Which Are The Squarest & Roundest Countries?

Sierra Leone is the roundest province inward the world. The unopen to rectangular province is Egypt.

Forget the battle betwixt Clinton & Trump. The biggest online ground over the final few weeks has been over which are the unopen to rectangular together with circular countries.

The contestation started before this calendar month when David Barry posted his query into The Rectangularness of Countries. Barry used the shapefile information from Natural public to divulge which country's boundaries were the unopen to rectangular using a 'simple algorithm'. His results propose that Arab Republic of Egypt is the unopen to rectangular country, closely followed past times the Vatican.

Gonzalo Ciruelos was inspired plenty past times Barry's operate to endeavor to divulge the unopen to circular countries inward the world. In What is the Roundest Country? Ciruelos likewise used Natural Earth's shapefile data. He constitute that Sierra Leone is the roundest country. With Nauru coming inward a unopen second.

Now all nosotros ask to know is 'Which is the unopen to triangular province inward the world?'