What’s the country that European countries share their longest border with? (Multiple sources)

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1. French Guiana, before anyone has to ask.

2. France with Brazil? But I checked, it is true.

3. For now the Kingdom of Denmark also contains The Faroe Islands and Greenland.

4. For Cyprus it’s the British overseas territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

5. Romania’s border with ukraine is 613km while its border with hungary is around 480km, so either the map is wrong or it means the longest continuous border

6. This will be news to the British.

7. Thank you for using the correct Syrian flag, still warms my heart to see it

8. imagine if this wouldve been the real countries here instead

9. Haha France goes into southern America.

10. Fun fact – neighboring countries often report different length of their shared border and the reason isn’t politics that one of the countries is lying or measuring it wrong but because natural borders (like those following rivers or mountain ridges), just like coastlines, are essentially fractals. The shorter ruler you use, the longer the border will be. You may think to be more precise, you need as short a ruler as possible, but as the ruler length approaches zero, the border length can approach infinity, at least in theory.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox#Discovery

11. Depending on which territories are recognised and by whom, France could also have Australia (with a border well over 5000 km).

    At least French and Australian governments would agree.

12. I hate these “oh you didnt know?!?!” maps like Brazil …

13. Is it land or sea border also?

    Because then Greece’s longest border is with Turkey.

14. Wrong, the Austro German border is 900m longer then the Czech german border

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16. Fun fact:
    The German Austrian and German Czech border has the same length with 817km

17. Based on the headline and nitpicking. Nothing says it must be a land border. Going further into nitpicking what definition is there for what constitutes European. The Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland) and Russia share a very long sea border, there is just not a lot of Russian interest in signing an agreement on where that border is. They simply go full Queen mode and scream “we want it all”

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