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by peterburkimsher 3616 days ago
So, Egypt is both round (20) and rectangular (1)?

Compare: http://pappubahry.com/misc/rectangles/

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There's actually a lot of overlap. See Nauru (2, 10), Sierra Leone (1, 14), Uruguay (9, 13) etc.

It's interesting, I think both of these metrics reward largely the same thing, independent of actual approximate shape, which is a lack of irregularity in their borders and many degrees of symmetry.