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Third: location relative to land and water

Third: location relative to land and water

Point 3 of 8 — Lesson 1: Egypt’s Geographic Location, the Suez Canal and Strategic ImportanceQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

03 Third: location relative to land and water

Maritime states

  • Maritime states face open seas.
  • The value of a maritime position depends on: the length of the coastline, the importance of the water body, and the hinterland.
  • 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), with two fronts (Egypt, Saudi Arabia), or from all sides — island states such as Britain and Japan.

Egypt

  • Egypt faces two seas, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal links them.
  • It lies in the north-eastern corner of Africa, with an area of about 1.01 million km².

Landlocked states

  • Landlocked states have no direct contact with open seas; they reach the world through the territory of neighbouring states — Ethiopia, Uganda, Afghanistan.
  • Some landlocked states use rivers as routes to the world, such as the Rhine and the Danube.
  • Africa contains the most landlocked states of any continent, then Asia, then South America.

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