Countries by Number of Land Borders - Ranking

Discover which countries have the most (and least) neighboring nations

About This Ranking

Welcome to our Countries by Land Borders Ranking! This ranking shows all 250 countries ordered by the number of neighboring countries they share land borders with.

Key Statistics:

Most Borders: Country with the most land borders has 16 neighbors
Countries with Borders: 164 countries share land borders
Island Nations: 86 countries have no land borders
Interactive Maps: Click any country to see its neighbors on an interactive map

Countries are ranked from those with the most land borders to those with the least. Island nations and countries without land borders appear at the end of the ranking.

Top 3 countries with the most neighbors: China (16 borders), Russia (14 borders), Brazil (10 borders).

250

Total Countries

16

Most Borders

86

Island Nations

Complete Ranking (250 Countries)

Rank	Country	Capital	ISO Code	Land Borders	Action
🥇 #1	China	Beijing	CN	16	View
🥈 #2	Russia	Moscow	RU	14	View
🥉 #3	Brazil	Brasília	BR	10	View
#4	DR Congo	Kinshasa	CD	9	View
#4	Germany	Berlin	DE	9	View
#6	Austria	Vienna	AT	8	View
#6	France	Paris	FR	8	View
#6	Serbia	Belgrade	RS	8	View
#6	Tanzania	Dodoma	TZ	8	View
#6	Turkey	Ankara	TR	8	View
#6	Zambia	Lusaka	ZM	8	View
#12	Algeria	Algiers	DZ	7	View
#12	Hungary	Budapest	HU	7	View
#12	Iran	Tehran	IR	7	View
#12	Mali	Bamako	ML	7	View
#12	Niger	Niamey	NE	7	View
#12	Poland	Warsaw	PL	7	View
#12	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	SA	7	View
#12	Sudan	Khartoum	SD	7	View
#12	Ukraine	Kyiv	UA	7	View
#21	Afghanistan	Kabul	AF	6	View
#21	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	BF	6	View
#21	Cameroon	Yaoundé	CM	6	View
#21	Central African Republic	Bangui	CF	6	View
#21	Chad	N'Djamena	TD	6	View
#21	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	ET	6	View
#21	Guinea	Conakry	GN	6	View
#21	India	New Delhi	IN	6	View
#21	Iraq	Baghdad	IQ	6	View
#21	Italy	Rome	IT	6	View
#21	Libya	Tripoli	LY	6	View
#21	Mozambique	Maputo	MZ	6	View
#21	South Africa	Pretoria	ZA	6	View
#21	South Sudan	Juba	SS	6	View
#35	Argentina	Buenos Aires	AR	5	View
#35	Azerbaijan	Baku	AZ	5	View
#35	Belarus	Minsk	BY	5	View
#35	Bolivia	Sucre	BO	5	View
#35	Bulgaria	Sofia	BG	5	View
#35	Colombia	Bogotá	CO	5	View
#35	Croatia	Zagreb	HR	5	View
#35	Israel	Jerusalem	IL	5	View
#35	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	CI	5	View
#35	Jordan	Amman	JO	5	View
#35	Kazakhstan	Astana	KZ	5	View
#35	Kenya	Nairobi	KE	5	View
#35	Laos	Vientiane	LA	5	View
#35	Montenegro	Podgorica	ME	5	View
#35	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	MM	5	View
#35	North Macedonia	Skopje	MK	5	View
#35	Peru	Lima	PE	5	View
#35	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	CG	5	View
#35	Romania	Bucharest	RO	5	View
#35	Senegal	Dakar	SN	5	View
#35	Slovakia	Bratislava	SK	5	View
#35	Spain	Madrid	ES	5	View
#35	Switzerland	Bern	CH	5	View
#35	Syria	Damascus	SY	5	View
#35	Uganda	Kampala	UG	5	View
#35	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	UZ	5	View
#61	Albania	Tirana	AL	4	View
#61	Angola	Luanda	AO	4	View
#61	Armenia	Yerevan	AM	4	View
#61	Belgium	Brussels	BE	4	View
#61	Benin	Porto-Novo	BJ	4	View
#61	Botswana	Gaborone	BW	4	View
#61	Czechia	Prague	CZ	4	View
#61	Egypt	Cairo	EG	4	View
#61	Georgia	Tbilisi	GE	4	View
#61	Greece	Athens	GR	4	View
#61	Guatemala	Guatemala City	GT	4	View
#61	Kosovo	Pristina	XK	4	View
#61	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	KG	4	View
#61	Latvia	Riga	LV	4	View
#61	Lithuania	Vilnius	LT	4	View
