World: Countries and Territories with the Most Land Borders

Figures as of October 8, 2026

Rank	Country / Region	Capital	Borders	Population	Area
1	China	Beijing	16 countries	≈1.40 billion	≈9.71 million km²
2	Russia	Moscow	14 countries	≈146.0 million	≈17.10 million km²
3	Brazil	Brasília	10 countries	≈214.2 million	≈8.52 million km²
4	DR Congo	Kinshasa	9 countries	≈116.5 million	≈2.34 million km²
5	Germany	Berlin	9 countries	≈83.3 million	357,114 km²
6	Austria	Vienna	8 countries	≈9.2 million	83,871 km²
7	France	Paris	8 countries	≈69.1 million	551,695 km²
8	Serbia	Belgrade	8 countries	≈6.5 million	88,361 km²
9	Turkey	Ankara	8 countries	≈86.1 million	783,562 km²
10	Tanzania	Dodoma	8 countries	≈70.0 million	945,087 km²
11	Zambia	Lusaka	8 countries	≈23.0 million	752,612 km²
12	Algeria	Algiers	7 countries	47.4 million	≈2.38 million km²
13	Hungary	Budapest	7 countries	≈9.5 million	93,028 km²
14	Iran	Tehran	7 countries	≈87.1 million	≈1.65 million km²
15	Mali	Bamako	7 countries	≈23.9 million	≈1.24 million km²
16	Niger	Niamey	7 countries	≈27.5 million	≈1.27 million km²
17	Poland	Warsaw	7 countries	≈37.2 million	312,679 km²
18	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	7 countries	≈35.3 million	≈2.15 million km²
19	Sudan	Khartoum	7 countries	≈53.3 million	≈1.89 million km²
20	Ukraine	Kyiv	7 countries	28.7 million	603,500 km²
21	Afghanistan	Kabul	6 countries	≈43.8 million	652,230 km²
22	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	6 countries	≈22.5 million	272,967 km²
23	Central African Republic	Bangui	6 countries	≈5.5 million	622,984 km²
24	Cameroon	Yaoundé	6 countries	≈29.4 million	475,442 km²
25	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	6 countries	≈111.7 million	≈1.10 million km²
26	Guinea	Conakry	6 countries	≈17.5 million	245,857 km²
27	India	New Delhi	6 countries	≈1.43 billion	≈3.29 million km²
28	Iraq	Baghdad	6 countries	≈46.1 million	438,317 km²
29	Italy	Rome	6 countries	≈58.9 million	301,336 km²
30	Libya	Tripoli	6 countries	≈7.5 million	≈1.76 million km²
31	Mozambique	Maputo	6 countries	≈35.0 million	801,590 km²
32	South Sudan	Juba	6 countries	≈12.7 million	619,745 km²
33	Chad	N'Djamena	6 countries	≈20.0 million	≈1.28 million km²
34	South Africa	Pretoria	6 countries	≈63.0 million	≈1.22 million km²
35	Argentina	Buenos Aires	5 countries	≈46.5 million	≈2.78 million km²
36	Azerbaijan	Baku	5 countries	≈10.3 million	86,600 km²
37	Bulgaria	Sofia	5 countries	≈6.4 million	110,879 km²
38	Bolivia	Sucre	5 countries	≈11.4 million	≈1.10 million km²
39	Belarus	Minsk	5 countries	≈9.1 million	207,600 km²
40	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	5 countries	≈6.3 million	342,000 km²
41	Switzerland	Bern	5 countries	≈9.2 million	41,284 km²
42	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	5 countries	≈33.3 million	322,463 km²
43	Colombia	Bogotá	5 countries	≈53.4 million	≈1.14 million km²
44	Spain	Madrid	5 countries	≈49.8 million	505,992 km²
45	Croatia	Zagreb	5 countries	≈3.9 million	56,594 km²
46	Israel	Jerusalem	5 countries	≈10.3 million	20,770 km²
47	Jordan	Amman	5 countries	≈11.9 million	89,342 km²
48	Kenya	Nairobi	5 countries	≈54.2 million	580,367 km²
49	Kazakhstan	Astana	5 countries	≈20.6 million	≈2.72 million km²
50	Laos	Vientiane	5 countries	≈7.7 million	236,800 km²
51	Montenegro	Podgorica	5 countries	622,902	13,812 km²
52	North Macedonia	Skopje	5 countries	≈1.8 million	25,713 km²
53	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	5 countries	≈51.4 million	676,578 km²
54	Peru	Lima	5 countries	≈34.2 million	≈1.29 million km²
55	Romania	Bucharest	5 countries	≈19.0 million	238,391 km²
