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Contiguous transcontinental states are those countries that have one continuous or immediately adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary.More specifically, they contain a portion of their territory on one continent and a portion of their territory on another continent, while having these two portions connected via a natural geological land connection (e.g. Russia) or the ...
Transcontinental country in North America and Oceania, classified as a Northern American country by the United Nations Statistics Division: United States . Transcontinental countries in Oceania and South America, classified as South American countries by the United Nations Statistics Division: Chile (Insular Chile) and Ecuador (Galápagos Islands).
The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent, [1] suitable for automated processing. Format [ edit ]
Russia is a transcontinental country which spans across Asia and Europe. It is the biggest country in the world based on land mass. ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Biggest ...
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
United States dollar United Kingdom: British Overseas Territory: United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands of the United States VIR English: United States Virgin Islands — Virgin Islands of the United States: Charlotte Amalie: 100,091 1,910 km 2 (737 sq mi) United States dollar United States: Unincorporated organized territory of the United ...
The usual line taken to divide Africa from Asia today is at the Isthmus of Suez, the narrowest gap between the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Suez, the route today followed by the Suez Canal. This makes the Sinai Peninsula geographically Asian, and Egypt a transcontinental country. Less than 2% of the Egyptian population live on the Sinai ...
The paragraph about transcontinental countries is unsourced and incorrect. The only possible transcontinental country in North America is Panama, not Trinidad and Tobago. Some sources use the Panama Canal instead of the Isthmus of Panama as the boundary between North America and South America, thus making Panama a transcontinental country.