The Roundest & Squarest Countries

The continent of Africa contains both the world's near circular province in addition to the world's near rectangular country. The roundest province inwards the populace is Sierra Leone. Arab Republic of Egypt is the near rectangular.

Back inwards 2016 David Barry worked out the near rectangular shaped countries inwards the world. In Rectangular Countries David wrote an algorithm to honor the optimum rectangles inwards a listing of shapes. He thus applied the algorithm to all the province borders inwards the world, using the province shapefiles from Natural Earth.

He discovered that Arab Republic of Egypt is the near rectangular shaped country. The Vatican in addition to Sint Maarten came instant in addition to third. Using his algorithm the Republic of the Maldives was the to the lowest degree rectangular province inwards the whole world. David's Rectangular Countries lists all the world's countries inwards their gild of rectangular-ness.

Gonzalo Ciruelos has at 1 time carried out a really like analysis of province shapes to honor the world's roundest countries. Like David he has listed all the world's countries, merely inwards this representative inwards their gild of roundness. According to What is the Roundest Country? Sierra Leaone is the world's roundest country. Republic of Nauru in addition to Republic of Zimbabwe are the instant in addition to 3rd near circular countries. The Republic of the Marshall Islands is the to the lowest degree circular country.