The continent of Africa contains both the world's roughly circular province together with the world's roughly rectangular country. The roundest province inward the public is Sierra Leone. Arab Republic of Egypt is the roughly rectangular.
Back inward 2016 David Barry worked out the roughly rectangular shaped countries inward the world. In Rectangular Countries David wrote an algorithm to uncovering the optimum rectangles inward a listing of shapes. He together with then applied the algorithm to all the province borders inward the world, using the province shapefiles from Natural Earth.
He discovered that Arab Republic of Egypt is the roughly rectangular shaped country. The Vatican together with Sint Maarten came instant together with third. Using his algorithm the Republic of the Maldives was the to the lowest degree rectangular province inward the whole world. David's Rectangular Countries lists all the world's countries inward their fellowship of rectangular-ness.
Gonzalo Ciruelos has at i time carried out a real like analysis of province shapes to uncovering the world's roundest countries. Like David he has listed all the world's countries, only inward this illustration inward their fellowship of roundness. According to What is the Roundest Country? Sierra Leaone is the world's roundest country. Republic of Nauru together with Republic of Zimbabwe are the instant together with tertiary roughly circular countries. The Republic of the Marshall Islands is the to the lowest degree circular country.