56	Slovakia	Bratislava	5 countries	≈5.4 million	49,037 km²
57	Senegal	Dakar	5 countries	≈19.6 million	196,722 km²
58	Syria	Damascus	5 countries	≈26.5 million	185,180 km²
59	Uganda	Kampala	5 countries	≈45.9 million	241,550 km²
60	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	5 countries	≈39.0 million	447,400 km²
61	Albania	Tirana	4 countries	≈2.3 million	28,748 km²
62	Armenia	Yerevan	4 countries	≈3.1 million	29,743 km²
63	Angola	Luanda	4 countries	≈38.8 million	≈1.25 million km²
64	Belgium	Brussels	4 countries	≈11.9 million	30,528 km²
65	Benin	Porto-Novo	4 countries	≈13.6 million	112,622 km²
66	Botswana	Gaborone	4 countries	≈2.5 million	582,000 km²
67	Czechia	Prague	4 countries	≈10.9 million	78,865 km²
68	Egypt	Cairo	4 countries	≈108.6 million	≈1.00 million km²
69	Georgia	Tbilisi	4 countries	≈3.7 million	69,700 km²
70	Greece	Athens	4 countries	≈10.4 million	131,990 km²
71	Guatemala	Guatemala City	4 countries	≈18.4 million	108,889 km²
72	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	4 countries	≈7.4 million	199,951 km²
73	Lithuania	Vilnius	4 countries	≈2.9 million	65,300 km²
74	Latvia	Riga	4 countries	≈1.8 million	64,559 km²
75	Mauritania	Nouakchott	4 countries	≈4.9 million	≈1.03 million km²
76	Namibia	Windhoek	4 countries	≈3.0 million	825,615 km²
77	Nigeria	Abuja	4 countries	223.8 million	923,768 km²
78	Pakistan	Islamabad	4 countries	≈241.5 million	881,912 km²
79	Rwanda	Kigali	4 countries	≈14.4 million	26,338 km²
80	Slovenia	Ljubljana	4 countries	≈2.1 million	20,273 km²
81	Thailand	Bangkok	4 countries	≈70.3 million	513,120 km²
82	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	4 countries	≈10.7 million	143,100 km²
83	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	4 countries	≈7.1 million	488,100 km²
84	Kosovo	Pristina	4 countries	≈1.6 million	10,908 km²
85	Zimbabwe	Harare	4 countries	≈16.2 million	390,757 km²
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	3 countries	≈3.4 million	51,209 km²
87	Burundi	Gitega	3 countries	≈12.3 million	27,834 km²
88	Chile	Santiago	3 countries	≈20.2 million	756,102 km²
89	Djibouti	Djibouti	3 countries	≈1.1 million	23,200 km²
90	Western Sahara	El Aaiún	3 countries	510,713	266,000 km²
91	Eritrea	Asmara	3 countries	≈3.7 million	117,600 km²
92	Finland	Helsinki	3 countries	≈5.7 million	338,424 km²
93	Gabon	Libreville	3 countries	≈2.5 million	267,668 km²
94	Ghana	Accra	3 countries	≈34.4 million	238,533 km²
95	Guyana	Georgetown	3 countries	956,044	214,969 km²
96	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	3 countries	≈10.2 million	112,492 km²
97	Indonesia	Jakarta	3 countries	≈288.3 million	≈1.90 million km²
98	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	3 countries	≈17.8 million	181,035 km²
99	North Korea	Pyongyang	3 countries	≈25.9 million	120,538 km²
100	Liberia	Monrovia	3 countries	≈5.2 million	111,369 km²
101	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	3 countries	690,959	2,586 km²
102	Morocco	Rabat	3 countries	≈37.3 million	446,550 km²
103	Malawi	Lilongwe	3 countries	≈21.2 million	118,484 km²
104	Mexico	Mexico City	3 countries	≈131.2 million	≈1.96 million km²
105	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	3 countries	≈34.4 million	330,803 km²
106	Norway	Oslo	3 countries	≈5.6 million	323,802 km²
107	Oman	Muscat	3 countries	≈5.4 million	309,500 km²
108	Palestine	Ramallah	3 countries	≈5.6 million	6,220 km²
109	Paraguay	Asunción	3 countries	≈6.1 million	406,752 km²
110	Somalia	Mogadishu	3 countries	≈20.3 million	637,657 km²
111	Suriname	Paramaribo	3 countries	616,500	163,820 km²
