landlocked

English

Landlocked countries

Alternative forms

• land-locked

Etymology

From land +‎ locked (i.e. "locked-in by land on all sides").

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlændlɑkt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlændlɒkt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: land‧locked

Adjective

landlocked (not comparable)

1. (geography) Of a country, region, etc., surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea).

   Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.

   • 2020, Eunice Mei Feng Seng, Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development‎^[1], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [2], columns 1, 2:

     Located in Kowloon, with an area of 9.36 km², Wong Tai Sin is the only district in Hong Kong that is totally landlocked. It has a population of 420,183 (2011) and a high density of 44.891/km².

2. Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon.
4. (US, real estate) Of a property or parcel, surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.
   • 2005, Washington Legislative Reference Bureau, State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2005-2006‎^[3], page 610:

     An easement of necessity, said the court, may be provided when property is landlocked and the owner needs access to that property from a public highway.

   • 2005, Thomas J. McEvoy, Owning and Managing Forests: A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters‎^[4], page 49:

     In some states, the law allows for easements by necessity, especially in circumstances where a property is landlocked.

   • 2006, Real Estate Principles‎^[5], Rockwell publishing, page 114:

     For example, if a property is landlocked (entirely surrounded by other privately owned land) and has no access to a public street...

Translations

surrounded by land

• Azerbaijani: dənizə çıxışı olmayan
• Basque: kostagabe, itsasgabe
• Bulgarian: затворен (залив) (zatvoren (zaliv))
• Catalan: sense litoral
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內陸 / 内陆 (zh) (nèilù)

• Czech: vnitrozemský (cs)
• Danish: indlands-
• Dutch: binnen- (nl), door (nl) land (nl) omgeven (nl)
• Finnish: sisämaa- (fi)
• French: enclavé (fr), sans littoral
• Georgian: ზღვაზე გასასვლელის არმქონე (zɣvaze gasasvlelis armkone), ხმელეთით გარშემორტყმული (xmeletit garšemorṭq̇muli), ჩაკეტილი (čaḳeṭili), დახშული (daxšuli)
• German: (landlocked country) Binnenstaat (de), (otherwise) binnenkontinental, landumschlossen (de), küstenlos, ohne Zugang zum Meer
• Greek: ηπειρωτικός (el) (ipeirotikós)
• Hungarian: tengerrel nem határos
• Icelandic: landlukt
• Irish: talamhiata
• Japanese: 内陸 (ja) (nairiku)
• Korean: 내륙 (naeryuk)
• Macedonian: континента́лен (kontinentálen)
• Māori: taikore
• Norwegian: innlands-
• Polish: śródlądowy (pl)
• Portuguese: encravado (pt)
• Romanian: continental (ro), închis (terestru)
• Russian: окружённый су́шей (okružónnyj súšej), континента́льный (ru) (kontinentálʹnyj)
• Scots: landlockt, landlockit
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: континенталан

  Latin: kontinentalan (sh)

• Spanish: sin litoral, sin salida / acceso al mar, interior (es)
• Swedish: kustlös
• Thai: ไม่มีทางออกสู่ทะเล (mâi mee taang òk sòo tálay)
• Welsh: tirgloëdig, tirgaeëdig

living in freshwater

• German: Süßwasser-

having no access to a public road

• German: ohne Zugang zu öffentlichen Wegen (descriptive)

See also

• (without watercourse frontage): backblock
• (without public road access): easement, ransom strip

References

• “landlocked”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.