Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a huge country, the eleventh largest in the world. So it's not surprising that Zaire has one of the longest land borders, with a total of 9,893 kilometres. That's not much less than the total U.S. land border of 11,991 kilometers long.
But it is a surprise that this great nation has one of the shortest coastlines of any other country that has an outlet to the sea. On a map, it might appear that Zaire has no coastline, with no outlet in the ocean.
But Zaire has a narrow strip of land on the north bank of the Congo River that reaches the Atlantic Ocean. The total length of this coast of Zaire is only 37 kilometers.
Apart from the small island nations and the small nation of Monaco in Europe, the only nation with a coastline, which is not enclosed by other nations, with a smaller coastline than Zaire is Jordan, which has a coastline of only 25 kilometers over the Gulf of Aqaba.
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