Sierra Leone is the roundest terra firma inwards the world. The nigh rectangular terra firma is Egypt.
Forget the battle betwixt Clinton & Trump. The biggest online fence over the terminal few weeks has been over which are the nigh rectangular in addition to circular countries.
The contestation started before this calendar month when David Barry posted his query into The Rectangularness of Countries. Barry used the shapefile information from Natural basis to break which country's boundaries were the nigh rectangular using a 'simple algorithm'. His results advise that Arab Republic of Egypt is the nigh rectangular country, closely followed past times the Vatican.
Gonzalo Ciruelos was inspired plenty past times Barry's run to endeavor to break the nigh circular countries inwards the world. In What is the Roundest Country? Ciruelos likewise used Natural Earth's shapefile data. He institute that Sierra Leone is the roundest country. With Nauru coming inwards a closed second.
Now all nosotros ask to know is 'Which is the nigh triangular terra firma inwards the world?'
