List of countries bordering on two or more oceans explained

This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic.^[1] Countries which border on multiple oceans because of discontiguous regions are excluded here but included in the list of transcontinental countries.^[2] Countries bordering on just one of the five oceans are not included, no matter how many of its marginal seas they touch.^[3]

List

Continent	Country	Oceans					Trans-oceanic connection
		Pacific	Atlantic	Indian	Polar	Count
	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	Kra Canal (proposed)
	Malaysia	South China Sea		Andaman Sea		2	Strait of Malacca
	Indonesia	Pacific Ocean		Indian Ocean		2
& Australia/Oceania		Savu Sea,		Timor Sea		2
					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			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				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
		South Pacific	South Atlantic	Indian Ocean	Southern Ocean	1 or 3	Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

See also

• Borders of the oceans
• Boundaries between the continents of Earth
• Sea to Sea (disambiguation)
• Transcontinental railroad
• World Ocean
• Bioceanic principle

Notes and References

1. Web site: How many oceans are there?. National Ocean Service. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 7 February 2016.
2. For example, France is not included because its overseas departments are not contiguous with Metropolitan France. In total France would have bordered on three or four oceans.
3. For example, India is not included. It borders on the Indian Ocean including the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian and Andaman Seas, which would all be in the Indian Ocean column of the table.