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The Atlantic Ocean excluding its Arctic and Antarctic regions. List of states and dependent territories with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean — including the North, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas — (dependent territories italicized with the sovereign state bracketed).
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]
Arctic Ocean / Atlantic Ocean / Pacific Ocean / Baffin Bay / Beaufort Sea / Bering Sea / Caribbean Sea / Chukchi Sea / Greenland Sea / Gulf of Mexico / Hudson Bay / Labrador Sea Antarctica Eastern / Southern / Western
The Ural River bridges in Atyrau and Orenburg are even labeled with permanent monuments carved with the word "Europe" on one side, "Asia" on the other. [ 102 ] Because the Kazakhs are an Asian people, after the collapse of the USSR , the option according to which the border of Europe runs from the Caspian Sea along the state border between ...
Trans-Atlantic trade also resulted in increasing urbanization: in European countries facing the Atlantic, urbanization grew from 8% in 1300, 10.1% in 1500, to 24.5% in 1850; in other European countries from 10% in 1300, 11.4% in 1500, to 17% in 1850. Likewise, GDP doubled in Atlantic countries but rose by only 30% in the rest of Europe.
The second number is the total number of distinct countries or territories that the country or territory borders. In this instance, if the country or territory shares two or more maritime boundaries with the same country or territory and the boundaries are unconnected, the boundaries are only counted once.
The waters around Asia are subjected to the same impacts as elsewhere, such as the increased warming and ocean acidification. [22]: 1465 There are many coral reefs in the region, and they are highly vulnerable to climate change, [22]: 1459 to the point practically all of them will be lost if the warming exceeds 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent ) that is surrounded by water. [ 1 ] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago , as is the case with Indonesia , Japan , and the Philippines —these countries consist of thousands of islands.