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Austria is a landlocked federal republic in Central Europe with Vienna as its capital. For centuries it was the center of the Habsburg monarchy, and imperial buildings such as the Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palace remain in the capital. Composers including Mozart, Haydn, and Strauss worked in Vienna, wh...

The Czech Republic, also called Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. Its terrain includes the Bohemian Basin, the Moravian lowlands, forested hills, and river valleys, while Prague is known for medieval and Baroque architecture, its c...

Vatican City is an independent city-state enclaved within Rome, established as a sovereign entity under the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy. It is the smallest country in the world by both area and population and serves as the spiritual and administrative centre of the Roman Catho...

Nepal is a landlocked federal republic in the Himalayas between India and China, with Kathmandu as its capital. It contains eight of the world's fourteen mountains above 8,000 metres, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, and its terrain descends from alpine peaks to the lowland Terai...

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, with Budapest, straddling the Danube, as its capital. Its language, Hungarian, is a Uralic language unrelated to most of its neighbours' tongues. Budapest is known for his...

Botswana is a landlocked republic in Southern Africa bordering South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with Gaborone as its capital. Administered as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland until independence in 1966, it has since maintained a multiparty democracy and built one of Africa's more prospero...

Bhutan is a landlocked Himalayan kingdom between China and India, with its capital at Thimphu and Dzongkha as the official language. Vajrayana Buddhism is central to national life, reflected in fortress-monasteries called dzongs and the cliffside temple of Paro Taktsang, the Tiger's Nest. The govern...

The Ungava seal is a rare, landlocked freshwater subspecies of the harbor seal found exclusively in a few lakes of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula in Canada. It is one of the very few inland seal populations on the planet, having been isolated in freshwater since the last ice age. This small marine mammal...

Mastigias albipunctatus is a species of true jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa, commonly associated with the marine lake ecosystems of Palau. These jellyfish are endemic to isolated anchialine lakes, where they have evolved distinct morphological and behavioral traits compared to their open-ocean cou...

The Bolivian river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) is an endemic freshwater cetacean native to the Madeira and Mamoré river sub-basins in Bolivia. Morphologically distinct from the Amazon river dolphin, it features a smaller body size and a different number of teeth. Following extensive scientific resear...

Slovakia is a landlocked country in Central Europe that became independent in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The Carpathian Mountains, including the High Tatras range, cover much of its territory, and its capital and largest city is Bratislava, on the Danube River. Slovak...

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia whose western border follows the Mekong River. Its capital is Vientiane, and the former royal capital Luang Prabang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is known for its Buddhist temples and monasteries. A for...

Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa extending from the Sahara in the north through the Sahel to savanna in the south. The Niger River supports major settlements and agricultural areas, including the inland delta, while Timbuktu and Djenné preserve links to medieval trans-Saharan trade, Islam...

Serbia is a landlocked country in the Balkans, with Belgrade as its capital and largest city, located at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. It was a core republic of Yugoslavia in the 20th century and re-emerged as an independent state after Montenegro separated in 2006. Serbian Orthodox...

Luxembourg is a landlocked country in Western Europe bordered by Belgium, Germany, and France; its capital, Luxembourg City, has UNESCO-listed old quarters and fortifications, and medieval castles such as Vianden stand elsewhere in the country. It is the world's only sovereign grand duchy, a constit...

Bolivia is a landlocked country in South America that lost its Pacific coastline to Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). Its terrain spans the Andean Altiplano, home to Lake Titicaca on the border with Peru, and lowland Amazon basin rainforest. Sucre is the constitutional capital, while La P...

Lesotho is a landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, completely surrounded by South Africa. Much of its territory lies in the Maloti and Drakensberg highlands, where steep valleys, plateaus, and winter snowfall shape settlement, grazing, and travel. The Basotho people form the country’s main cultural...

Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia and one of only two doubly landlocked nations in the world. Its Silk Road cities—Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva—contain Islamic architecture such as the Registan ensemble in Samarkand and are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A Soviet republic from 1924,...

Rwanda is a small, landlocked, densely populated country in East-Central Africa whose terrain has earned it the description 'land of a thousand hills'; Kigali is its capital. A former Belgian colonial territory, it gained independence in 1962. In 1994 it experienced a genocide in which an estimated...

Liechtenstein is a German-speaking principality in the Alps, situated between Switzerland and Austria, with Vaduz as its capital. A constitutional monarchy under the Prince of Liechtenstein, it is one of the world's smallest countries and one of only two doubly landlocked states. It uses the Swiss f...

Zambia is a landlocked country in Southern Africa with its capital at Lusaka. It shares Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River along its border with Zimbabwe, and was known as Northern Rhodesia before independence from Britain in 1964. Copper mining in the Copperbelt Province has long dominated the ec...

Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa with its capital at Addis Ababa, which hosts the African Union headquarters. One of the world's oldest Christian nations, it adopted Christianity in the fourth century CE, and its heritage sites include the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and the...

Uganda is a landlocked East African country straddling the equator, with its capital, Kampala, on the shores of Lake Victoria near the Nile's outlet at Jinja. The Rwenzori Mountains rise in the west along the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, to...

Afghanistan is a landlocked country in south-central Asia, bordered by Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and a narrow corridor connecting it with China. The Hindu Kush dominates the terrain, with high mountain valleys, dry plateaus, and river basins that support settlement and ag...

North Macedonia is a landlocked, mountainous country in the Balkans with its capital at Skopje, whose old bazaar reflects centuries of Ottoman rule. It declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 and adopted its present name in 2019 under an agreement with Greece. Lake Ohrid, shared with Albania,...

Armenia is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus with its capital at Yerevan, founded in the eighth century BCE. Traditionally dated to 301 CE, it was the first nation to adopt Christianity as a state religion, and the Armenian Apostolic Church remains central to national identity;...

Mongolia is a landlocked country between Russia and China, with Ulaanbaatar as its capital and one of the lowest population densities of any sovereign state. Much of its terrain is steppe and high plateau, including the Gobi Desert in the south, and a large share of the population continues a nomadi...

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa with its capital at Harare. The Zambezi River forms its northwestern border, where it shares Victoria Falls, one of the world's largest waterfalls, with Zambia. The medieval stone city of Great Zimbabwe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, gave the count...

San Marino is a landlocked microstate entirely surrounded by Italy, situated on and around Mount Titano in the Apennines. Tradition dates its founding to 301 CE, and it regards itself as one of the world's oldest surviving republics. Its historic center, with medieval towers and fortification walls,...