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🚨 Here we go! 🚨 The question: What is the longest chain of countries, such that each country shares a land border with and has a shorter name than the previous country?

Ex: Luxembourg 🇱🇺 (10 chars) Belgium 🇧🇪 (7) France 🇫🇷 (6) Spain 🇪🇸 (5).

- you must include the hashtag and emoji flags

- spaces in the name count as a char. Ex: “South Africa” (12)

- “The “ at start of the name does not count. Ex: “Netherlands” (11) not “The Netherlands” (15)

@opencage do the country names have to be in English? Or can we use the country name in their own language(s)?

@atlefren has to be in English, otherwise how do we deal with languages like Arabic, etc?

@opencage fair enough for this purpose, but I hope your geocoder handles native names as well? ;)

OpenCage 👉🌍

@atlefren oh my god!! that is genius. We could support other languages! this is going to be huge...