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Landlocked Countries Quiz

Name the countries in the world that don't border an ocean.
Area in square kilometers
We consider the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea to be part of the ocean
Quiz by Quizmaster
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Last updated: April 9, 2019
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First submittedAugust 11, 2011
Times taken284,376
Average score75.6%
Rating4.99
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Area
Country
2,724,900
Kazakhstan
1,564,100
Mongolia
1,284,000
Chad
1,267,000
Niger
1,240,192
Mali
1,104,300
Ethiopia
1,098,581
Bolivia
752,612
Zambia
647,500
Afghanistan
622,984
Central African Republic
619,745
South Sudan
582,000
Botswana
488,100
Turkmenistan
447,400
Uzbekistan
406,752
Paraguay
Area
Country
390,757
Zimbabwe
274,222
Burkina Faso
241,038
Uganda
236,800
Laos
207,600
Belarus
199,951
Kyrgyzstan
147,181
Nepal
143,100
Tajikistan
118,484
Malawi
93,028
Hungary
88,361
Serbia
86,600
Azerbaijan
83,871
Austria
78,867
Czech Republic
49,035
Slovakia
Area
Country
41,284
Switzerland
38,394
Bhutan
33,846
Moldova
30,355
Lesotho
29,743
Armenia
27,834
Burundi
26,338
Rwanda
25,713
North Macedonia
17,364
Eswatini
10,908
Kosovo
2586
Luxembourg
468
Andorra
160
Liechtenstein
61
San Marino
0.44
Vatican City
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Level 24
May 11, 2016
DRC???
+7
Level 58
May 20, 2016
It has a coastline of about 40 kilometers, to the north of the mouth of the Congo river.
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Level 61
May 12, 2016
Forgot that Afghanistan was landlocked...
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Level 44
May 12, 2016
Czechia should be accepted for Czech Republic since the name changed
+1
Level 70
May 16, 2016
Missed only Mali, Botswana, and Belarus.
+3
Level 36
Jul 3, 2016
how about jordan? the dead sea????
+4
Level 60
Sep 17, 2021
Not Dead, Red. ;-)
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Level 49
Feb 2, 2024
Aqaba
+3
Level 57
Jul 4, 2016
Quizmaster, I believe you should be able to type in "fyrom" for Macedonia, "car" for Central African Republic and "czechia" for Czech Republic.
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Level 82
Nov 22, 2016
Please don't accept FYROM for Macedonia. This is retarded.
+8
Level 61
Feb 2, 2024
this aged well
+1
Level 41
Jul 22, 2016
I couldn't remember Rwanda damn it
+2
Level 37
Oct 12, 2016
I really enjoy these quizzes. I just wish that more people would just

read and accept the rules without the constant back and forth about

meanings and definitions. Unless something is glaringly wrong, just

LET IT BE, for hemel's sake!

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Level 29
Oct 23, 2016
Kazakhstan has a coast
+1
Level 56
Nov 12, 2016
Got them all except South Sudan, Zimbabwe and Zambia!
+3
Level 54
Nov 12, 2016
cyprus is in asia
+4
Level 75
Oct 26, 2018
Haven't you heard? Lamplighter Don settled it once and for all and moved it to South America. Not sure whether it's now landlocked or not.
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Level 28
Aug 24, 2021
lol
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Level 79
Mar 23, 2022
It's off the coast of Peru.
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Level 17
Dec 10, 2016
100% :42 left
+1
Level 57
Jul 27, 2017
Great quiz!
+1
Level 28
Jul 27, 2017
Damn, first attempt and I got everything except Belarus. Pretty happy otherwise!
+1
Level 37
Aug 23, 2017
How's Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on this
+1
Level 18
Sep 9, 2017
If you don't know B&H has a very small coast, but it a coast so no landlock
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Level 72
Jan 30, 2018
I missed Uganda...

I didnt know da wae...

