More stats for your next pub quiz.
Estonia’s coastline: It’s extremely long, given the area of the country.
Estonia is nowhere near as big as:
1) Romania
2) Poland
3) Iran
4) Namibia
5) Saudi Arabia or
6) Algeria
but because of its crinkly outline and many islands, it has a ridiculously large coastline.
Some of it freezes over, as well.
You could add South Africa to that list above, too. An area 27x that of Estonia, but a coastline just 74% the length of the Baltic state’s.
And South Africa has a lot of coastline. The whole of the bottom of a continent’s worth.
I’ve seen at least some of it.
It’s worth remembering that while none of those big countries above are surrounded by water, neither is Estonia, with borders with Russia and Latvia, and a long (not countable for these purposes) coastline along Lake Peipus.
What a stat.