Inland

As a landlocked country ( from medium is German and Middle Low German incurred " within ", which consists of "bi inside" = " within " ), the mainland regions called that are away from the sea.

In the continental context, these are therefore those areas of a continent, which have no direct access to the sea. The limitation of the interior here is not clearly defined, the transitions from inland to coastal land and foreshore are fluid.

The designation as a landlocked country varies depending on the size of a continent or a continental sub-region. So already the least, 50 km away from the coastal regions in Europe are referred to as inland (see source, " small asian Inland "), while used in Asian and American context, the term " inland " for the central regions of each continent ( s. source " inland wetlands ").

With landlocked country in the strict sense of the coastline protected by a dike is referred directly behind the dike.