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Level 81
Mar 11, 2018
What about Andorra?
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Level 81
Mar 12, 2018
It's on there.
+1
Level 20
Mar 20, 2019
You just spelled it wrong.
+1
Level 66
May 24, 2018
can you accept eSwatini for Swaziland?
+1
Level 42
Jun 28, 2018
40/45 Missed the most obvious ones... Niger, CAR, Moldova, Macedonia, Laos
+2
Level 48
Jul 4, 2018
Whoops, forgot Ethiopia
+1
Level 41
Jul 30, 2018
1.33 left happy with that
+1
Level 50
Aug 14, 2018
Why no Georgia?
+4
Level 48
Oct 26, 2018
If you check the map, you can see it has a fairly long coastline on the Black Sea.
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Level 50
Sep 1, 2018
What about Bosnia??
+5
Level 74
Oct 26, 2018
What about looking at a map??
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Level 55
Apr 11, 2022
Bosnia has around 12 miles of coastline, mostly around Neum.
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Level 54
Sep 22, 2018
dammit uganda

(do you no da wae)

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Level 48
Oct 26, 2018
44/45, damn Malawi.
+1
Level 43
Oct 26, 2018
Totally forgot about Laos
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Level 45
Oct 26, 2018
84% so close...
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Level 33
Feb 22, 2019
How can I forget Lesotho.
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Level 66
Apr 8, 2019
i only missed macedonia because all the while, i thought it officially changed its name as north macedonia. but the latter was not accepted as correct. i think this must be corrected.
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Level 34
Aug 27, 2019
Curse you, San Marino, for fooling me by literally having the Italian word for sea in your name...
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Level 66
Feb 11, 2020
It comes from saint Marinus (Marino), but yea that name would mean something like marine, in English.
+3
Level 49
Sep 14, 2019
Missed San Marino and a couple of 'stans'!

Thank you jetpunk, my geography is much improved

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Level 27
Oct 5, 2019
ama san marino e na kraq na italia
+2
Level 76
Jan 28, 2020
No, it's not at "the end of Italy" it is enclaved by Italy
+2
Level 58
Apr 11, 2022
Bulgarian. In case anyone is wondering.

[Might be Macedonian, I don't know for sure.]

+4
Level 61
Apr 20, 2020
Fun fact:

Bolivia used to have a coastline but lost it to Chile in 1884 after the Saltpeter War. To this day, the country maintains a navy on Lake Titicaca. Every year on 23 March, called Dia del Mar (the Day of the Sea), the people of Bolivia commemorate the loss of the coastline.

Never get between a Bolivia and its coast.

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Level 55
Apr 11, 2022
Ah, yes, because Chile just needed some more coastline
+2
Level 25
Jun 17, 2020
Whaaaaat? Laos is landlocked? I'm still in shock! Mind blown!
+3
Level 60
Sep 17, 2021
That moment when you see a map for the first time.
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Level 72
Oct 13, 2020
2/3 of these countries are terrible places to live!
+1
Level 66
Nov 19, 2020
Missed three of them. Laos, Bolivia and Eswatini. Note to self - Eswatini touches Mozambique so it is not enclosed within South Africa like Lesotho is but it's still landlocked!
+1
Level 52
Nov 26, 2020
Comma is missing for Luxembourg's area
+3
Level 85
Nov 26, 2020
On the front page, it says: "Hint: Africa has a lot!" Well, Africa edges out Europe by the slimmest of margins (16 to 15) and is not that far ahead of Asia (16 to 12).
+2
Level 65
Nov 26, 2020
I live ~50 km from polish -belarusian border and only country I've missed is Belarus :|
+2
Level 59
Nov 28, 2020
I always forget that ethiopia is landlocked and idk why but to be fair i don't live anywhere near ethiopia
+1
Level 50
Dec 8, 2020
Oh my god, how on Earth could I forget Ethiopia...
+1
Level 64
Jan 19, 2021
Missed Slovenia and Burkina Faso...
+1
Level 62
Mar 9, 2021
You mean Slovakia?
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Level 64
Mar 26, 2021
Oops.

