A Country With Many Neighbors
Some countries have only one or two neighbors, and a few have none at all. But which country has the most? The answer is China, which shares a land border with 14 different nations. Interestingly, China is not alone at the very top: Russia also borders 14 countries, so the two are actually tied for first place. Both stand far ahead of every other country on Earth.
Why These Two Countries
It is no accident that China and Russia lead this list. They are two of the largest countries in the world by area, and Russia is the largest of all. A country with an enormous size and a very long border naturally has more room to touch many other nations. Both China and Russia are vast, sprawling across huge stretches of the Asian continent, so their borders run for tens of thousands of kilometers and meet many different countries along the way.
China's 14 Neighbors
China's land border touches 14 countries. They include large nations such as India and Russia, mountainous neighbors like Nepal and Bhutan along the Himalayas, the Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan, and southeastern neighbors like Vietnam and Myanmar. This wide range of neighbors means China borders an enormous variety of landscapes, cultures, and climates, from frozen north to tropical south.
Russia's 14 Neighbors
Russia matches China with exactly 14 neighboring countries. Russia's neighbors stretch from Norway and Finland in the northwest, through countries like Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, and Ukraine, down to Georgia and Azerbaijan, and across to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, and North Korea in the east. Because Russia spans such a vast distance across two continents, its long border naturally meets a great many different nations.
A Note on Counting Borders
Counting a country's neighbors is usually straightforward, but it can depend on exactly which territories are counted as separate, independent countries. Using the standard, widely accepted count of sovereign nations, China and Russia each reach the same total of 14, sharing the world record. No other country comes close to matching them.
Source
This article was written using information from Wikipedia.