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This Country Is Trapped Inside Another Country And Has No Coast

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Five countries touch only one other country by land. Number one, Lesotho, is completely surrounded by South Africa.

5. Portugal: the Atlantic on two sides, Spain on the other two.
4. South Korea: sea on three sides, North Korea on the fourth.
3. Brunei: two separate pieces, and both border only Malaysia.
2. The Gambia: Senegal wraps around it, except for one short stretch of coast.
1. Lesotho: no coast at all. South Africa surrounds the entire country.

Which would you rather live in: Lesotho, or The Gambia?
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Five examples, not a complete list: the count is distinct neighbouring countries across land boundaries (maritime neighbours excluded). Borders are Natural Earth 1:10m cartographic lines (the Korean line is the present dividing line from that dataset, not a surveyed legal border). The Lesotho terrain is real (Copernicus DEM), with the height exaggeration stated on screen.

Sources: AICEP Portugal Global, Portugal fact sheet; Republic of Korea Overseas Koreans Agency, geography of Korea (whic.mofa.go.kr); Brunei Department of Economic Planning and Statistics, Brunei Darussalam Statistical Yearbook 2024; Government of The Gambia, "About The Gambia" (gambia.gov.gm); Australian Government DFAT, Lesotho country brief. Adjacency checked against Natural Earth admin-0 1:10m v5.1.1.

Credits: Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless – https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017), CC BY 4.0; NASA Blue Marble Next Generation via NASA GIBS (world view, the colour of The Gambia and Lesotho, and a no-data patch near Wonsan). Terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-90 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. Borders and the Gambia River line: Natural Earth, public domain. Flags: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Map animation built and rendered by Atlas Tilt; music and sound effects are original.
Narration is synthetic (Andre voice, Eleven v4 via Higgsfield).

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COUNTRY HITS
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strange borders, landlocked, lesotho
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