My bad lol

+1
Level 63
Feb 14, 2021
Great quiz, but there is a comma missing for the 2,000 on Luxembourg.
+2
Level 54
Apr 11, 2022
Still Boggles my mind a little that Uganda is Bigger In size than Belarus. Looking at a flat Mercator map you’d never guess. Crazy how distortion works.
+7
Level 36
Apr 11, 2022
I'm from Africa's smallest landlocked country Eswatini
+5
Level 71
Apr 11, 2022
Cool! I don't think we have a lot of users from Eswatini, but I always enjoy seeing smaller countries like yours being represented on JetPunk :D
+1
Level 38
Apr 11, 2022
Iraq and Jordan?
+1
Level 67
Oct 13, 2022
Iraq has acess to the Persian Gulf and Jordan has acess to the Red Sea.
+2
Level 58
Apr 11, 2022
Interestingly, while Moldova meets the criteria because it doesn't have a coastline, for practical purposes it is not truly landlocked because it has a "seaport" on the Danube river and access to the Black Sea by international treaty.
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Level 55
Apr 12, 2022
Yes, it has access to the ocean and so isn't land locked
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Level 15
Apr 11, 2022
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-Psalms 37:5-6

Remember, it all starts with YOU.

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Level 70
Apr 15, 2022
The devil you say!
+1
Level 54
Aug 22, 2023
Nuh-uh
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Level 72
Feb 2, 2024
I respect these spam bots' cause, but it gets annoying. If they're going to preach, why go to the comments section of a geography quiz? I don't get it.
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Level 34
Jun 13, 2022
42/45 Missed Switzerland, Botswana, and I forgot JetPunk considers kosovo as a country
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Level 50
Jun 22, 2022
How many people are making quizzes under the name Quizmaster? You said we, but on your profile it just says Dan Hostetler.
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Level 44
Jul 20, 2022
I forgot that azerbaijan is landlock

Because its touch the caspian sea

And caspian is just a giant lake

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Level 65
Jul 22, 2022
Forgot Bolivia uganda and forgot to put Turkmenistan when putting all central Asian countries (besides Uzbekistan)
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Level 51
Jul 25, 2022
I managed get everything except the second largest at the very last minute!
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Level 42
Feb 22, 2023
Where is Uzbekistan, it's double-landlocked country
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Level 37
Mar 7, 2023
I didn't think I would get this first try. Great quiz!
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Level 43
May 4, 2023
Thought the Caspian Sea would make it not “Land”Locked
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Level 23
Jun 1, 2023
I had only 1 second left, that was so clutch.
+1
Level 37
Jun 4, 2023
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan border have shores to the Caspian sea...
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Level 67
Oct 20, 2023
The Caspian Sea is a lake.
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Level 51
Jun 13, 2023
Great quiz, took me over to minutes to get Moldova.
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Level 37
Jul 19, 2023
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan share a coastline with the Caspian Sea.
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Level 67
Oct 20, 2023
The Caspian Sea is a lake.
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Level 23
Jan 8, 2024
wow! there are not many landlocked countries. Didnt knew that before. Great Quiz btw
+2
Level 55
Feb 2, 2024
How did I not know that Laos was landlocked!!!!
+2
Level 59
Feb 2, 2024
..nice, but too easy...
+4
Level 50
Feb 2, 2024
Get a job
+2
Level 66
Feb 2, 2024
Please; the Subway nearest my house is always understaffed.
+1
Level ∞
Feb 2, 2024
With the one employee who is always taking the same nasty gloves off to handle the money, then putting the gloves back on, but maybe forgetting sometimes.

Subway has the worst service of any fast food restaurant.

#changemymind.

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Level 42
Feb 2, 2024
barely got them all with 2 seconds left, that was super fun
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Level 56
Feb 3, 2024
Wow 44/45 I just missed bloody Malawi!!!
+1
Level 43
Feb 16, 2024
Pretty easy quiz. First try!
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Level 22
Feb 25, 2024
I'm so dumb. I missed Switzerland, Austria & Hungary 😑
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Level 32
Mar 18, 2024
No Bosnia + Herzegovina? What happened to i want to swim meme