Q: Is it possible to describe the size of your problem, how many
kilometers of borders there are in Russia for example?

KRAVCHENKO: As far as the length of the border... Recently, we
celebrated Customs Officer Day. It was mentioned in the press that
the length of our border is 60 thousand kilometers. This is 1 1/2
times the length of the equator, or even 2 equators, I don't know
exactly. This is the scale!!! We have the longest land border in the
world.

NIKOLAI KRAVCHENKO is the head of the Nuclear Materials Division of
the Russian State Customs Committee. Faced with changing borders and
a recognition of the scope of the problems associated with nuclear
contraband, Mr. Kravchenko is attempting to introduce new procedures
and technologies to tighten nuclear customs control.

(I thought 14,4500 km seemed rather short - JG)

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., johnfrancisgriffiths@h... wrote:
> I have seen the total land border of the Russian Federation given
as
> 14,500 km (and sea boundary of 38,800 km)
> (www.ehis.navy.mil/onrnews/dorman/CDONEW22.htm)
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry ten Veen" <pa8km@a...> wrote:
>
> >
> > So now we have:
> > number of b. (319)
> > highest number of b. per continent (Africa=109)
> > number of coastal b. (appr. 420 - 140 recognized)
> > highest number of borders compered to size of the countries per
> continent (Europe)
> > most frequently crossed b. (Mexico - USA)
> > country with most b. (China = 14 = Hong Kong and Macau excleded)
> > country with most coastal b. (Indonesia = 19)
> > longest coastal b. (Greenland - Canada)
> > longest unbroken b. (Canada - USA)
> > longest unbroken land b. (Chile - Argentina)
> > shortest b. (Gibraltar - Spain)
> > shortest stretch of broken land b. (Morocco - Spain at El Peñon
> de Velez de la Gomera)
> > former best defended b. - West Germany - East Germany)
> >
> > Missing record:
> > less frequently crossed b. (Korea's ?)
> > highest total length of b. (China ?)
> >
> >
> > gl
> > Harry ten Veen