Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Guinness Book of Records<br/>
Date: Nov 29, 2001 @ 19:50<br/>
Author: jamatotest (jamatotest &lt;jamato@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1558123496">Does anyone know how much of Russia&#39;s sea boundary adjoins the US? (Alaska,<br/>
including the Aleutian islands?) I would suspect that figure would be pretty<br/>
close to the ~2600km figure previously quoted for Greenland/Canada.<br/>
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Jon<br/>
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:35 PM<br/>
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Guinness Book of Records<br/>
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I have seen the total land border of the Russian Federation given as<br/>
14,500 km (and sea boundary of 38,800 km)<br/>
(www.ehis.navy.mil/onrnews/dorman/CDONEW22.htm)<br/>
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Harry ten Veen&quot; &lt;pa8km@a...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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&gt;<br/>
&gt;   So now we have:<br/>
&gt;   number of b. (319)<br/>
&gt;   highest number of b. per continent (Africa=109)<br/>
&gt;   number of coastal b. (appr. 420 - 140 recognized)<br/>
&gt;   highest number of borders compered to size of the countries per<br/>
continent (Europe)<br/>
&gt;   most frequently crossed b. (Mexico - USA)<br/>
&gt;   country with most b. (China = 14 = Hong Kong and Macau excleded)<br/>
&gt;   country with most coastal b. (Indonesia = 19)<br/>
&gt;   longest coastal b. (Greenland - Canada)<br/>
&gt;   longest unbroken b. (Canada - USA)<br/>
&gt;   longest unbroken land b. (Chile - Argentina)<br/>
&gt;   shortest b. (Gibraltar - Spain)<br/>
&gt;   shortest stretch of broken land b. (Morocco - Spain at El Peñon<br/>
de Velez de la Gomera)<br/>
&gt;   former best defended b. - West Germany - East Germany)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;   Missing record:<br/>
&gt;   less frequently crossed b. (Korea&#39;s ?)<br/>
&gt;   highest total length of b. (China ?)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;   gl<br/>
&gt;   Harry ten Veen<br/>
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