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  • Re: Three coast countries -- Answers

    From Erland Sommarskog@3:633/10 to Erland Sommarskog on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 08:34:54
    From: esquel@sommarskog.se

    Erland Sommarskog (esquel@sommarskog.se) writes:
    There are probably more that can be added to that list, but it follows
    from the discussion above that Lithuania and Kaliningrad are two-coast countries.


    Sorry, brain lapse. Kaliningrad has two coasts with the rules set up,
    but not Lithuania, since the Couronian spit goes as an exclave.

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  • From Mark Brader@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, September 25, 2025 04:24:23
    From: msb@vex.net

    Mark Brader:
    ...Point Roberts.

    Dan Tilque:
    Nope. Point Roberts is not connected to the rest of the US.
    That makes it an exclave...

    It's a matter of opinion, I guess.
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  • From Dan Tilque@3:633/10 to Mark Brader on Thursday, September 25, 2025 05:52:37
    From: dtilque@frontier.com

    On 9/24/25 21:24, Mark Brader wrote:
    Mark Brader:
    ...Point Roberts.

    Dan Tilque:
    Nope. Point Roberts is not connected to the rest of the US.
    That makes it an exclave...

    It's a matter of opinion, I guess.

    Technically, it's a pene-exclave, since you can get there from the US
    mainland via boat without going through some other country's territorial waters. But for the purposes of this question, it may as well be a true exclave. It's coast is not continous with that of the mainland.

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  • From Erland Sommarskog@3:633/10 to Dan Tilque on Thursday, September 25, 2025 20:21:59
    From: esquel@sommarskog.se

    Dan Tilque (dtilque@frontier.com) writes:
    Technically, it's a pene-exclave, since you can get there from the US mainland via boat without going through some other country's territorial waters. But for the purposes of this question, it may as well be a true exclave. It's coast is not continous with that of the mainland.


    Yeah, the entire question is up to the rules you set up. Saying that
    France has three coasts because of the short interruption of Monaco
    is stretching things a bit.

    Other definitions could be that the coasts must be on different waters
    or in different directions.

    Russia will always qualify, but you could also argue that Spain and
    Canada do, since Gibraltar and Point Roberts sit on boundaries between
    two different bodies of water. And if you remove the disqualification of contiguous borders more countries would qualify, for instance the US.

    When it comes to Point Roberts, it was clearly ruled out by the defintion
    that Dan set up, since used US as an example with only two coasts. There
    is no reason to assume that he would not know about Point Roberts given
    where he lives.

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  • From Mark Brader@3:633/10 to All on Friday, September 26, 2025 05:44:44
    From: msb@vex.net

    Mark Brader:
    ...Point Roberts.

    Dan Tilque:
    Nope. Point Roberts is not connected to the rest of the US.
    That makes it an exclave...

    Mark Brader:
    It's a matter of opinion, I guess.

    Dan Tilque:
    Technically, it's a pene-exclave...

    According to whose "techincal" terminology?

    But for the purposes of this question, it may as well be a true
    exclave. It's coast is not continous with that of the mainland.

    Meaning what, compared to the Mediterranean coasts of France,
    Spain, and Morocco?
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  • From Mark Brader@3:633/10 to All on Friday, September 26, 2025 05:46:23
    From: msb@vex.net

    Erland Sommarskog:
    When it comes to Point Roberts, it was clearly ruled out by the defintion that Dan set up, since used US as an example with only two coasts.

    I say the example was not part of the definition, and could be wrong.
    Compare: "A prime number is a natural number with no factors other
    than itself and 1, such as 3, 5, 7, and 9."
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