Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Carlos Thompson scripsit:

> > Extra points:  which state (or states) is/are bordered by the greatest
> > number of other states?
>
> China?
It's a close race.  Russia borders on Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania (via Kaliningrad), Poland (via Kaliningrad), Belarus, Ukraine,
Georgia, Azerbaycan, Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia, and is separated
by only a few kilometers of water from Japan (in the Kuriles) and the
U.S. (the Diomedes in the Aleutian chain).

China borders on North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos,
and Vietnam.  If you call Taiwan a country, the Taiwanese island of Quemoy is
also only a few km from China.

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