A landlocked country is one that has no coastline. There are 42 landlocked countries in the world.

A landlocked sea is a sea that is either not at all or not directly connected to the oceans. The Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea are sometimes considered to be lakes. If that is taken to be true, 44 percent of the total amount of water in the world's lakes forms the Caspian Sea. Sunset at sea Look up Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Look up maritime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... [[Image:http://www. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a LAKE MY HOMIE DOGG of Eurasia between Asia and Europe. ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ...

A sea that is almost landlocked is connected to the oceans by a strait only, such as the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. This may be of strategic importance, with one or two countries controlling the entrance, and/or be relevant for tides and freshwater content. Simplified diagram A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. ... Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ... Map of the Black Sea. ... The tide is the cyclic rising and falling of Earths ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth. ... For the village on the Isle of Wight, see Freshwater, Isle of Wight. ...

Significance of a country being landlocked

Historically, being landlocked was regarded as a disadvantageous position. It cuts the country off from sea resources such as fishing, but more importantly cuts off access to seaborne trade which even today makes up a large percentage of international trade. Around the world, coastal regions tend to be wealthier and more heavily populated than inland ones. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... A fruit stand at a market. ...

Countries thus have made particular efforts to avoid being landlocked. The International Congo Society, which owned the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, was given a thin piece of land bisecting Angola to connect it to the sea by the Conference of Berlin in 1885. The Dubrovnik Republic had once gifted the town of Neum to the Ottoman Empire because it did not want to have a land border with Venice; this small municipality was inherited by Bosnia and Herzegovina for which it now provides limited sea access, splitting the Croatian part of the Adriatic coast in two. After WWI Poland was given the Danzig Corridor to give it an outlet on the sea. The Danube was internationalized so that landlocked Austria and Hungary could have secure access to the sea. For the Cold War conference see Berlin Conference of 1954. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Republic of Dubrovnik, also known as the Republic of Ragusa, was a maritime city-state that was based in the city of Dubrovnik from the 14th century until 1808. ... Shield of Neum Neum is the only seaside town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Söğüt (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanl... WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A Polish map showing the territory known as the Polish Corridor The Polish Corridor was the name given to a strip of territory which was transferred from Germany to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. ... The Danube bend at Visegrád is a popular destination of tourists The Danube (ancient Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ...

Losing access to the sea is often a great blow to nations. The successful separatist movement in Eritrea and the current one in Montenegro are of greater concern to their host countries than they would be otherwise as they control the nations' only coastline. Bolivia lost its coastline to Chile in the War of the Pacific. Still to this day the Bolivian Navy trains in Lake Titicaca for an eventual recovery and, in the 21st century, the selection of the route of gas pipes from Bolivia to the sea fueled popular risings. Hungary also lost its access to the sea as a consequence of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920: although Croatia had a constitutional autonomy within Hungary, the City of Fiume was independent, governed directly as a corpus separatum from Budapest by an appointed governor, as Hungary's only international port between 1779-1813, 1822-1848 and 1868-1918. This article is about the former Yugoslav republic. ... Combatants Republic of Peru Republic of Bolivia Republic of Chile Commanders Juan Buendía Andrés Cáceres Miguel Grau Manuel Baquedano Patricio Lynch Arturo Prat Strength Peru-Bolivian Army Peruvian Navy Army of Chile Chilean Navy The War of the Pacific, sometimes called the Saltpeter War in reference to... The Bolivian Navy does exist even though the country has been landlocked for almost 150 years. ... Tourists aboard a totora boat made of reeds on Lake Titicaca. ... The Bolivian Gas War was a social conflict in Bolivia centering around the exploitation of the countrys vast natural gas reserves. ... The Grand Trianon at Versailles, site of the signing The Treaty of Trianon was an agreement that regulated the situation of the new Hungarian state that replaced the Kingdom of Hungary, part of the former dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy, after World War I. It was signed on June 4, 1920... Rijeka (Fiume in Italian and Hungarian; Rijeka and Fiume both mean river) is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on the Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. ... Nickname: Paris of the East, Pearl of the Danubeor Queen of the Danube Official website: www. ...

