Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at 244,000 km!

August 18, 2016

Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world at 244,000 km!

Canada has by far the longest coastline of any country in the world at roughly 244,000 km (151,600 miles). Indonesia is a distant second at 60,000 km. Seventy-five percent of Canada's coastline is on the Arctic ocean, with the remainder on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.


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