Countries that border a landlocked country
What the neighbors are like · general geography knowledge · 88 of 195 countries
In whatthecountry, every puzzle shows three clues that exactly one country satisfies. When “Borders a landlocked country” is on the board, its circle holds 88 of the 195 dots — a broad clue — on its own it excludes little, so read it together with the other two.
The 88 countries
Europe27
Asia18
Africa37
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Kenya
- Libya
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
More what the neighbors are like clues
- Borders a country in a different region21
- Every country it borders is larger than it51
- Every country it borders is smaller than it14
- Shares no official language with any of its neighbours54
- Borders a country whose name begins with the same letter30
- Borders a monarchy42
- Borders a country that drives on the other side of the road29
- Borders a country that has no other neighbour15
- Borders a country of more than 100 million people66
- Borders an island nation8
- Every country it borders has a coastline67
- Borders a country more than ten times its size59
- Borders a member of the European Union44
- Borders a member of NATO53
- Borders a country spanning more time zones than it does48
- Every country it borders has a higher peak than it does46
- Borders a country in a different hemisphere34
- Borders a country whose flag shares no colour with its own16
- Has more people than all of its neighbours combined8
- Is larger than all of its neighbours combined6
Facts reviewed June 2025.