Countries

Table flags of Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan beside transit paperwork and small parcels, illustrating overland trade for double landlocked countries.

Double Landlocked Countries

Sometimes geography creates puzzles. A landlocked state has no coastline on the open ocean. Rarer still, a double landlocked state has

Afghanistan: Country Profile — cover image with country outline and headline

Afghanistan: Country Profile

Afghanistan (endonyms: افغانستان in Dari Persian; افغانستان in Pashto) is a landlocked, mountainous country at the crossroads of Central and

Continents

Snow-covered Antarctic mountains and coastal glaciers reflected in calm Southern Ocean waters on the Antarctic Peninsula.
   

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent—a vast, windswept wilderness about the size of the United States and Mexico combined. It holds