The CIA World Factbook Edition 2014 Geography

Coastline In 36 editions of 36.

Coastline was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2014 edition carries it in 266 entries, in its Geography section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2014 edition
266
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Coastline” (1990 to 2025).

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World

1 entry

World

356,000 km

note: 95 nations and other entities are islands that border no other countries, they include: American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Baker Island, Barbados, Bermuda, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cabo Verde, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guernsey, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Howland Island, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jan Mayen, Japan, Jarvis Island, Jersey, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Federated States of Micronesia, Midway Islands, Montserrat, Nauru, Navassa Island, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palmyra Atoll, Paracel Islands, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Svalbard, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands, Wake Island, Wallis and Futuna, Taiwan

Africa

56 entries

Algeria

998 km

Angola

1,600 km

Benin

121 km

Botswana

0 km (landlocked)

Burkina Faso

0 km (landlocked)

Burundi

0 km (landlocked)

Cabo Verde

965 km

Cameroon

402 km

Central African Republic

0 km (landlocked)

Chad

0 km (landlocked)

Comoros

340 km

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

37 km

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

169 km

Cote d'Ivoire

515 km

Djibouti

314 km

Egypt

2,450 km

Equatorial Guinea

296 km

Eritrea

2,234 km (mainland on Red Sea 1,151 km, islands in Red Sea 1,083 km)

Swaziland now Eswatini

0 km (landlocked)

Ethiopia

0 km (landlocked)

Gabon

885 km

Gambia, The now The Gambia

80 km

Ghana

539 km

Guinea

320 km

Guinea-Bissau

350 km

Kenya

536 km

Lesotho

0 km (landlocked)

Liberia

579 km

Libya

1,770 km

Madagascar

4,828 km

Malawi

0 km (landlocked)

Mali

0 km (landlocked)

Mauritania

754 km

Mauritius

177 km

Morocco

1,835 km

Mozambique

2,470 km

Namibia

1,572 km

Niger

0 km (landlocked)

Nigeria

853 km

Rwanda

0 km (landlocked)

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena:
60 km
Ascension Island:
NA
Tristan da Cunha:
40 km

Sao Tome and Principe

209 km

Senegal

531 km

Seychelles

491 km

Sierra Leone

402 km

Somalia

3,025 km

South Africa

2,798 km

South Sudan

0 km (landlocked)

Sudan

853 km

Tanzania

1,424 km

Togo

56 km

Tunisia

1,148 km

Uganda

0 km (landlocked)

Western Sahara

1,110 km

Zambia

0 km (landlocked)

Zimbabwe

0 km (landlocked)

Antarctic Region

5 entries

Antarctica

17,968 km

Bouvet Island

29.6 km

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul):
28 km
Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul):
Iles Kerguelen:
2,800 km
Bassas da India (Iles Eparses):
35.2 km
Europa Island (Iles Eparses):
22.2 km
Glorioso Islands (Iles Eparses):
35.2 km
Juan de Nova Island (Iles Eparses):
24.1 km
Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses):
3.7 km

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

101.9 km

South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands now South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

NA

Arctic Region

4 entries

Greenland

44,087 km

Iceland

4,970 km

Jan Mayen

124.1 km

Svalbard

3,587 km

Asia

23 entries

Afghanistan

0 km (landlocked)

Armenia

0 km (landlocked)

Azerbaijan

0 km (landlocked); note - Azerbaijan borders the Caspian Sea (713 km)

Bangladesh

580 km

Bhutan

0 km (landlocked)

British Indian Ocean Territory

698 km

China

14,500 km

Georgia

310 km

India

7,000 km

Japan

29,751 km

Kazakhstan

0 km (landlocked); note - Kazakhstan borders the Aral Sea, now split into two bodies of water (1,070 km), and the Caspian Sea (1,894 km)

Korea, North now North Korea

2,495 km

Korea, South now South Korea

2,413 km

Kyrgyzstan

0 km (landlocked)

Maldives

644 km

Mongolia

0 km (landlocked)

Nepal

0 km (landlocked)

Pakistan

1,046 km

Russia

37,653 km

Sri Lanka

1,340 km

Tajikistan

0 km (landlocked)

Turkmenistan

0 km; note - Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea (1,768 km)

Uzbekistan

0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline

Central America and the Caribbean

32 entries

Anguilla

61 km

Antigua and Barbuda

153 km

Aruba

68.5 km

Bahamas, The now The Bahamas

3,542 km

Barbados

97 km

Belize

386 km

British Virgin Islands

80 km

Cayman Islands

160 km

Costa Rica

1,290 km

Cuba

3,735 km

Curacao

364 km

Dominica

148 km

Dominican Republic

1,288 km

El Salvador

307 km

Grenada

121 km

Guatemala

400 km

Haiti

1,771 km

Honduras

Caribbean Sea 669 km; Gulf of Fonseca 163 km

Jamaica

1,022 km

Montserrat

40 km

Navassa Island

8 km

Nicaragua

910 km

Panama

2,490 km

Puerto Rico

501 km

Saint Kitts and Nevis

135 km

Saint Lucia

158 km

Saint Martin

58.9 km (for entire island)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

84 km

Sint Maarten

364 km

Trinidad and Tobago

362 km

Turks and Caicos Islands

389 km

Virgin Islands

188 km

Europe

49 entries

Albania

362 km

Andorra

0 km (landlocked)

