Some non-landlocked countries touch more than one of the five named oceans: the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern. Countries bordering only one ocean are not listed here, no matter how many of its marginal seas they touch.For example, India is not included. It borders on the Indian Ocean including the Andaman Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Bay of Bengal, which would all be in the Indian Ocean column of the table. The main list includes only contiguous areas touching multiple oceans; a second list includes countries whose total number of oceans is increased due to discontiguous areas.
Contiguous area This list includes only contiguous parts of a country with coastlines on multiple oceans. Countries touching multiple oceans due to discontiguous reasions are listed below in . Under each ocean is listed the smallest named region or marginal sea that includes the coastline where that country and ocean meet.
Continent(s) Country Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Polar oceans Count Trans-oceanic connection South Atlantic Indian Ocean Southern Ocean Cape of Good Hope Mediterranean Sea Red Sea 2 Suez Canal Mediterranean Sea Red Sea 2 High-speed railway to Eilat (proposed) Gulf of Thailand Andaman Sea 2 Thai Canal (proposed) South China Sea Andaman Sea 2 Strait of Malacca Savu Sea Timor Sea 2 Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean 2 North Pacific Black SeaBaltic Sea Arctic Ocean 3 Trans-Siberian Railway Norwegian Sea Barents Sea 2 North AtlanticGreenland Sea North Atlantic Arctic Ocean 2 North Pacific North Atlantic Arctic Ocean 3 Canadian Pacific Railway (Alaska) North Pacific Arctic Ocean Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Lower 48) North Pacific North Atlantic First transcontinental railroad Pacific Ocean Gulf of MexicoCaribbean Sea 2 Tehuantepec route Pacific Ocean Gulf of Honduras 2 Gulf of Fonseca Caribbean Sea 2 Pacific Ocean Caribbean Sea 2 Nicaragua Canal (proposed) Pacific Ocean Caribbean Sea 2 Gulf of Panama Caribbean Sea 2 Panama Canal Pacific Ocean Caribbean Sea 2 South Pacific Strait of MagellanBeagle Channel Drake Passage Southern Ocean Beagle Channel South Atlantic Drake Passage South Pacific Indian Ocean Southern Ocean Indian Pacific Continent(s) Country Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Polar oceans Count Trans-oceanic connection
Discontiguous countries
This section lists countries whose overall count of oceans is increased by considering discontiguous areas.
Only the largest contiguous area is listed under a given ocean, and then only if it contributes to the total number of oceans, so Great Britain and Metropolitan France are listed but not Bermuda or French Guiana, and Alaska and the Lower 48 are listed separately, but not Hawaii.
Country Counts Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Southern Ocean Arctic Ocean 4 1 New Caledonia Metropolitan France Réunion Adélie Land 4 1 Pitcairn Islands Great Britain BIOT British Antarctic Territory 3 2 Lower 48 Lower 48 2 Alaska Alaska
See also Bioceanic principle Borders of the oceans Boundaries between the continents Sea to Sea (disambiguation) Transcontinental railroad World Ocean
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