Can you name the countries that have no ocean coasts? by ZLew27

Can you name the countries that have no ocean coasts?

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Game isn't inclusive of overseas territories. The extra column (Major Body of Water Bordered) is just a body of water the country has a coast on that isn't an ocean. It may or may not be the only one.
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Continent	Country	Major Body of Water Bordered?
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Africa		Mediterranean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
North America		Caribbean Sea
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		Landlocked
Asia		Persian Gulf
Asia		Bay of Bengal
North America		Caribbean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		North Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Africa		Bight of Benin
Asia		Landlocked
South America		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Asia		South China Sea
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Landlocked
Asia		Gulf of Thailand
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		North Sea
Africa		Red Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Africa		Red Sea
Africa		Red Sea
Europe		Baltic Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Gulf of Guinea

Continent	Country	Major Body of Water Bordered?
Europe		Gulf of Finland
Asia		Black Sea
Europe		North Sea
Africa		Gulf of Guinea
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Asia		Persian Gulf
Asia		Persian Gulf
Asia		Mediterranean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Asia		Gulf of Aqaba
Asia		Mediterranean Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		Landlocked
Asia		Persian Gulf
Asia		Landlocked
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		Baltic Sea
Africa		Mediterranean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		Baltic Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		South China Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		Adriatic Sea
Asia		Bay of Bengal
Asia		Arabian Sea
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		North Sea

Continent	Country	Major Body of Water Bordered?
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Gulf of Guinea
South America		Landlocked
Europe		Baltic Sea
Asia		Persian Gulf
Europe		Black Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Asia		Red Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Africa		Gulf of Guinea
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		South China Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Africa		Red Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Europe		Baltic Sea
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		Mediterranean Sea
Asia		Landlocked
Africa		Gulf of Guinea
North America		Caribbean Sea
Africa		Mediterranean Sea
Asia/Europe		Mediterranean Sea
Asia		Caspian Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Europe		Black Sea
Asia		Persian Gulf
Asia		Landlocked
Europe		Landlocked
Asia		South China Sea
South America		Caribbean Sea
Asia		Arabian Sea
Africa		Landlocked
Africa		Landlocked

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Countries With No Ocean Coasts Quiz

by ZLew27

Created Sep 15, 2010 in Geography
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	bsd987:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 14:03 GMT	4 points
	Austria?

	bsd987:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT	4 points
	Eritrea, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Djibouti?

	HiddenPalace:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 14:43 GMT	3 points
	Austria, the Red Sea countries, plus the South China Sea countries all need to be considered for inclusion. What constitutes a sea of importance is vaguely and subjectively defined here. Poor quality research. And it seems nonsensical to include Sao Tome but not Equatorial Guinea for example.

	lancehoch:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 14:47 GMT	2 points
	You should accept "saint" as well as "st."

	ben1251:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:23 GMT	2 points
	kyrgyzstan before libya but after latvia??

	ZLew27:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT	0 points
	I've added Austria, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, Djibouti, Vietnam, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Equatorial Guinea. Tunisia and Libya were already included. I had a few oversights, but there is no need to be rude. I thank everybody for constructive criticisms, because that's what makes quizzes, and Sporcle in general, better. Also, I've added Saint as acceptable for St.

	marpocky:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	2 points
	Interesting idea, but tough to pull off and poorly executed. Why some Gulf of Guinea countries, but not all (i.e. Togo, Benin, etc.)? Why Myanmar but not Bangladesh? Why, say, Cuba but not Taiwan?

	ZLew27:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT	1 point
	@lancehoch - I don't know why Krygyzstan keeps moving around. I've fixed it 2 or 3 times and it's moved again. I fixed it just now, so hopefully it doesn't do that again.

	ZLew27:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:33 GMT	1 point
	@HiddenPalace - Note that the Major Body of Water Bordered column is simply ONE large body of water the country has a coast on. When a country had more than one, I just picked one to enter at my discretion. So you're right, it is subjective, but it really shouldn't affect the game at all since you don't have to enter them.

	ZLew27:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 17:41 GMT	1 point
	@marpocky - I've added other countries on the Gulf of Guinea (Togo, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria) and Bangladesh. I've not included Taiwan because it technically has a coast on the Western Pacific Ocean.

	Endasil:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 18:08 GMT	3 points
	This quiz doesn't make any sense at all. Saying Togo doesn't have coast on the Atlantic Ocean because it's on the Gulf of Guinea is like saying that the Empire State Building isn't in New York City because it's on Manhattan. Manhattan is part of New York City. The Gulf of Guinea is part of the Atlantic Ocean (that fact is in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article!).

	ZLew27:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 18:11 GMT	1 point
	@Endasil - I know, the quiz has gotten a little out of hand. As noted by others, the idea is a little hard to pull off. So basically at this point, it's any country that isn't directly on an ocean (whether or not the body of water it's on is considered part of an ocean as in the case of the Gulf of Guinea). I do think it's funny that you went and looked up Togo on Wikipedia though because that one little country caught your attention. Anyway, the quiz has some fundamental flaws, so take it for what it's worth.

	Endasil:	Sep 15th, 2010 at 18:45 GMT	2 points
	I don't think the quiz is fundamentally flawed. As described, this quiz would include countries on the Mediterranean, landlocked countries, etc. You're right in that it is hard to pull off. To ease in creating it, typically something named a "sea" isn't considered part of the ocean, whereas something named a "gulf" is...caveat: some exceptions.

	ZLew27:	Sep 16th, 2010 at 18:42 GMT	1 point
	@tulo2 - That is not the point of this quiz. It is countries that don't have a coast directly on the ocean. It's not like the Dominican Republic is an isolated case. There are many countries that border a body of water considered "part" of an ocean. It's countries that don't have the body of water they lie on labeled "Some Ocean". Given, this is probably not a great quiz, but it's an idea I had that didn't quite work out. Until you can show me all of your quizzes that are so much better (I looked, you don't have them), you should keep your comments either constructive or non-existent.

	ballabosh:	Sep 17th, 2010 at 21:45 GMT	1 point
	If you don't include seas/gulfs/bays as an extension of an ocean, just about every coutry in the world doesn't border an ocean. China doesn't (Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea). France doesn't (English Channel, Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean). North & South Korea, Mozambique. Even Russia save for a small slice of the Kamchatka Penninsula is surrounded by seas.