Unless this is a joke, you’ve missed the point.
Melilla and Ceuta for Morroco; not Gibraltar
Does the UN buffer zone around Kokkina count as a break? If so, Cyprus has three.
Cyprus is a complicated situation, what with the northern part occupied by Turkey but claimed by Cyrpus, the two sovereign British bases and the buffer zone. It looked like two to me in a couple different ways, but I could be wrong.
East of Akrotiri, Akrotiri to the Kokkina enclave, east of Kokkina.
OK, I missed that enclave. So Cyprus could be either 2 or 3. Cyprus claimes the entire island except for the two British bases, so that would be two. Defacto, with the Turkish occupation, it’s three.
Croatia.
It’s not contiguous.
Check out Dubrovnik. Or does that count as exclave?
Re: two coast countries:
Not
Exclave. It’s not connected to the main part of Croatia.
There’s a strategy board game called Diplomacy which simulates a war in 1900 Europe. Players move armies and fleets around the board and, for that purpose, have to submit their moves in writing to an adjudicator. Some “provinces” (squares) on the board have several non-contiguous coastline which are distinguished by suffixes to the province name. IIRC, those were Spain (Mediterranean and Atlantic, interrupted by the Portuguese coast), Bulgaria (Mediterranean and Black Sea) and St Petersburg (Baltic and Arctic seas).
France also owns a number of overseas territories (French Guyana, French Polynesia, Réunion and a couple of others) with coastlines significantly increase its count for the purposes of this thread. The same goes for the UK, of course, and any other country that possesses islands in addition to its mainland.
Re Croatia: Its coastlines are interrupted by a few miles of Bosnian territory around the town of Neum, so it should count.
The part of Croatia south of that interruption is not connected to the rest of Croatia. So it’s an exclave and thus has its own coast count (1).
It is. The USA doesn’t have diplomatic relations with (i.e., an embassy in) Bhutan, but it still recognises it as an independent country.
So how does Russia belong? What am I missing?
It has a Baltic coast for its mainland, another Baltic coast for Kaliningrad, and a very, very long coast along the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
Speaking of Russia: If you treat Crimea as a part of Russia (which is not the position of the international community, but it corresponds to who’s exercising actual control there), then Ukraine becomes a two-coast country.
You can also count Cuba as a two-coast country if you consider its coastline interrupted by the Guantanamo Bay lease, which cuts across the entry to the bay so the northern shore of the bay is disconnected from the rest of Cuba’s coastline.
Kaliningrad doesn’t count as it’s not contiguous.
It’s Baltic, Black sea, and one massive coast for the rest.
I thought we excluded Kalingrad as an exclave.
True, I stand corrected.