33% of players find Brunei on their first tap of a blank globe, which makes it the 6th hardest country to place of the 166 in the game. It is in South-Eastern Asia, sharing its only land border with Malaysia, and its capital is Bandar Seri Begawan.
Brunei has exactly one land neighbour: Malaysia, which accounts for its entire land border.
| Neighbour | Share of land border | Can players find it? |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 100% | 72% find it |
Shares are measured from Natural Earth 1:50m country outlines, so treat them as proportions rather than surveyed distances. The find rates come from our own play data.
33% of players put their first tap on Brunei when the game asks for it. The median player hovers for 10 seconds before daring a guess.
First guesses land an average of 479 km to the west of where Brunei really is. The world's mental map has it drifting.
The most common mix-up is Malaysia. When the game asks for Brunei, that is where the wrong taps go.
Those numbers come from over a quarter of a million real guesses in Borderline, a daily game where everyone gets the same five countries to find on a 3D globe.
Find today's five countriesfree, no signup, ~2 minutesBrunei is in South-Eastern Asia, part of Asia. Its capital is Bandar Seri Begawan, and it shares a land border with Malaysia.
Just one: Malaysia, which surrounds Brunei's entire land boundary.
No. Brunei has a coastline as well as 1 land border.
Bandar Seri Begawan.
33% of players put their first tap inside Brunei when asked to find it on a blank globe, and the median player waits 10 seconds before committing. The most common wrong answer is Malaysia. That puts it among the countries most people genuinely cannot place.
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