Point 3 of 8 — Lesson 1: Egypt’s Geographic Location, the Suez Canal and Strategic ImportanceQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
03Third: location relative to land and water
Maritime states
Maritime statesface open seas.
The value of a maritime position depends on: thelength of the coastline, theimportance of the water body, and thehinterland.
Hinterland: the zone lying behind the coast. It is most useful when it is flat, because flat land makes communication easy between the coast and the rest of the country.
A maritime state may face the sea with one front(Syria, Chile), withtwo fronts(Egypt, Saudi Arabia), or fromall sides — island states such as Britain and Japan.
Egypt
Egypt facestwo seas, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and theSuez Canal links them.
It lies in thenorth-eastern corner of Africa, with an area of about1.01 million km².
Landlocked states
Landlocked states have no direct contact with open seas; they reach the worldthrough the territory of neighbouring states — Ethiopia, Uganda, Afghanistan.
Some landlocked states userivers as routes to the world, such as theRhineand theDanube.
Africa contains the most landlocked states of any continent, then Asia, then South America.
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