#61	Mauritania	Nouakchott	MR	4	View
#61	Namibia	Windhoek	NA	4	View
#61	Nigeria	Abuja	NG	4	View
#61	Pakistan	Islamabad	PK	4	View
#61	Rwanda	Kigali	RW	4	View
#61	Slovenia	Ljubljana	SI	4	View
#61	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	TJ	4	View
#61	Thailand	Bangkok	TH	4	View
#61	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	TM	4	View
#61	Zimbabwe	Harare	ZW	4	View
#86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	BA	3	View
#86	Burundi	Gitega	BI	3	View
#86	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	KH	3	View
#86	Chile	Santiago	CL	3	View
#86	Djibouti	Djibouti	DJ	3	View
#86	Eritrea	Asmara	ER	3	View
#86	Finland	Helsinki	FI	3	View
#86	Gabon	Libreville	GA	3	View
#86	Ghana	Accra	GH	3	View
#86	Guyana	Georgetown	GY	3	View
#86	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	HN	3	View
#86	Indonesia	Jakarta	ID	3	View
#86	Liberia	Monrovia	LR	3	View
#86	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	LU	3	View
#86	Malawi	Lilongwe	MW	3	View
#86	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	MY	3	View
#86	Mexico	Mexico City	MX	3	View
#86	Morocco	Rabat	MA	3	View
#86	North Korea	Pyongyang	KP	3	View
#86	Norway	Oslo	NO	3	View
#86	Oman	Muscat	OM	3	View
#86	Palestine	Ramallah	PS	3	View
#86	Paraguay	Asunción	PY	3	View
#86	Somalia	Mogadishu	SO	3	View
#86	Suriname	Paramaribo	SR	3	View
#86	Togo	Lomé	TG	3	View
#86	Venezuela	Caracas	VE	3	View
#86	Vietnam	Hanoi	VN	3	View
#86	Western Sahara	El Aaiún	EH	3	View
#115	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	AD	2	View
#115	Bangladesh	Dhaka	BD	2	View
#115	Belize	Belmopan	BZ	2	View
#115	Bhutan	Thimphu	BT	2	View
#115	Costa Rica	San José	CR	2	View
#115	Ecuador	Quito	EC	2	View
#115	El Salvador	San Salvador	SV	2	View
#115	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	GQ	2	View
#115	Estonia	Tallinn	EE	2	View
#115	Eswatini	Mbabane	SZ	2	View
#115	French Guiana	Cayenne	GF	2	View
#115	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	GW	2	View
#115	Kuwait	Kuwait City	KW	2	View
#115	Lebanon	Beirut	LB	2	View
#115	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	LI	2	View
#115	Moldova	Chișinău	MD	2	View
#115	Mongolia	Ulan Bator	MN	2	View
#115	Nepal	Kathmandu	NP	2	View
#115	Netherlands	Amsterdam	NL	2	View
#115	Nicaragua	Managua	NI	2	View
#115	Panama	Panama City	PA	2	View
#115	Sierra Leone	Freetown	SL	2	View
#115	Sweden	Stockholm	SE	2	View
#115	Tunisia	Tunis	TN	2	View
#115	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	AE	2	View
#115	United States	Washington, D.C.	US	2	View
#115	Uruguay	Montevideo	UY	2	View
#115	Yemen	Sana'a	YE	2	View
#143	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	BN	1	View
#143	Canada	Ottawa	CA	1	View
#143	Denmark	Copenhagen	DK	1	View
#143	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	DO	1	View
#143	Gambia	Banjul	GM	1	View
#143	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	GI	1	View
#143	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	HT	1	View
#143	Hong Kong	City of Victoria	HK	1	View
#143	Ireland	Dublin	IE	1	View
#143	Lesotho	Maseru	LS	1	View
#143	Macau	N/A	MO	1	View
#143	Monaco	Monaco	MC	1	View
#143	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	PG	1	View
#143	Portugal	Lisbon	PT	1	View
#143	Qatar	Doha	QA	1	View
#143	Saint Martin	Marigot	MF	1	View
#143	San Marino	City of San Marino	SM	1	View
#143	Sint Maarten	Philipsburg	SX	1	View
#143	South Korea	Seoul	KR	1	View
#143	Timor-Leste	Dili	TL	1	View
#143	United Kingdom	London	GB	1	View
#143	Vatican City	Vatican City	VA	1	View
#165	American Samoa	Pago Pago	AS	0	View