Austria

0 km (landlocked)

Belarus

0 km (landlocked)

Belgium

66.5 km

Bosnia and Herzegovina

20 km

Bulgaria

354 km

Croatia

5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)

Czech Republic now Czechia

0 km (landlocked)

Denmark

7,314 km

Estonia

3,794 km

European Union

65,992.9 km

Faroe Islands

1,117 km

Finland

1,250 km

France

total:
4,853 km
metropolitan France:
3,427 km

Germany

2,389 km

Gibraltar

12 km

Greece

13,676 km

Guernsey

50 km

Holy See (Vatican City)

0 km (landlocked)

Hungary

0 km (landlocked)

Ireland

1,448 km

Isle of Man

160 km

Italy

7,600 km

Jersey

70 km

Kosovo

0 km (landlocked)

Latvia

498 km

Liechtenstein

0 km (doubly landlocked)

Lithuania

90 km

Luxembourg

0 km (landlocked)

Malta

196.8 km (excludes 56 km for the island of Gozo)

Moldova

0 km (landlocked)

Monaco

4.1 km

Montenegro

293.5 km

Netherlands

451 km

Macedonia now North Macedonia

0 km (landlocked)

Norway

25,148 km (includes mainland 2,650 km, as well as long fjords, numerous small islands, and minor indentations 22,498 km; length of island coastlines 58,133 km)

Poland

440 km

Portugal

1,793 km

Romania

225 km

San Marino

0 km (landlocked)

Serbia

0 km (landlocked)

Slovakia

0 km (landlocked)

Slovenia

46.6 km

Spain

4,964 km

Sweden

3,218 km

Switzerland

0 km (landlocked)

Ukraine

2,782 km

United Kingdom

12,429 km

Middle East

19 entries

Akrotiri

56.3 km

Bahrain

161 km

Cyprus

648 km

Dhekelia

27.5 km

Gaza Strip

40 km

Iran

2,440 km; note - Iran also borders the Caspian Sea (740 km)

Iraq

58 km

Israel

273 km

Jordan

26 km

Kuwait

499 km

Lebanon

225 km

Oman

2,092 km

Qatar

563 km

Saudi Arabia

2,640 km

Syria

193 km

Turkey now Turkiye

7,200 km

United Arab Emirates

1,318 km

West Bank

0 km (landlocked)

Yemen

1,906 km

North America

6 entries

Bermuda

103 km

Canada

202,080 km

Clipperton Island

11.1 km

Mexico

9,330 km

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

120 km

United States

19,924 km

Oceania

34 entries

American Samoa

116 km

Australia

25,760 km

Cook Islands

120 km

Coral Sea Islands

3,095 km

Fiji

1,129 km

French Polynesia

2,525 km

Guam

125.5 km

Howland Island

6.4 km

Jarvis Island

8 km

Johnston Atoll

34 km

Kingman Reef

3 km

Kiribati

1,143 km

Marshall Islands

370.4 km

Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia

6,112 km

Midway Islands

15 km

Nauru

30 km

New Caledonia

2,254 km

New Zealand

15,134 km

Niue

64 km

Norfolk Island

32 km

Northern Mariana Islands

1,482 km

Palau

1,519 km

Palmyra Atoll

14.5 km

Papua New Guinea

5,152 km

Pitcairn Islands

51 km

Samoa

403 km

Solomon Islands

5,313 km

Tokelau

101 km

Tonga

419 km

Tuvalu

24 km

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges

Baker Island:
4.8 km
Howland Island:
6.4 km
Jarvis Island:
8 km
Johnston Atoll:
34 km
Kingman Reef:
3 km
Midway Islands:
15 km
Palmyra Atoll:
14.5 km

Vanuatu

2,528 km

Wake Island

19.3 km

Wallis and Futuna

129 km

South America

13 entries

Argentina

4,989 km

Bolivia

0 km (landlocked)

Brazil

7,491 km

Chile

6,435 km

Colombia

3,208 km (Caribbean Sea 1,760 km, North Pacific Ocean 1,448 km)

Ecuador

2,237 km

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

1,288 km

Guyana

459 km

Paraguay

0 km (landlocked)

Peru

2,414 km

Suriname

386 km

Uruguay

660 km

Venezuela

2,800 km

Southeast Asia

19 entries

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

74.1 km

Brunei

161 km

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

1,930 km

Cambodia

443 km

Christmas Island

138.9 km

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

26 km

Hong Kong

733 km

Indonesia

54,716 km

Laos

0 km (landlocked)

Macau

41 km

Malaysia

4,675 km (Peninsular Malaysia 2,068 km, East Malaysia 2,607 km)

Paracel Islands

518 km

Philippines

36,289 km

Singapore

193 km

Spratly Islands

926 km

Taiwan

1,566.3 km

Thailand

3,219 km

Timor-Leste

706 km

Vietnam

3,444 km (excludes islands)

Oceans

5 entries

Arctic Ocean

45,389 km

Atlantic Ocean

111,866 km

Indian Ocean

66,526 km

Pacific Ocean

135,663 km

Southern Ocean

17,968 km

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2014, “Coastline”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/coastline/2014.

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