé	29.44M	475,442 km²	Africa
29	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	24.07M	272,967 km²	Africa
30	Chad	N'Djamena	19.34M	1,284,000 km²	Africa
31	South Sudan	Juba	15.79M	619,745 km²	Africa
32	Guinea	Conakry	14.36M	245,857 km²	Africa
33	Libya	Tripoli	7.46M	1,759,540 km²	Africa
34	Central African Republic	Bangui	6.47M	622,984 km²	Africa
35	Kenya	Nairobi	53.33M	580,367 km²	Africa
36	Colombia	Bogotá	53.06M	1,141,748 km²	Americas
37	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	51.32M	676,578 km²	Asia
38	Spain	Madrid	49.32M	505,992 km²	Europe
39	Argentina	Buenos Aires	46.74M	2,780,400 km²	Americas
40	Uganda	Kampala	45.91M	241,550 km²	Africa
41	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	37.86M	447,400 km²	Asia
42	Peru	Lima	34.35M	1,285,216 km²	Americas
43	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	31.72M	322,463 km²	Africa
44	Syria	Damascus	25.62M	185,180 km²	Asia
45	Kazakhstan	Astana	20.43M	2,724,900 km²	Asia
46	Romania	Bucharest	19.04M	238,391 km²	Europe
47	Senegal	Dakar	18.59M	196,722 km²	Africa
48	Jordan	Amman	11.73M	89,342 km²	Asia
49	Bolivia	Sucre	11.37M	1,098,581 km²	Americas
50	Azerbaijan	Baku	10.24M	86,600 km²	Asia
51	Israel	Jerusalem	10.13M	21,937 km²	Asia
52	Belarus	Minsk	9.11M	207,600 km²	Europe
53	Switzerland	Bern	9.08M	41,284 km²	Europe
54	Laos	Vientiane	7.65M	236,800 km²	Asia
55	Bulgaria	Sofia	6.44M	110,879 km²	Europe
56	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6.14M	342,000 km²	Africa
57	Slovakia	Bratislava	5.41M	49,037 km²	Europe
58	Croatia	Zagreb	3.87M	56,594 km²	Europe
59	North Macedonia	Skopje	1.82M	25,713 km²	Europe
60	Montenegro	Podgorica	623.3K	13,812 km²	Europe
61	Pakistan	Islamabad	241.50M	796,095 km²	Asia
62	Nigeria	Abuja	223.80M	923,768 km²	Africa
63	Egypt	Cairo	107.27M	1,002,450 km²	Africa
64	Thailand	Bangkok	65.86M	513,120 km²	Asia
65	Angola	Luanda	36.17M	1,246,700 km²	Africa
66	Guatemala	Guatemala City	18.08M	108,889 km²	Americas
67	Zimbabwe	Harare	17.07M	390,757 km²	Africa
68	Rwanda	Kigali	14.10M	26,338 km²	Africa
69	Benin	Porto-Novo	13.22M	112,622 km²	Africa
70	Belgium	Brussels	11.83M	30,528 km²	Europe
71	Czechia	Prague	10.88M	78,865 km²	Europe
72	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	10.50M	143,100 km²	Asia
73	Greece	Athens	10.40M	131,990 km²	Europe
74	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	7.28M	199,951 km²	Asia
75	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	7.06M	488,100 km²	Asia
76	Mauritania	Nouakchott	4.93M	1,030,700 km²	Africa
77	Georgia	Tbilisi	4.00M	69,700 km²	Asia
78	Armenia	Yerevan	3.08M	29,743 km²	Asia
79	Namibia	Windhoek	3.02M	825,615 km²	Africa
80	Lithuania	Vilnius	2.89M	65,300 km²	Europe
81	Albania	Tirana	2.36M	28,748 km²	Europe
82	Botswana	Gaborone	2.36M	582,000 km²	Africa
83	Slovenia	Ljubljana	2.13M	20,273 km²	Europe
84	Latvia	Riga	1.83M	64,559 km²	Europe
85	Kosovo	Pristina	1.59M	10,908 km²	Europe
86	Indonesia	Jakarta	284.44M	1,904,569 km²	Asia
87	Mexico	Mexico City	130.58M	1,964,375 km²	Americas
88	Vietnam	Hanoi	101.34M	331,212 km²	Asia
89	Morocco	Rabat	36.83M	446,550 km²	Africa
90	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	34.23M	330,803 km²	Asia
91	Ghana	Accra	33.74M	238,533 km²	Africa
92	Venezuela	Caracas	28.52M	916,445 km²	Americas
93	North Korea	Pyongyang	25.95M	120,538 km²	Asia
94	Malawi	Lilongwe	20.73M	118,484 km²	Africa
95	Chile	Santiago	20.21M	756,102 km²	Americas
96	Somalia	Mogadishu	19.66M	637,657 km²	Africa
97	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	17.58M	181,035 km²	Asia
98	Burundi	Gitega	12.33M	27,834 km²	Africa
99	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	9.89M	112,492 km²	Americas
100	Togo	Lomé	8.10M	56,785 km²	Africa
101	Paraguay	Asunción	6.11M	406,752 km²	Americas
102	Finland	Helsinki	5.65M	338,455 km²	Europe
