Four countries sit close together in the eastern Mediterranean region. Only two of them actually touch that sea.
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Who Touches the Mediterranean
- Lebanon and Syria both have real Mediterranean coastlines, on the sea’s eastern shore.
- Jordan is landlocked apart from a short stretch of Red Sea coast at Aqaba. It has no Mediterranean coast at all.
- Iraq’s only sea coast sits on the Persian Gulf, far from the Mediterranean.
- This makes Lebanon and Syria the only Mediterranean-bordering countries among the four.
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Which Countries Actually Border the Mediterranean
- The two that do Lebanon and Syria genuinely have Mediterranean coastlines.
- The two that don’t Jordan’s only sea access is the Red Sea via Aqaba. Iraq’s only coast is on the Persian Gulf.
- Answer: (c) 3 and 4 only.
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