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Distinct Land Borders: Refers to the number of separate geographic boundaries a country shares with its neighbors. A single country may have multiple distinct land borders with the same neighbour (e.g., due to enclaves, exclaves, or disconnected regions). Distinct Land Neighbours: Refers to the number of unique countries a nation borders via land.
This is a list of countries and territories by land and maritime borders. For each country or territory, the number and identity of other countries and territories that neighbor it are listed. Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination.
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered.
The cities are connected by road. Maseru Lesotho South Africa: Mantsopa Local Municipality: The border runs through the Caledon River. The South African side of the border is rural. There are road and rail links across the border. Monaco Monaco France: Alpes-Maritimes (department) Microstate and city-state.
The Republic of Ireland borders the United Kingdom's Northern Ireland region on the island of Ireland. Monaco France: 4.4 2.7 Papua New Guinea Indonesia: 820 510 On the island of New Guinea Portugal Spain: 1,214 754 Qatar Saudi Arabia: 60 37 The planned Qatar–Bahrain Causeway would connect Qatar to Bahrain. South Korea North Korea: 238 148
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 dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Transcontinental countries in Europe and Africa, classified as Southern European countries by the United Nations Statistics Division: Italy (Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands), Malta, Portugal (Madeira [including the Savage Islands]), and Spain (Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Alboran Island, and Spain's plazas de soberanía).