Geography trivia

[Recursion]

With what country does France share its longest land border?

[Laelth]

1. Probably Spain. n/t

-Laelth

[Coleman]

2. Spain

[Recursion]

21. Alas, no. Shorter by over 100 km (nt)

[underpants]

3. England

[mr_lebowski]

5. Land Border, not English Channel border ;) nt

[underpants]

6. What do you think is under the channel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_France

[mr_lebowski]

8. I don't think that's what the OP had in mind when they said 'land borders' ...

I may be wrong, but

[underpants]

14. I know

I was kidding

[Recursion]

11. At the surface of the channel is a maritime, not land, border (nt)

[underpants]

17. Okay then....Nebraska

I was kidding. I think I found the answer. Interesting.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Gotta be Belgium ... Belgium is #1 in everything ... (nt)

[Recursion]

12. Sadly including Covid numbers -- holy hell

That is not a good look

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Metropolitan France or also the "Outre-mer" territories?

[Recursion]

10. Overseas France is still France (nt)

[yonder]

9. My first guess would be Spain, but that's too easy. Italy?

[Recursion]

20. Andorra!

They serrated their border especially to artificially lengthen it.

[lastlib]

13. According to Bing, it's Brazil..........

WHUH???!1?

730 km --

Second is Spain, 623 km, then Belgium, 620 km, then Switzerland, 573 km.

BRAZIL??!? Still shaking my head over that one.......

[underpants]

15. French Guyana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil%E2%80%93France_border

[Recursion]

16. Ding ding ding

Brazil. Brazil and France are also the two countries with a land border whose capital cities are farthest apart.

The French Guiana/Brazil land border is France's longest land border, and actually takes up the vast majority of their border control budget since all of their other bordering states are members of the EU and Schengen.

France also shares a causeway connection with Canada, and a land border with the Netherlands on a Caribbean island.

[Laelth]

18. I suppose. If French Guyana is still "un departement de France."

If so, French Guyana and Brazil would share a substantial land border.



-Laelth

[Recursion]

19. It is. French Guiana is a Department of France and elects MPs to parliament

Its citizens are citizens of France and of the EU, although there are practicalities that don't let them operate entirely within the Single Market, though France is working to rectify those.

[Laelth]

22. Cool.

I knew France still held on to Martinique and Corsica. Wasn’t sure whether French Guyana was still un departement de la Republique.

Good to know!



-Laelth

[DFW]

23. Guadeloupe, too

Paris to Brasilia--that is a hard distance to beat between two countries with an adjacent land border.