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MALI (1D: Landlocked West African country) As I have previously written, 16 of Africa's 55 countries are landlocked. Located in West Africa, MALI is one of those 16 landlocked African nations.
Lesotho is the southernmost landlocked country in the world. It is the largest of the world's three independent states completely surrounded by the territory of another country , with Vatican City and San Marino being the other two.
Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, Kyrgyzstan is the furthest landlocked country from any ocean, while Ethiopia is the world's most populous landlocked country. [1] [2]
the three countries forming a landlocked true enclave, surrounded by a larger country: San Marino and Vatican City (within Italy) and Lesotho (within South Africa).
Burundi is one of the few countries in Africa, along with its neighbour Rwanda among others (such as Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatini), to be a direct territorial continuation of a pre-colonial era African state. The early history of Burundi, and especially the role and nature of the country's three dominant ethnic groups, the Twa, Hutu and ...
Ethiopia, [c] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest.
Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the northeast.
Burkina Faso [a] is a landlocked country in West Africa, [6] bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km 2 (105,878 sq mi). In 2021, the country had an estimated population of approximately 23,674,480. [14]