Previous Year Question

A landlocked country is a country that has no direct coastline or access to an open sea or ocean. Among the given options, only Bolivia is landlocked.

Bolivia is situated in the central-western part of South America and shares its borders with Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru. It currently has no maritime coastline.

South America has only two landlocked sovereign countries—Bolivia and Paraguay. In contrast, Suriname and Uruguay have coastlines towards the Atlantic Ocean, while Peru has a long coastline along the Pacific Ocean.

Historically, Bolivia had access to the Pacific coast, but following the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), its coastal territory came under Chilean control and Bolivia became landlocked.