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   Erland Sommarskog to Dan Tilque   
   Re: Three coast countries   
   21 Sep 25 11:48:06   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:   
   > 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.   
      
   The only situation I can think of here is Russia-Ukraine, but by   
   international recognition, Ukraine only has one coast. It falls into   
   two, if you accept Crimea as Russian, but not the occupation along the   
   Sea of Azov.   
      
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