In case anyone's fretting about the non-appearance of my grand EEZ
border survey, I'm struggling at present for internal consistency. If
country by country you list all bordering countries, the result
should *not* be an odd number. Nor should I have a country by country
tripoint list that adds up to a number indivisible by three!
But it's a hard and tedious job finding the errors in a list of (at
present) 1043 border segments, classified as wet, dry, mixed or with
Everyone's Land (the junction of EEZ and high sea).
But here are some tasters:
India has the largest number of border segments, 217, though these
are with only 10 other countries. Bangladesh is even more extreme,
sporting 202 border segments with only two other countries. It has
two tripoints (one wet, one dry) and two binational quadripoints at
the enclaves of Jote Nijama and Bara Saradubi.
Of the other countries, the French empire gives France the largest
number of tripoints (either 61 or 60, depending on the run of the
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten maritime boundary), with 69 or 68 border
segments adjoining 35 or 34 other countries.
The UK interestingly has 6 more border segments than the USA, but 5
fewer tripoints. How? It has 13 exclave borders (single country or
high seas, therefore no tripoint), compared to the USA's two.

Right, that's enough. Back to tearing my hair out.

Grant