112	Togo	Lomé	3 countries	≈8.1 million	56,785 km²
113	Venezuela	Caracas	3 countries	≈28.6 million	916,445 km²
114	Vietnam	Hanoi	3 countries	102.3 million	331,212 km²
115	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	2 countries	90,105	468 km²
116	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	2 countries	≈11.0 million	83,600 km²
117	Bangladesh	Dhaka	2 countries	≈169.8 million	147,570 km²
118	Bhutan	Thimphu	2 countries	790,718	38,394 km²
119	Belize	Belmopan	2 countries	418,982	22,966 km²
120	Costa Rica	San José	2 countries	≈5.2 million	51,100 km²
121	Ecuador	Quito	2 countries	≈18.1 million	276,841 km²
122	Estonia	Tallinn	2 countries	≈1.4 million	45,227 km²
123	French Guiana	Cayenne	2 countries	254,541	83,534 km²
124	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	2 countries	≈1.8 million	28,051 km²
125	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	2 countries	≈1.9 million	36,125 km²
126	Kuwait	Kuwait City	2 countries	≈4.9 million	17,818 km²
127	Lebanon	Beirut	2 countries	≈5.9 million	10,452 km²
128	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	2 countries	41,237	160 km²
129	Moldova	Chișinău	2 countries	≈2.4 million	33,846 km²
130	Mongolia	Ulan Bator	2 countries	≈3.6 million	≈1.56 million km²
131	Nicaragua	Managua	2 countries	≈6.9 million	130,373 km²
132	Netherlands	Amsterdam	2 countries	≈18.2 million	41,850 km²
133	Nepal	Kathmandu	2 countries	≈30.0 million	147,181 km²
134	Panama	Panama City	2 countries	≈4.1 million	75,417 km²
135	Sweden	Stockholm	2 countries	≈10.6 million	450,295 km²
136	Sierra Leone	Freetown	2 countries	≈8.5 million	71,740 km²
137	El Salvador	San Salvador	2 countries	≈6.0 million	21,041 km²
138	Eswatini	Mbabane	2 countries	≈1.2 million	17,364 km²
139	Tunisia	Tunis	2 countries	≈12.0 million	163,610 km²
140	United States	Washington, D.C.	2 countries	≈341.8 million	≈9.37 million km²
141	Uruguay	Montevideo	2 countries	≈3.5 million	181,034 km²
142	Yemen	Sana'a	2 countries	≈32.7 million	527,968 km²
143	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	1 country	458,600	5,765 km²
144	Canada	Ottawa	1 country	≈41.8 million	≈9.98 million km²
145	Denmark	Copenhagen	1 country	≈6.0 million	43,094 km²
146	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	1 country	≈11.5 million	48,671 km²
147	United Kingdom	London	1 country	≈66.9 million	242,900 km²
148	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1 country	38,196	6 km²
149	Gambia	Banjul	1 country	≈2.4 million	10,689 km²
150	Hong Kong	City of Victoria	1 country	≈7.5 million	1,104 km²
151	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	1 country	≈11.9 million	27,750 km²
152	Ireland	Dublin	1 country	≈5.5 million	70,273 km²
153	South Korea	Seoul	1 country	≈51.1 million	100,210 km²
154	Lesotho	Maseru	1 country	≈2.1 million	30,355 km²
155	Monaco	Monaco	1 country	38,857	2.02 km²
156	Saint Martin	Marigot	1 country	38,659	53 km²
157	Macau	None	1 country	686,500	30 km²
158	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	1 country	≈11.8 million	462,840 km²
159	Portugal	Lisbon	1 country	≈11.4 million	92,090 km²
160	Qatar	Doha	1 country	≈3.4 million	11,586 km²
161	San Marino	City of San Marino	1 country	34,172	61 km²
162	Sint Maarten	Philipsburg	1 country	58,477	34 km²
163	Timor-Leste	Dili	1 country	≈1.4 million	14,874 km²
164	Vatican City	Vatican City	1 country	882	0.44 km²

This list was last updated on October 8, 2026. Includes overseas territories and other regions as well as independent countries. Population and area are rounded in the table; the country pages show the exact figures.