More 'doubly landlocked' countries

A doubly landlocked country is one which has no coast and only borders other landlocked countries. The only current OTL examples are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan. What other such nations might have existed? These are a couple I considered:

  • Kyrgyzstan, with an independent East Turkestan
  • CAR, with slightly different colonial borders
  • Lesotho or Swaziland, within a large Boer state of sorts
  • Bavaria, given a balkanized Germany
 
I just made a map where i colored countries based on these criteria
1. I painted countries that are not landlocked purple.
2. Countries that are landlocked but borders (one or some) non-landlocked countries were painted green.
3. Countries that are landlocked but borders no countries that are not landlocked.
Only Liechenstain and Uzbekistan are fullfill the criteria you gave.
 
A doubly landlocked country is one which has no coast and only borders other landlocked countries. The only current OTL examples are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan. What other such nations might have existed? These are a couple I considered:

  • Kyrgyzstan, with an independent East Turkestan
  • CAR, with slightly different colonial borders
  • Lesotho or Swaziland, within a large Boer state of sorts
  • Bavaria, given a balkanized Germany
Some suggestions.
- Independant Karalpak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakalpakstan
 
I thought there would be several doubly landlocked territories in a balkanized Germany (using the German Empire states). But there isn't. Bavaria, Wurttemberg and Baden all have borders with Prussia, which is not landlocked.
 

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And there is also the Rhine, Danube, and Rhur rivers which you could take a ship from Central Germany to England if you really want a sailing trip.
 
We had a thread about this some years ago in soc.history.what-if. As I stated there:

"...if an independent East Turkestan Republic had been established, then both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikstan would be doubly landlocked (Tajikstan almost borders Pakistan, but not quite; the narrow Wakhan Corridor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakhan_Corridor separates them)." http://soc.history.what-if.narkive.com/m61lyWhm/challenge-more-doubly-landlocked-countries

In the same thread I also suggested "Nagorno-Karabakh if it were independent *de jure* and Karakalpakstan."

And I noted that while the paucity of doubly-landlocked countries nowadays may seem surprising, "there have been times when there were *no* doubly landlocked countries, e.g., from the time of the unification of Germany in
1871 until the end of World War I brought about the demise of Lichtenstein's neighbor Austria-Hungary with its Adriatic coast, and again between 1938 and 1945 when Lichtenstein's neighbor Austria was part of Nazi Germany and
Uzbekistan part of the Soviet Union."
 
- Paraguay when bordering independent Greater Mato Grosso
- South Sudan in a TL where the Brits keep Port Sudan during decolonization for similar reasons as the British Aden often seen in 20th century TLs... oh, wait, no, SS still borders non-landlocked Kenia. Turns out double landlocking in Africa is awfully hard because colonialism worked inwards from the coasts.
- Independent rump Luang Prabang, a South East Asian Liechtenstein of sorts
- Independent Szeklerland in a balkanized Romania
- A West-Berlinesque Bratislava city state...
- ...or simply West Vienna. Note that West Berlin's legal status was kinda weird, it's not as simple as "it's in the FRG". You could have Vienna end up in a similar situation. Maybe you could even crank things up to eleven and have a triply landlocked Vienna Old Town, since that one somehow was in neither of the four sectors.
- Independent Gagauzia
- de facto: Transnistria if the Ukraine situation really turns to shit and they end up with an Odessa People's Republic
 
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A doubly landlocked country is one which has no coast and only borders other landlocked countries. The only current OTL examples are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan. What other such nations might have existed?

Independent Slovakia in a world where Poland does not get the corridor (and Subcarpathia separates her from Ukraine).
 
A doubly landlocked country is one which has no coast and only borders other landlocked countries. ...

  • Kyrgyzstan, with an independent East Turkestan
  • CAR, with slightly different colonial borders
  • Lesotho or Swaziland, within a large Boer state of sorts
  • Bavaria, given a balkanized Germany

Up to 1600, even 1700 half of Europe would fall into this category. Then the nation-states got so awfully big. I mean, it's hard to imagine a country more landlocked then Switserland, but three of its four neighbors: Germany, France and Italy stretch oit from the alps all the way to the coast. Same with Czechia being a neighbor of Poland.
 
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