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Being surrounded by land has immense economic and political implications for the world's 44 landlocked countries. From crippling trade costs to unique national security vulnerabilities, a lack of coastline presents…
The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline was a World Bank project meant to turn a landlocked nation's oil into wealth for its people. This steel river, stretching 1,070 km from Chad's Doba Basin…
Being landlocked is a major geographic hurdle, but what about being "double landlocked"? This rare status, held by only Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein, means a country is surrounded entirely by other…