The CIA World Factbook Edition 2019 Geography
Coastline In 36 editions of 36.
Coastline was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2019 edition carries it in 266 entries, in its Geography section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2019 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 entryWorld
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, Taiwan, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands, Wake Island, Wallis and Futuna
Africa
56 entriesSaint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- Saint Helena:
- 60 km
- Ascension Island:
- NA
- Tristan da Cunha (island only):
- 34 km
Antarctic Region
5 entriesFrench 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
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesKazakhstan
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)
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 entriesEurope
49 entriesNorway
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)
Middle East
19 entriesNorth America
6 entriesCanada
202,080 km
note: the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - consisting of 36,563 islands, several of them some of the world's largest - contributes to Canada easily having the longest coastline in the world
Oceania
34 entriesUnited 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
South America
13 entriesSoutheast Asia
19 entriesOceans
5 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2019, “Coastline”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/coastline/2019.