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

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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