#165	Anguilla	The Valley	AI	0	View
#165	Antarctica	N/A	AQ	0	View
#165	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	AG	0	View
#165	Aruba	Oranjestad	AW	0	View
#165	Australia	Canberra	AU	0	View
#165	Bahamas	Nassau	BS	0	View
#165	Bahrain	Manama	BH	0	View
#165	Barbados	Bridgetown	BB	0	View
#165	Bermuda	Hamilton	BM	0	View
#165	Bouvet Island	N/A	BV	0	View
#165	British Indian Ocean Territory	Diego Garcia	IO	0	View
#165	British Virgin Islands	Road Town	VG	0	View
#165	Cape Verde	Praia	CV	0	View
#165	Caribbean Netherlands	Kralendijk	BQ	0	View
#165	Cayman Islands	George Town	KY	0	View
#165	Christmas Island	Flying Fish Cove	CX	0	View
#165	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	West Island	CC	0	View
#165	Comoros	Moroni	KM	0	View
#165	Cook Islands	Avarua	CK	0	View
#165	Cuba	Havana	CU	0	View
#165	Curaçao	Willemstad	CW	0	View
#165	Cyprus	Nicosia	CY	0	View
#165	Dominica	Roseau	DM	0	View
#165	Falkland Islands	Stanley	FK	0	View
#165	Faroe Islands	Tórshavn	FO	0	View
#165	Fiji	Suva	FJ	0	View
#165	French Polynesia	Papeetē	PF	0	View
#165	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Port-aux-Français	TF	0	View
#165	Greenland	Nuuk	GL	0	View
#165	Grenada	St. George's	GD	0	View
#165	Guadeloupe	Basse-Terre	GP	0	View
#165	Guam	Hagåtña	GU	0	View
#165	Guernsey	St. Peter Port	GG	0	View
#165	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	N/A	HM	0	View
#165	Iceland	Reykjavik	IS	0	View
#165	Isle of Man	Douglas	IM	0	View
#165	Jamaica	Kingston	JM	0	View
#165	Japan	Tokyo	JP	0	View
#165	Jersey	Saint Helier	JE	0	View
#165	Kiribati	South Tarawa	KI	0	View
#165	Madagascar	Antananarivo	MG	0	View
#165	Maldives	Malé	MV	0	View
#165	Malta	Valletta	MT	0	View
#165	Marshall Islands	Majuro	MH	0	View
#165	Martinique	Fort-de-France	MQ	0	View
#165	Mauritius	Port Louis	MU	0	View
#165	Mayotte	Mamoudzou	YT	0	View
#165	Micronesia	Palikir	FM	0	View
#165	Montserrat	Plymouth	MS	0	View
#165	Nauru	Yaren	NR	0	View
#165	New Caledonia	Nouméa	NC	0	View
#165	New Zealand	Wellington	NZ	0	View
#165	Niue	Alofi	NU	0	View
#165	Norfolk Island	Kingston	NF	0	View
#165	Northern Mariana Islands	Saipan	MP	0	View
#165	Palau	Ngerulmud	PW	0	View
#165	Philippines	Manila	PH	0	View
#165	Pitcairn Islands	Adamstown	PN	0	View
#165	Puerto Rico	San Juan	PR	0	View
#165	Réunion	Saint-Denis	RE	0	View
#165	Saint Barthélemy	Gustavia	BL	0	View
#165	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Jamestown	SH	0	View
#165	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	KN	0	View
#165	Saint Lucia	Castries	LC	0	View
#165	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Saint-Pierre	PM	0	View
#165	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	VC	0	View
#165	Samoa	Apia	WS	0	View
#165	Seychelles	Victoria	SC	0	View
#165	Singapore	Singapore	SG	0	View
#165	Solomon Islands	Honiara	SB	0	View
#165	South Georgia	King Edward Point	GS	0	View
#165	Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	LK	0	View
#165	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Longyearbyen	SJ	0	View
#165	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	ST	0	View
#165	Taiwan	Taipei	TW	0	View
#165	Tokelau	Fakaofo	TK	0	View
#165	Tonga	Nuku'alofa	TO	0	View
#165	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	TT	0	View
#165	Turks and Caicos Islands	Cockburn Town	TC	0	View
#165	Tuvalu	Funafuti	TV	0	View
#165	United States Minor Outlying Islands	Washington DC	UM	0	View
#165	United States Virgin Islands	Charlotte Amalie	VI	0	View
#165	Vanuatu	Port Vila	VU	0	View
#165	Wallis and Futuna	Mata-Utu	WF	0	View
#165	Åland Islands	Mariehamn	AX	0	View