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List of political and geographic borders

List of political and geographic borders is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of political and geographic borders rather than just read about it. In short: Boundaries Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.

List of political and geographic borders — main illustration
List of political and geographic borders — illustration

Key takeaways

  • List of political and geographic borders belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect List of political and geographic borders to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of List of political and geographic borders from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Boundaries Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered.

Continents (Notes: Dependencies and islands remote from continental land masses are not considered and are excluded from this list section; thus only continental land borders are considered. The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a country that crosses a continental land border

Countries (Notes: Dependencies are excluded from this section. See below. Only land boundaries are considered; maritime boundaries are excluded; see the List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries. Disputed territories are not considered, other than the inclusion by necessity, in a neutral fashion, of Western Sahara.)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a sea (or other body of water)'s parent ocean; also it may represent a dependency's parent country (Note: All official and unofficial claims by countries and/or governments on the continent of Antarctica are excluded from this section list.)

Dependencies (Note: This section lists only dependencies with land boundaries)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a sea (or other body of water)'s parent ocean

Oceans

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a dependency's parent country (Note: Seas are excluded from this list section.)

Seas

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a dependency's parent country (Note: This section only includes large bodies of water that are designated as a "sea" by a large portion of geographers worldwide.)

See also List of artificial islands List of countries and territories by land and maritime borders List of countries and territories by land borders List of divided islands Lists of islands List of islands by area List of islands by population

External links CIA - The World Factbook Google Maps HRW World Atlas Joshua Calder's World Island Info TopoZone World Maps

Illustrations

List of political and geographic borders: Robinson projection map .
Robinson projection map .

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of political and geographic borders

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of political and geographic borders claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of political and geographic borders before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of political and geographic borders ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of political and geographic borders

In research
List of political and geographic borders appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses List of political and geographic borders in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
List of political and geographic borders is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Border-related lists, Borders by country, Geography-related lists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for List of political and geographic borders outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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How to study List of political and geographic borders in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what List of political and geographic borders means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain List of political and geographic borders out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is List of political and geographic borders in simple terms?

Boundaries Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.

Why does List of political and geographic borders matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study List of political and geographic borders?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on List of political and geographic borders.

Tags

  • Border-related lists
  • Borders by country
  • Geography-related lists
  • Lists of countries by geography

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