103	Norway	Oslo	5.61M	386,224 km²	Europe
104	Palestine	Ramallah	5.48M	6,220 km²	Asia
105	Oman	Muscat	5.34M	309,500 km²	Asia
106	Liberia	Monrovia	5.25M	111,369 km²	Africa
107	Eritrea	Asmara	3.61M	117,600 km²	Africa
108	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	3.42M	51,209 km²	Europe
109	Gabon	Libreville	2.47M	267,668 km²	Africa
110	Djibouti	Djibouti	1.07M	23,200 km²	Africa
111	Guyana	Georgetown	773.0K	214,969 km²	Americas
112	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	682.0K	2,586 km²	Europe
113	Suriname	Paramaribo	616.5K	163,820 km²	Americas
114	Western Sahara	El Aaiún	600.9K	266,000 km²	Africa
115	United States	Washington, D.C.	340.11M	9,525,067 km²	Americas
116	Bangladesh	Dhaka	169.83M	147,570 km²	Asia
117	Yemen	Sana'a	32.68M	527,968 km²	Asia
118	Nepal	Kathmandu	29.91M	147,181 km²	Asia
119	Ecuador	Quito	18.10M	276,841 km²	Americas
120	Netherlands	Amsterdam	18.10M	41,865 km²	Europe
121	Tunisia	Tunis	11.97M	163,610 km²	Africa
122	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	11.29M	83,600 km²	Asia
123	Sweden	Stockholm	10.61M	450,295 km²	Europe
124	Sierra Leone	Freetown	9.08M	71,740 km²	Africa
125	Nicaragua	Managua	6.80M	130,373 km²	Americas
126	El Salvador	San Salvador	6.03M	21,041 km²	Americas
127	Lebanon	Beirut	5.49M	10,452 km²	Asia
128	Costa Rica	San José	5.31M	51,100 km²	Americas
129	Kuwait	Kuwait City	4.88M	17,818 km²	Asia
130	Panama	Panama City	4.06M	75,417 km²	Americas
131	Mongolia	Ulan Bator	3.54M	1,564,110 km²	Asia
132	Uruguay	Montevideo	3.50M	181,034 km²	Americas
133	Moldova	Chișinău	2.75M	33,847 km²	Europe
134	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	1.78M	36,125 km²	Africa
135	Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	1.67M	28,051 km²	Africa
136	Estonia	Tallinn	1.37M	45,227 km²	Europe
137	Eswatini	Mbabane	1.24M	17,364 km²	Africa
138	Bhutan	Thimphu	784.0K	38,394 km²	Asia
139	Belize	Belmopan	417.6K	22,966 km²	Americas
140	French Guiana	Cayenne	292.4K	83,534 km²	Americas
141	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	88.4K	468 km²	Europe
142	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	40.9K	160 km²	Europe
143	United Kingdom	London	69.28M	244,376 km²	Europe
144	South Korea	Seoul	51.16M	100,210 km²	Asia
145	Canada	Ottawa	41.65M	9,984,670 km²	Americas
146	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	11.87M	27,750 km²	Americas
147	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	11.78M	462,840 km²	Oceania
148	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	10.77M	48,671 km²	Americas
149	Portugal	Lisbon	10.75M	92,090 km²	Europe
150	Hong Kong	City of Victoria	7.53M	1,104 km²	Asia
151	Denmark	Copenhagen	6.01M	43,094 km²	Europe
152	Ireland	Dublin	5.46M	70,273 km²	Europe
153	Qatar	Doha	3.17M	11,586 km²	Asia
154	Gambia	Banjul	2.42M	10,689 km²	Africa
155	Lesotho	Maseru	2.12M	30,355 km²	Africa
156	Timor-Leste	Dili	1.39M	14,874 km²	Asia
157	Macau	—	685.9K	30 km²	Asia
158	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	455.5K	5,765 km²	Asia
159	Sint Maarten	Philipsburg	41.3K	34 km²	Americas
160	Monaco	Monaco	38.4K	2.02 km²	Europe
161	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	38.0K	6 km²	Europe
162	San Marino	City of San Marino	34.1K	61 km²	Europe
163	Saint Martin	Marigot	31.5K	53 km²	Americas
164	Vatican City	Vatican City	882	0.49 km²	Europe

Frequently Asked Questions

Which country has the most borders?

China and Russia are tied with 14 land borders each. China borders: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Which country has no land borders?

Island nations like Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Sri Lanka, Cuba, Madagascar, and many Pacific island states have no land borders at all.

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