What's the highest number of countries whose borders meet at a single point?
What is the maximum number of countries meeting at a single point on earth?
Where is it?
What are the countries?
Best Answer
To some extent, this depends how you define a "country".
For one definition of country, the maximum countries that meet at a single point is 7.
The countries that meet at this single point are :
- Argentina
- Australia
- Chile
- France
- New Zealand
- Norway
- United Kingdom
The point where they all meet? Latitude 90 degrees South - otherwise known as the South Pole! All of the countries have territorial claims to pie-shapes pieces of Antarctica, meeting at (or at least, near) the south pole as a part of the Antarctic Treaty.
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Is there a place where 4 countries meet?
Also known as the \u201cfour corners of Africa,\u201d these four countries meet at the eastern end of the Caprivi Strip \u2013 Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. There are more than 150 tripoints in the world but only ONE international quadripoint. So here I was, sitting in the only place in the world where four countries meet.Is there a point where 5 countries meet?
The summit of Risnjak mountain in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County is a meeting point of five municipalities: \u010cabar, Delnice, Lokve, Bakar and \u010cavle, making it a quintipoint.Is there a place where 3 countries meet?
The Three-Border Region (Drielandenpunt) in Vaals is the place where Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands meet. At a height of 323 m, it is also the highest point of the Netherlands (except for the Caribbean states belonging to the Kingdom of the Netherlands).At what point do most countries meet?
Around the world, there are more than 150 different tripoints\u2014borders where three nations meet\u2014but only one international \u201cquadripoint.\u201d This is a spot in the middle of the Zambezi River, in southern Africa, where Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana all touch.Rnbstylerz \u0026 AREES - WHAT
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Answer 2
I'm not sure how subterranean borders work, but if a country includes the land underground, then every border of every country meets at a point a the center of the Earth.
Answer 3
Apparently the answer is 3 countries, even though there used to be a quadripoint: two tripoints that are now very close where Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe meet at approximately the same place, in Kazungula.
But there are a lot more of tripoints.
Answer 4
As has been established, while three countries meeting in a single point is geometrically required, there are no points on Earth where four countries meet. The closest you can get is looking for a place where four (or more) distinct international borders come together, meaning that if you walked around the point you would cross four (or more) borders during the 360° (while not necessarily being in four different countries).
Such a point exists at the peak of the Sorgschrofen in the Alps. To its North is the Austrian exclave (technically speaking) of Jungholz. To its South is Austria proper; specifically the province (Bezirk) of Reutte in Tyrol (Außerfern region). To its East and West is Germany; specifically the province of Swabia in Bavaria. The border situation can be seen on Openstreetmap.
While only two countries meet here, if you circle the summit starting in the North you will go through Austria, Germany, a different part of Austria, a different bit of Germany and the first bit of Austria before arriving back at your point of origin.
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