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West Bank or Palestine?

The inclusion of the West Bank here strikes me as weird. No one recognizes the West Bank as an independent state by itself, but rather as part of Palestine, which has access to the Mediterranean through the Gaza strip. Felagund (talk) 04:42, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I totally agree with you. It's very weird. The West Bank is a disputed territory claimed and partially administered by the partially recognised State of Palestine, which also has access to the world's oceans through the Gaza Strip. The West Bank by itself shouldn't be classified as a landlocked country. Kenwick (talk) 23:51, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is no meaningful connection between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and Gaza itself doesn't really have access to the sea (the port is controlled by Israel). There is no doubt that the West Bank is landlocked territory, is there? The article already specifies its limited recognition as a country.

As usual, we're guided by sources: I've added a few, but if reliable sources are found to support a different statement on the article then let's discuss them. Nemo 08:48, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It isn't Wikipedia's place to make its own determination that there is "no meaningful connection" and to declare that two territories are mutually independent in defiance of international convention. The sources you supplied also make no such determination. They state, correctly, that the West Bank is landlocked, which is no different than saying Jerusalem or Illinois or Sichuan is landlocked. It's true in all cases, but none meet the inclusion criterion for this article.

As for Gaza, "landlocked" means lacking a coast, not lacking a fully controlled port. Largoplazo (talk) 11:33, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think every one would agree that the West Bank is a landlocked territory, but calling it a landlocked country implies that it is an independent country, or at least a partially recognised independent country, but it clearly is not an independent country. As for the Gaza Strip, since Israel is controlling its seaport, we can say it is a "commercially landlocked" territory, but is it a truly landlocked territory? I don't think so. IMO, if I can find a beach and see some people swim in the seawater, it is not a landlocked place. Kenwick (talk) 13:09, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tibet

Unlike Transnistria et al., Tibet does not have quasi-indepndent organs of government and is not a self-declared independent country. El_C 01:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Self-proclaimed countries with no actual control of their proclaimed territory shall not be included. In some way, they are not even as "independent" as those micronations. Kenwick (talk) 23:39, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Caspian Sea dispute

I reckon the Uzbekistan should not be considered as doubly landlocked KarM4xAyush (talk) 07:39, 4 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Every source says it is. 120.16.171.146 (talk) 02:03, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic now a landlocked country?

According to some sources, it seems that Morocco has extended its berm into Mauritanian territory and successfully split the previously contiguous SADR-controlled part into separate regions. Does anyone know whether the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic still has access to the Atlantic Ocean? If not, we might have to add it to our list.

Links:

1. https://sovereignlimits.com/boundaries/morocco-western-sahara-land

2. https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/mapsonline/base-maps/western-sahara

3. https://gisgeography.com/western-sahara-map/#PoliticalMap 2001:8003:9008:1301:9535:F3C8:6763:D1BC (talk) 02:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The SADR is a claim to a nation. That claim, as far as I know, extends to the entirety of what used to be the Spanish Sahara and is now called Western Sahara, without regard to the details of the respective de facto control of the two faction of the land west and east of the berm that the Moroccan government constructed. Therefore, the land that SADR refers to continues to be the land that extends to the coast. Of the countries that have at some point recognized SADR, have they not uniformly recognized it to extend over all the territory the SADR itself claims, or have any of them recognized it but only to extend to a fraction of the territory it claims? Largoplazo (talk) 03:17, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware of any country recognising SADR but only within its de facto borders. They either accept or reject Morocco's claim. The IPs edits don't show the claim of a split, although I'm not doubting it might have happened. That said, SADR was effectively landlocked already, and a specific source would be needed for this article. CMD (talk) 05:47, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Black Sea

I'm not an expert so I'm not going to edit this myself. But it seems like the status of the Black Sea is worth an explicit description. My guess is that the Bosporus and Dardanelles makes countries that are only on the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia) not count as landlocked — but that still seems like something worth explicitly calling out? 135.180.50.142 (talk) 19:11, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you asking about the Black Sea because it looks nearly cut off from the oceans? But it isn't. It's really no different from Estonia (to get from the Baltic Sea to the oceans you have to navigate the Kattegat and Skaggerak) or Italy (the Mediterranean connects to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar). Largoplazo (talk) 22:19, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan isn't landlocked Nlivataye (talk) 14:45, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How would you navigate from Kazakhstan to, say, Spain? Referring to the definition given in the article, Kazakhstan is a country "that does not have territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie on endorheic basins". Largoplazo (talk) 15:16, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Luhansk People's Republic, South Ossetia?

Is there any need of mentioning it? Partially recognized states worth mention, I guess, but still there must be some systematic approach to it, since neither LPR nor South Ossetia have ever been considered as independent countries unrelated to political situation resulted in exercising of Russian military power. 194.183.170.194 (talk) 10:39, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]