But they have not witnessed the anything-but-routine sleuthing required of Anastasie Nagué as she plays her part in preventing disease in a new, three-pronged humanitarian emergency affecting landlocked Chad.
That is half the rate of progress of those driving just within neighbouring coastal states.Enterprises regard landlocked trading partners as unreliable, since transit states can interrupt commerce.
He calculates that Bolivia's GDP would be a fifth higher if it had kept its access to the sea.The success of the few rich landlocked countries offers little hope to poorer ones.
If trade flowed freely, being landlocked would be no impediment to growth.
Botswana, a middle-income landlocked country, exports diamonds, which are shipped by air.Unfortunately, countries like Bolivia cannot move next to Germany or discover diamonds.
The flow of people and ideas that brought innovation to maritime countries largely bypassed landlocked ones.
They have little incentive to build infrastructure that would mainly help their neighbours.Border officials in both landlocked and transit countries often extract bribes and cause delays.
Small and landlocked, Burundi depends heavily on them, but its civil war has extended into their territory and politics.
Leaderless, many of the Uzbeks try to keep a low profile.A minority across Kyrgyzstan, a poor country landlocked between powerful neighbours, Uzbeks are concentrated in the south.
The Palestinian Authority will still be a "Humpty Dumpty", as Aaron David Miller puts it, an intermittently connected spiderweb of zones of authority across the arid, landlocked, overcrowded West Bank, along with a separate Hamas-run exclave in Gaza where the PA's authority is not even recognised.But here's the thing.
This is a measure of progress in the poor and landlocked former Soviet republic.
