Countries, Boarders and Coastlines

COUNTRIES

• We said that people lives on large pieces of land called continents.
• Many people would live together in an area, and that area would then be called a country.
• A country is an area of land that has its own government – meaning that it has leaders to look after its people.

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BOARDERS

• A country can have other countries, also called neighbours, all around it.
• These countries are separated by boarders.
• Boarders are lines on a map that we draw to show where a country starts and where it ends. In real life, there are no lines on the land.

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Boarder lines

COASTLINES AND LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES

• Sometimes countries would be next to the sea.
• The place where the sea and the land meet is called the coastline.
• But sometimes, a country will have only other countries around it. These type of countries we call landlocked countries.

COASTLINE

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY