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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "Doubly-landlocked countries" (fwd)
 
I have to agree with the respondent who suggested that this term really
has meaning for quizzes.  The borders Tajijistan and Kirghizstan share
with China are farther from the sea than the borders with Afghanistan are!
 
As for Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, that some have proposed.  They share
borders with Russia, so they would have theoretical access to the Black
Sea or the Arctic Ocean.  Pacific Ocean is farther away through Russia
than it would be through several borders to the Indian Ocean.
 
The point is that however many borders removed from an open sea a country
is, if it does not have such a frontier it depends upon the good will of
neighbors to fly over or traverse its neighbors to reach the sea.
Distance can be as great a barrier as multiple borders.  And a short
distance if it includes the Pamirs, Himalayas and Karakorum mountains
might be the greatest barrier of all.
 
 
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
 
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> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:28:47 MST7MDT
> From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "Doubly-landlocked countries" (fwd)
>
> People are all guessing correctly, that Liechtenstein was the other.
> One response suggests two more:
> >
> > By the definition suggested below, I come up with three other 'doubly
> > landlocked' countries:  two neighbors of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and
> > Kirghizstan, and in Europe, Liechtenstein.
> >
> Problem: the Tajik and Kirghiz republics do share a border with
> China.  Still, it's a long way to the sea!
>
> --Ken Rockwell
>
 
 
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International Documents and Maps Librarian
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA