List of countries that border only one other country


This is a list of sovereign state that have a land border with only one other. Some on this list have a maritime border with additional countries. Some which are not listed here have no land border but do have a maritime border with a single other state; an example is Sri Lanka.
There are generally three arrangements by which a state would have a single land border:
Territory leased or ceded by one country to another for perpetual use, but not in sovereignty, such as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, or memorials, such as the American Cemetery in France, do not constitute true territorial borders because the land occupied remains a formal part of the host country.
This list is based on the Correlates of War Direct Contiguity data set, with maritime causeways, bridges and artificial islands not being counted.

States bordering only one other sovereign state

This section considers only sovereign states, not constituent countries like Wales and Scotland, which border only England, or dependent territories such as Gibraltar, which has an international border with Spain but is not legally part of the United Kingdom.
Also not counted are borders on artificial islands such as Passport Island, which is the only land border of Bahrain.

Causeways, bridges, and tunnels

Often called fixed crossings or fixed links, transportation corridors constructed to cross bodies of water without any intermittent connections such as ferries or ships may be between different states. These may be considered artificial "persistent" borderpoints for land vehicles or pedestrians, but are not typically considered land borders given their need for continuous operation and maintenance, as well as their ease of volume control or closure by either state. Two countries are islands and have no land borders, but maintain fixed borderpoints with other nations.
CountryLand neighbourBorderpoint neighbourNotes----
CountryLand neighbourBorderpoint neighbourNotesBahrain

Dependent territories

In some cases, a dependent territory of one nation borders another nation.
TerritorySovereigntyNeighbourBorder lengthNotes
TerritorySovereigntyNeighbourkmNotes
Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Integral parts of sovereign states

In most cases, an integral part of a larger country shares a border with another nation.
TerritorySovereigntyNeighbourBorder lengthNotes----
TerritorySovereigntyNeighbourÅland

Historical

Many countries historically had only one neighbour. Some no longer exist while others now have either no land borders or borders with more than one nation due to border changes.