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea now gives a landlocked country a right of access to and from the sea, without taxation of traffic through transit states. The United Nations has a programme of action to assist Landlocked Developing Countries, and the current responsible Undersecretary General is Anwarul Karim Chowdhury. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Opened for signature December 10, 1982 in Montego Bay (Jamaica) Entered into force November 16, 1994[1] Conditions for entry into force 60 ratifications Parties 149[2] For maritime law in general see Admiralty law. ... United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Anwarul Karim Chowdhury was a diplomat from Bangladesh who was appointed in 2002 as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. ...

Some countries may have a large coastline, but no readily usable one. For instance Russia's only ports were on the Arctic Ocean and frozen shut much of the year. Gaining control of a warm water port was a major motivator of Russian expansion towards the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Pacific Ocean. A warm water port is a port where the water does not freeze (rendering it unusable) in the winter. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. ... Map of the Black Sea. ...

Similarly, several countries have coastlines on landlocked seas such as the Caspian and the Aral. Since these seas are sometimes considered to be lakes, and since they do not allow access to seaborne trade, countries such as Kazakhstan are still considered to be landlocked. Sunset at sea Look up Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Look up maritime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a LAKE MY HOMIE DOGG of Eurasia between Asia and Europe. ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ... A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ...

An island nation, a country completely surrounded by water, is the opposite of a landlocked one. An island nation is a country that is wholly confined to an island or islands. ...

Landlocked countries

* Each of these countries has a coast on the non-freshwater Caspian Sea Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1357x628, 25 KB) Please see the file description page for further information. ...    Serbia Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area – Total – % water 88. ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a LAKE MY HOMIE DOGG of Eurasia between Asia and Europe. ...

Doubly landlocked countries

A landlocked country which is surrounded entirely by other landlocked countries may be called a "doubly landlocked" country. A person in such a country would have to cross at least two borders to reach a coastline.

There are only two such countries in the world:

• Liechtenstein in (Central Europe)
• Uzbekistan (Central Asia).

However, their landlocked neighbours do have indirect access to the sea, via the Danube river in Liechtenstein's case and via canals from the landlocked but non-freshwater Caspian Sea in the case of Uzbekistan. Regions of Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Danube bend at Visegrád is a popular destination of tourists The Danube (ancient Danuvius) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Caspian Sea viewed from orbit The Caspian Sea is a LAKE MY HOMIE DOGG of Eurasia between Asia and Europe. ...

From 1938 to 1945, no doubly landlocked countries existed; this is because Uzbekistan was part of the Soviet Union and Austria was a part of Nazi Germany, meaning Liechtenstein bordered one country with a coastline. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

Semi-landlocked countries

The following countries are almost landlocked, and their short coastlines measure only a tiny fraction of the length of their land borders. The list below gives the countries where this fraction is less than 5%: Border stone at Passo San Giacomo between Val Formazza in Italy and Val Bedretto in Switzerland Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or subnational administrative divisions. ...

• Democratic Republic of the Congo, 0.3%
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1.4%
• Iraq, 1.6%
• Jordan, 1.6%
• Republic of the Congo, 3.0%
• Togo, 3.3%
• Slovenia, 3.4%
• Belgium, 4.6%

Corridors

A landlocked country may be given access to the sea through a corridor, such as the Polish corridor giving this post-WWI country access to the Baltic Sea. However, one country's corridor may split another country into exclaves, such as East Prussia separated from Germany proper by the same Polish Corridor. The same is true of the sea corridor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lack of a land corridor joining Germany to East Prussia was a pretext for starting WWII. Bolivia lost its corridor to the sea after the War of the Pacific. Look up Corridor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... D is Bs exclave, but is not an enclave. ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Combatants Republic of Peru Republic of Bolivia Republic of Chile Commanders Juan Buendía Andrés Cáceres Miguel Grau Manuel Baquedano Patricio Lynch Arturo Prat Strength Peru-Bolivian Army Peruvian Navy Army of Chile Chilean Navy The War of the Pacific, sometimes called the Saltpeter War in reference to...

Railway missing links

While the railway systems of Europe and North America all interconnect albeit sometimes with incompatible gauges, etc, Africa, South and Central America, Asia and the Middle East generally do not connect very well. This might be called "rail-locked". Kathmandu, for instance, the capital of landlocked Nepal, does not have any railway connection. Kathmandu (Nepali: काठमाडौं) is the capital city of Nepal and it is also the largest city in Nepal. ...

See also

• Enclave
• List of countries by length of coastline
• List of countries that border only one other country