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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Longest Suspension Bridge Spans, List of Longest Bridges in the World, List of Largest Cable-Stayed Bridges, List of the Largest Arch Bridges, List of Rivers by Length, List of Long Tunnels by Type, List of Countries by Length of Coastline, List of Longest Tunnels in the World, List of Longest Continuous Truss Bridge Spans, List of Longest Cantilever Bridges, List of Motor Yachts by Length, List of Rail Tunnels in India by Length. Excerpt: An example of the coastline paradox . The coastline of Britain is measured using Fractal Unit = 200 km, then the length of the coastline = 2400 km (approx.) Unit = 50 km, length = 3400 km (1000 km more) This is a list of countries by length of coastline , in kilometers, based on data for the year 2008 by the CIA World Factbook . A coastline of zero indicates that the country is landlocked . The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal , being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken). The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement), the longer the coastline will be. This 'magnifying' effect is greater for convoluted coastlines than for relatively smooth ones. For example, as seen on satellite image websites, the length of Canada's very convoluted coastline at a scale interval of 500 km is only about 20,000 km, less than a tenth of the value given in the table. On the other hand, Australia's coastline at 500 km intervals is about 12,500 km, around half the value in the table. The coast/area ratio measures how many meters of coastline correspond to every square kilometer of land area. The ratio illustrates the ease of accessibility to the ...