Hannah GraceHow long is the external border of the #Schengen area?
Plus points for guessing the percentage of land vs sea border in the comments.
| 500 000 km | |
| 100 000 km | |
| 50 000 km | |
| don’t know |
Poll ends at .
Albert CardonaMeasuring borders is hard. I recall the anecdote that Portugal has about twice as much border with Spain than Spain has with Portugal. Boils down to granularity of measurement. The archetypical example is measuring the length of a beach: roughly, or by counting the contour of every grain of sand by the water? The latter can be much, much longer than the former.
@albertcardona I honestly didn't consider this fact at all. You're right about the granularity. I took the number from a Commission brochure without thinking.
Fab Ataqe@hpod16 @albertcardona only counting land borders should be fine though. Usually it's a couple of landmarks with straight lines in between or fairly regular rivers.
Not as easy in Europe as in Canada/US, but doable :D
Not as easy in Europe as in Canada/US, but doable :D