List of countries bordering on two or more oceans

World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries

This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic.[1] Countries which border on multiple oceans because of discontiguous regions are excluded here but included in the list of transcontinental countries.[2] Countries bordering on just one of the five oceans are not included, no matter how many of its marginal seas they touch.[3]

  1. ^ "How many oceans are there?". National Ocean Service. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  2. ^ For example, France is not included because its overseas departments are not contiguous with Metropolitan France. In total France would have bordered on three or four oceans.
  3. ^ For example, India is not included. It borders on the Indian Ocean including the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian and Andaman Seas, which would all be in the Indian Ocean column of the table.

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