Atlantic Ocean | list of countries bordering by atlantic

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest among all other oceans has a total area of 85,133,000 km² which is almost 24% of total water bodies in the earth. It has the second longest coastline is about 111,866 kilometers. Atlantic Ocean is bordered by Africa and Europe to the east and Americas to the west. It consists of the Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Like the Pacific Ocean, it also reaches out to Antarctic Ocean in the south and Arctic Ocean in the north. It is the home of numerous marine species, including the sperm whale that is the largest living toothed animal.

The Atlantic Ocean has contributed fundamentally to the improvement and economy of neighboring nations. Other than major transoceanic transportation and correspondence routes, the Atlantic offers plenteous petroleum stores in the sedimentary rocks of the continental shelves. The Atlantic harbors petroleum and gas fields, angle, marine mammals like seals and whales, sand and rock aggregates, placer stores, poly-metallic knobs, and valuable stones. Gold stores are a mile or two submerged on the sea floor; however the stores are additionally encased in shake that must be mined through. As of now, there is no financially savvy path to mine or dig out gold from the sea to make a benefit. Different global settlements endeavor to diminish contamination caused by ecological dangers, for example, oil slicks, marine flotsam and jetsam, and the burning of dangerous squanders at sea.

Atmosphere is affected by the temperatures of the surface waters and water streams as well as winds. In light of the ocean’s extraordinary ability to store and discharge warm, oceanic atmospheres are more direct and have less outrageous regular varieties than inland atmospheres. Precipitation can be approximated from beach front climate information and air temperature from water temperatures.

List of countries and territories bordering the Pacific Ocean

This is a list of states and territories with a coastline on the Pacific are:

• Europe
  1. Bulgaria
  2. Croatia
  3. Cyprus
  4. Denmark
  5. Estonia
  6. Finland
  7. France
  8. Georgia
  9. Germany
  10. Greece
  11. Iceland
  12. Ireland
  13. Italy
  14. Latvia
  15. Lithuania
  16. Malta
  17. Monaco
  18. Montenegro
  19. Netherlands
  20. Northern Cyprus
  21. Norway
  22. Poland
  23. Portugal
  24. Romania
  25. Russia
  26. Slovenia
  27. Spain
  28. Sweden
  29. Turkey
  30. Ukraine
  31. United Kingdom
  32. Faroe Islands (DEN)
  33. Gibraltar (UK)
  34. Guernsey (UK)
  35. Isle of Man (UK)
  36. Jersey (UK)
• Africa
  1. Algeria
  2. Angola
  3. Benin
  4. Cameroon
  5. Cape Verde
  6. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  7. Egypt
  8. Equatorial Guinea
  9. Gabon
  10. Gambia
  11. Ghana
  12. Guinea
  13. Guinea-Bissau
  14. Ivory Coast
  15. Liberia
  16. Libya
  17. Mauritania
  18. Morocco
  19. Namibia
  20. Nigeria
  21. Republic of the Congo
  22. São Tomé and Príncipe
  23. Senegal
  24. Sierra Leone
  25. South Africa
  26. Togo
  27. Tunisia
  28. Bouvet Island (NOR)
  29. Canary Islands (ESP)
  30. Madeira (PRT)
  31. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)
  32. Western Sahara (claimed by MAR)
• Asia
  1. Cyprus
  2. Egypt
  3. Georgia
  4. Israel
  5. Lebanon
  6. Russia
  7. Syria
  8. Turkey
  9. Abkhazia
  10. Gaza Strip
  11. Northern Cyprus (CYP)
• South America
  1. Argentina
  2. Brazil
  3. Chile
  4. Colombia
  5. Guyana
  6. Suriname
  7. Uruguay
  8. Venezuela
  9. Falkland Islands (UK)
  10. French Guiana (FRA)
  11. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)
• North and Central America
  1. Belize
  2. Canada
  3. Costa Rica
  4. Guatemala
  5. Honduras
  6. Mexico
  7. Nicaragua
  8. Panama
  9. United States
  10. Bermuda (UK)
  11. Greenland (DEN)
  12. Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FRA)
• Caribbean
  1. Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Bahamas
  3. Barbados
  4. Cuba
  5. Dominica
  6. Dominican Republic
  7. Grenada
  8. Haiti
  9. Jamaica
  10. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  11. Saint Lucia
  12. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  13. Trinidad and Tobago
  14. Aruba (NED)
  15. Bonaire (NED)
  16. British Virgin Islands (UK)
  17. Cayman Islands (UK)
  18. Curaçao (NED)
  19. Guadeloupe (FRA)
  20. Martinique (FRA)
  21. Montserrat (UK)
  22. Saba (NED)
  23. Puerto Rico (USA)
  24. Saint Barthélemy (FRA)
  25. Sint Maarten (NED)
  26. Saint Martin (FRA)
  27. int Eustatius (NED)
  28. Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
  29. United States Virgin Islands (USA)
  30. Anguilla (UK)