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List of countries bordering on two or more oceans

Overview of trans-oceanic countries

World map of countries by number of oceans bordered:

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boundaries

Some non-landlocked countries touch more than one of the five named oceans: the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern. Countries bordering only one ocean are not listed here, no matter how many of its marginal seas they touch. The main list includes only contiguous areas touching multiple oceans; a second list includes countries whose total number of oceans is increased due to discontiguous areas.

Contiguous area

This list includes only contiguous parts of a country with coastlines on multiple oceans. Countries touching multiple oceans due to discontiguous reasions are listed below in . Under each ocean is listed the smallest named region or marginal sea that includes the coastline where that country and ocean meet.

Continent(s)	Country	Pacific Ocean	Atlantic Ocean	Indian Ocean	Polar oceans	Count	Trans-oceanic connection
	South Africa		South Atlantic	Indian Ocean	Southern Ocean		Cape of Good Hope
	Egypt		Mediterranean Sea	Red Sea		2	Suez Canal
	Israel		Mediterranean Sea	Red Sea		2	High-speed railway to Eilat (proposed)
	Thailand	Gulf of Thailand		Andaman Sea		2	Thai Canal (proposed)
	Malaysia	South China Sea		Andaman Sea		2	Strait of Malacca
	East Timor	Savu Sea
Flores Sea		Timor Sea		2
	Indonesia	Pacific Ocean		Indian Ocean		2
	Russia	North Pacific	Black Sea
Baltic Sea		Arctic Ocean	3	Trans-Siberian Railway
	Norway		Norwegian Sea		Barents Sea	2
	Iceland		North Atlantic		Greenland Sea
	Greenland		North Atlantic		Arctic Ocean	2
	Canada	North Pacific	North Atlantic		Arctic Ocean	3	Canadian Pacific Railway
	United States (Alaska)	North Pacific			Arctic Ocean		Trans-Alaska Pipeline
	United States (Lower 48)	North Pacific	North Atlantic				First transcontinental railroad
	Mexico	Pacific Ocean	Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea			2	Tehuantepec route
	Guatemala	Pacific Ocean	Gulf of Honduras			2
	Honduras	Gulf of Fonseca	Caribbean Sea			2
	Nicaragua	Pacific Ocean	Caribbean Sea			2	Nicaragua Canal (proposed)
	Costa Rica	Pacific Ocean	Caribbean Sea			2
	Panama	Gulf of Panama	Caribbean Sea			2	Panama Canal
	Colombia	Pacific Ocean	Caribbean Sea			2
	Chile	South Pacific	Strait of Magellan
Beagle Channel
Drake Passage		Southern Ocean
	Argentina	Beagle Channel	South Atlantic		Drake Passage
	Australia	South Pacific		Indian Ocean	Southern Ocean		Indian Pacific

Discontiguous countries

This section lists countries whose overall count of oceans is increased by considering discontiguous areas.

Only the largest contiguous area is listed under a given ocean, and then only if it contributes to the total number of oceans, so Great Britain and Metropolitan France are listed but not Bermuda or French Guiana, and Alaska and the Lower 48 are listed separately, but not Hawaii.

Country	Counts	Pacific Ocean	Atlantic Ocean	Indian Ocean	Southern Ocean	Arctic Ocean
France	4	1	New Caledonia	Metropolitan France	Réunion	Adélie Land
United Kingdom	4	1	Pitcairn Islands	Great Britain	BIOT	British Antarctic Territory
United States	3	2	Lower 48	Lower 48
2	Alaska				Alaska

Notes

References

"How many oceans are there?". [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]].
For example, [[India]] is not included. It borders on the Indian Ocean including the [[Andaman Sea]], the [[Arabian Sea]], and the [[Bay of Bengal]], which would all be in the Indian Ocean column of the table.
(1900). "Dollar Atlas of the World". Prepared and published especially for the [[Kansas City Journal]], Kansas City, Missouri by [[Rand McNally & Company]].

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