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|    Dan Tilque to Erland Sommarskog    |
|    Re: Three coast countries    |
|    20 Sep 25 14:37:04    |
      From: dtilque@frontier.com              On 9/20/25 12:01, Erland Sommarskog wrote:       >       > The country I have in mind is Poland. The borders against Germany and       > Russia both runs through lagoons, and Poland has territory on both       > sides on the lagoons. The western lagoon forms the estuary of the Oder       > river, which could disqualify Poland. But according to Wikipedia, the       > water is brackish.       >       I looked at those borders using GoogleMaps, and can't see how they would       add even one coast to Poland. Perhaps I'm missing something.              As far as greyish areas, I've since discovered one. It depends on whose       claim to a significant amount of the land of a certain country you       accept. Going by international recognition, there's only two. But going       by de facto situation on the ground, there's three.              --       Dan Tilque              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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