Nepal vs Croatia quiz: can you guess which country is bigger, and by how much? 5 numbers

Five quick questions comparing Nepal and Croatia on size, people and mountains, with the answers.

Published 2026-10-23 · Source checked 2026-10-22

You live in Croatia, but how well do you know it next to home? Try guessing before you read each answer. Five quick questions, Nepal against Croatia.

1. Which country is bigger? Nepal, by far. Nepal covers about 147,000 km², Croatia about 56,600 km². Nepal is roughly 2.6 times larger.

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2. Which has more people? Nepal has about 31 million people; Croatia has nearly 3.9 million. That is eight times more people in Nepal, so a Croatian town can feel very quiet compared with Kathmandu.

3. How high is the highest point? Mount Everest is about 8,849 m. Croatia's highest peak, Dinara (Sinjal), is 1,831 m. Everest is nearly five times higher.

4. Which has a sea? Croatia. Nepal has no coast at all. Croatia has more than a thousand islands and islets, and 48 of them have people living on them all year.

5. Which has more neighbours? Croatia borders Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, and has a sea border with Italy. Nepal is squeezed between just two giants, China (Tibet) and India.

What to do: share this with a friend and ask them to guess before they open it. How many did you get right out of 5? Write your score in the comments on our Facebook page, and tell us which Croatian place feels most like home. Also see our 10 things Croatia gave the world: 10 things Croatia gave the world.

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