AHC/ WI No Landlocked Countries

I am not even sure if this is possible, but I had a thought one time when I was browsing some Wikipedia articles. Basically, it seems like a lot of landlocked countries exist because they were once buffer states or because that's just where different people lived. Most countries depend on a coastline in order to have their own access to shipping routes, otherwise they'll have to rely on their neighbors. This seems to be why there used to be very few landlocked nations used to exist. At the start of WW1 there was only Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Serbia. Nowadays there's those three along with Belarus, Macedonia, Kosovo, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Moldova (and San Marino and the Vatican but you know). So I thought about how (or if) it'd even be possible to have a world with no landlocked nations. Landlocked nations can still have previously existed, but by 2019 they must all be gone. Any thoughts as to how (and again, if) this would be possible?
 
In general all of them can be dealt with by blobbing. South America is made of larger nations, India eats Nepal and Bhutan

Mongolia is split between China and Russia. The stans stay with Russia and greater Persia or some massive caliphate.

The Vatican doesn't get its own country, or is forced onto an island like Corsica.

Switzerland gets divided into France German and Italian hands. Andorra gets eaten. Luxembourg stays French or German.

For Africa its not too hard to have river catchment areas be the nations instead. I forget the name for it.
 
In Europe:

Andorra annexed by Spain/France. San Marino/Vatican by Italy, or Vatican retains Lazio. Luxembourg annexed by Germany or Belgium.

Surviving Austria-Hungary is probably the best chance for Czechia and Slovakia, otherwise a Greater Hungary with Slovakia and Croatia and Austria with Slovenia. Serbia retains Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo.

Belarus remains part of Russia or split by Poland Russia and Ukraine. That should be it for Europe right?

Edit: I cannot believe I forgot about Switzerland. And Liechtenstein. They're probably the toughest european country to either give coast or annex completely.
 
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The Vatican doesn't get its own country, or is forced onto an island like Corsica.
Given where the Vatican is, getting it out of being landlocked would rather simple, geographically speaking. It'd just be a matter of enlarging it with the piece of Rome between its current border, Via Crescenzio, Piazza Adriana, Via di Porta Cavalleggeri and the Tiber. It's not a sea border, but the river is navigable.
 

Albert.Nik

Banned
Afghanistan could be attached into India/Pakistan with fairly easy PODs.
All Central Asian countries are a part of the TocharianKushan Empire which also rules India could achieve this. Or them being absorbed into Russia later could as well. I think I have covered the major ones.
 
Keep Bolivia as part of Peru Federation or have it win the Pacific War.
Paraguay can be divided between Argentina and Brazil post War of Triple Alliance, or its independence could have gone differently so Asunción remains part of Río de la Plata (hence Argentina).

A surviving Russian Empire takes care of most of Asia. Mongolia as part of China. Laos as part of Thailand or Vietnam/Indochina Federation. Nepal and Bhutan part of India. Afghanistan part of Pakistan (or even better Pakistan as part of Afghanistan).

Africa is trickier unless we count large European Empires. Botswana Lesotho and Swaziland can all be part of a Greater South African Union / Federation. Mali and Senegal stay united. Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi form part of an East African Fed with Kenya and Tanzania (might happen in OTL anyways). Central Africa Rep somehow part of Republic of Congo / . Ethiopia keeps Eritrea. A Pink Map makes Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi part of Angola or Mozambique (probably the latter). Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad stump me without going with a Greater French North Africa angle.
 
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The easiest way to do this is to have some number of global Empires claiming every hectare of the Earth's surface amount them. You could probably do it with a PoD as late as 1750. Britain keeps the 13 colonies, and New Spain never splits up.

At a wild guess, Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, the Ottomans and China. Probably a Mitteleuropaisch state, quite possibly Austria/the HRE.
 
Have Ethiopia retain Eritrea through either having the Ethiopian government maintain the autonomy of the Eritrean region or have the Ethiopian Red Army successfully crush the Eritreans in Operation Red Star and solidify the Ethiopian presence there.
 
In Europe:

Edit: I cannot believe I forgot about Switzerland. And Liechtenstein. They're probably the toughest european country to either give coast or annex completely.

The Lichtenstein family actually considered themselves Austrians until they were 'exiled' to their demesne after the war. In fact, they had a long-running feud against the Czechs after the war over their property left behind there, which constituted the vast majority of their wealth. (Yeah, even more than the County of Vaduz.)

But yeah, the Swiss are a tough bunch to crack. Maybe they ask the Savoyards to be their overlord after their rebellion against the Habsburgs? They more or less have very similar flags/coat of arms in the first place.
 
Have Ethiopia retain Eritrea through either having the Ethiopian government maintain the autonomy of the Eritrean region or have the Ethiopian Red Army successfully crush the Eritreans in Operation Red Star and solidify the Ethiopian presence there.

At the very least, Ethiopia could keep a sliver of land in the far southeast of Eritrea, somehow.
 

Scaevola

Banned
Should this be in After 1900? There is no non-ASB POD that will result in no landlocked states throughout history.
 
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