Which Countries are Landlocked?

Lesotho is landlocked and is surrounded entirely by only one other country - South Africa. Are there other such landlocked countries - that is countries whose entire border is with just one country?

@anon939087: I saw your comment and looked on a map to make sure I knew what I was talking about. A landlocked country does not have a coastline. That means it does not have an ocean bordering it directly. You can eventually get to the ocean by traveling enough rivers, but there is no direct ocean access, like Italy has, for instance, or France. The Aral Sea is really a lake, so it doesn't count as coastline.

Missouri in the U.S. is a landlocked state. Just because the Mississippi River borders it and the Mississippi eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico doesn't mean Missouri isn't landlocked.

So yes, according to the maps, Uzbekistan is landlocked.

If Uzbekistan is bordered by the Aral sea, and the Aral sea is connected to the Black Sea, and the Black Sea is connected to the Mediterranean sea, then not only is Uzbekistan not double landlocked, it isn't even landlocked.

So those who say it is landlocked are simply wrong.

South Sudan became a landlocked country in 2011.

Eventually, there is probably going to be a vast transit system from China, through Central Asia into Europe. Landlocked developing countries will be better off after that.

As far as I know, every country imposes a tariff on goods that enter its borders. So a landlocked country that has goods imported through another country would have to pay some kind of tariff or fee to that country unless they have a non-tariff agreement.

But I'm not sure if this makes trade more costly for landlocked countries than for countries that are not landlocked. That might be the case. Does anyone else have input on this?

Does the fact that a landlocked country relies on neighboring countries to be able to import goods, make trade more expensive for them?

why have you become so angry at the West Bank? Isn't it an individual territory that bears its own identity of thousands of years? Come on guys. Recognize us.

it seems that if a country is bordered by an inland sea it can still be considered landlocked, as long as it does not have access to the major oceans or waterways.

In that case, isn't the term "landlocked" a misnomer? Semantically, landlocked should strictly be defined as locked in on all sides by land. Could someone please explain to me why that is not the case?

At most previous comments: You must accept the facts of geography and the rules instituted by geographers and the international society. Countries that do not have a coastline on an ocean or on major waterway which has the size of a waterway of a strait or larger (not a river) as a connection to an ocean are landlocked, Vatican City is a country, and Tibet is a part of China. Please consider what you are saying and research it before jumping to conclusions

Comment 14 (ag47) - you're missing something. Notice the editor's reply to the other people who asked the same thing.

Regrettable the list includes "West Bank," which is not a country. Even more regrettable that the list omits Tibet.

Regarding comment 5, which says in part:

"1) Lichtenstein as the world's only double land locked country.

2) Mongolia is the world's only landlocked country. "

If no. 2 is true, then there can't be any double land locked countries outside the borders of Mongolia. Lichtenstein is not inside Mongolia.

The word landlocked means (or at least ought to mean) "locked in on all sides by land". How are countries like Kazakhstan which are surrounded at least for some parts of their borders by lakes or seas (it is irrelevant really if the lakes or seas themselves are inland) considered landlocked?

Or am I missing something here?

which continent has larger coastline? either europe or africa? how?

What do you mean by double landlocked? Is that like the ones which border the country don't have coastlines either?

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Bolivia is not landlocked, it has a lake on the western border. Please change this it's inaccurate. Thank you.

How is Armenia considered a European country? Geographically speaking it's a bit overrated.

The above says that Lichtenstein and Uzbekistan are the world's only double land locked countries and that Kazakhstan is the world's largest land locked country.

Does the Caspian Sea not count as a sea? If so, then Kazakhstan is not land locked and Uzbekistan is not double land locked. This would leave

1) Lichtenstein as the world's only double land locked country.

2) Mongolia is the world's only landlocked country.

About the Western Bank: This list covers countries and areas. According to the World CIA Factbook, the source for this data, while the West Bank is not recognized as an independent country, it is generally referred to as an entity in some ways separate from Israel. The West Bank is therefore included in this list as a landlocked "area."

This list now shows 44 landlocked countries and areas. 42 of the names refer to recognized countries, while two, the West Bank and Vatican City, fall into the "area" category. The World CIA Factbook includes "a wide variety of dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, uninhabited islands, and other entities in addition to the traditional countries or independent states" to create this list of landlocked countries or areas.

OK, so the CIA Factobook says 43 countries and areas. What does "areas" mean? The list on this site is only 41 countries. What are the other 2 areas?

How can the western bank be called a country?