Landlocked
adjective
A place that is landlocked has no sea around it.
Austria and Switzerland are both landlocked countries.
Often appears as...
- landlocked country
- landlocked state
adjective
Not able to be reached by sea or navigable waterways.
The city is landlocked, with the closest port being 100 miles away.
Often appears as...
- landlocked city
- landlocked area
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adjective
A place that is landlocked has no sea around it.
Austria and Switzerland are both landlocked countries.
Often appears as...
- landlocked country
- landlocked state
adjective
Not able to be reached by sea or navigable waterways.
The city is landlocked, with the closest port being 100 miles away.
Often appears as...
- landlocked city
- landlocked area
Usage tips
Disapproving
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3No Water Access
The term 'landlocked' emphasizes the absence of direct access to oceans or seas.
Being a landlocked nation, Bolivia has no navy.
Pro Tip 2/3Trade Challenges
Landlocked areas may face difficulties in trade due to lack of ports.
Landlocked countries often negotiate trade routes through neighboring nations.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Use
Frequently used in geography, 'landlocked' helps describe a location's features.
Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country by area.
Pro Tip 1/3No Water Access
The term 'landlocked' emphasizes the absence of direct access to oceans or seas.
Being a landlocked nation, Bolivia has no navy.
Pro Tip 2/3Trade Challenges
Landlocked areas may face difficulties in trade due to lack of ports.
Landlocked countries often negotiate trade routes through neighboring nations.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Use
Frequently used in geography, 'landlocked' helps describe a location's features.
Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country by area.
Pro Tip 1/3No Water Access
The term 'landlocked' emphasizes the absence of direct access to oceans or seas.
Being a landlocked nation, Bolivia has no navy.
Pro Tip 2/3Trade Challenges
Landlocked areas may face difficulties in trade due to lack of ports.
Landlocked countries often negotiate trade routes through neighboring nations.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Use
Frequently used in geography, 'landlocked' helps describe a location's features.
Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country by area.
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Parag Khanna maps the...
Now should we be upset about this, about the potential disintegration of Iraq? I don't believe we should. Iraq will still be the second largest oil producer in the world, behind Saudi Arabia. And we'll have a chance to solve a 3,000 year old dispute. Now remember Kurdistan is landlocked.
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Rose George: Inside the...
in shipping over the last 60 years, when most of the general public stopped noticing it, was something called an open registry, or a flag of convenience. Ships can now fly the flag of any nation that provides a flag registry. You can get a flag from the landlocked nation
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Family Ties PIPE Jurassic...
the size of a turkey and covered in hair like down feathers it was called Sinosauropteryx and it's feather like filament was a crucial link between landlocked dinosaurs and modern winged birds birds alligators and dinosaurs forever linked in evolutionary history
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The unexpected benefit...
we couldn't get staple crops like grains and rice to grow this way. So we killed the project. Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous costs in resources and environmental damage to ship goods worldwide. Economic development of landlocked countries
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Amanda Burden: How...
but I'm completely moved by the fact that people are using it as if it had always been there. And here is a new park in lower Manhattan. Now, the water's edge in lower Manhattan was a complete mess before 9/11. Wall Street was essentially landlocked
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How Do Satellites Help...
was for mobile communications but then also you have of course when the internet came along you have landlocked countries where submarine cables don't work so the middle of Africa for example you can't use submarine cables to get to them
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How megacities are...
It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,
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Cultivating wealth and...
of the world's regions by GDP that's true on an aggregate as well as a per capita basis now as we heard yesterday sub-saharan Africa it's a big place we have 48 countries all of their own story we have coastal countries landlocked
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This country isn't just...
The point is my country and my people have done nothing to contribute to global warming, but we are already bearing the brunt of its consequences. And for a small, poor country, one that is landlocked and mountainous,
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How we're saving one of...
Visible from space, the Okavango Delta is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness. This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari,
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Parag Khanna maps the...
Now should we be upset about this, about the potential disintegration of Iraq? I don't believe we should. Iraq will still be the second largest oil producer in the world, behind Saudi Arabia. And we'll have a chance to solve a 3,000 year old dispute. Now remember Kurdistan is landlocked.
Video examples
Rose George: Inside the...
in shipping over the last 60 years, when most of the general public stopped noticing it, was something called an open registry, or a flag of convenience. Ships can now fly the flag of any nation that provides a flag registry. You can get a flag from the landlocked nation
Video examples
Family Ties PIPE Jurassic...
the size of a turkey and covered in hair like down feathers it was called Sinosauropteryx and it's feather like filament was a crucial link between landlocked dinosaurs and modern winged birds birds alligators and dinosaurs forever linked in evolutionary history
Video examples
The unexpected benefit...
we couldn't get staple crops like grains and rice to grow this way. So we killed the project. Here's another huge problem. We pay enormous costs in resources and environmental damage to ship goods worldwide. Economic development of landlocked countries
Video examples
Amanda Burden: How...
but I'm completely moved by the fact that people are using it as if it had always been there. And here is a new park in lower Manhattan. Now, the water's edge in lower Manhattan was a complete mess before 9/11. Wall Street was essentially landlocked
Video examples
How Do Satellites Help...
was for mobile communications but then also you have of course when the internet came along you have landlocked countries where submarine cables don't work so the middle of Africa for example you can't use submarine cables to get to them
Video examples
How megacities are...
It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,
Video examples
Cultivating wealth and...
of the world's regions by GDP that's true on an aggregate as well as a per capita basis now as we heard yesterday sub-saharan Africa it's a big place we have 48 countries all of their own story we have coastal countries landlocked
Video examples
This country isn't just...
The point is my country and my people have done nothing to contribute to global warming, but we are already bearing the brunt of its consequences. And for a small, poor country, one that is landlocked and mountainous,
Video examples
How we're saving one of...
Visible from space, the Okavango Delta is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness. This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari,
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Quote examples
Thomas Mallon
American Novelist
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.
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Michael Korda
English Novelist
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
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Robert Zoellick
American Public Servant
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
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Jake Sullivan
American Public Servant
For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.
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Julie Burchill
British Journalist
Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.
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Caterina Fake
American Businesswoman
If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.
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Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
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Priti Patel
British Politician
We are not some small landlocked European country who needs the E.U. to make decisions for us or protect us from competition.
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Brad Leone
American Chef
I've always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.
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Thomas Mallon
American Novelist
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.
Quote examples
Michael Korda
English Novelist
It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.
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Robert Zoellick
American Public Servant
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.
Quote examples
Jake Sullivan
American Public Servant
For being in a place that's landlocked, Minnesotans have a real sense of the wider world. Teachers, friends, neighbors - everywhere I went in Minnesota, people put their heads up and looked out to the horizon.
Quote examples
Julie Burchill
British Journalist
Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.
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Caterina Fake
American Businesswoman
If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.
Quote examples
Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.
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Priti Patel
British Politician
We are not some small landlocked European country who needs the E.U. to make decisions for us or protect us from competition.
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Brad Leone
American Chef
I've always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.
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