A landlocked country is a country that does not have territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins. Generally, being landlocked creates political and economic disadvantages that having access to international waters would avoid. For this reason, nations large and small throughout history have fought to gain access to open waters, even at great expense in wealth, bloodshed, and political capital.The economic disadvantages of being landlocked can be alleviated or aggravated depending on degree of development, surrounding trade routes and freedom of trade, language barriers, and other considerations.
Here are the landlocked countries in Africa.
| No. | Country | Area |
| 1. | Botswana | 582,000 km2 |
| 2. | Burkina Faso | 274,222 km2 |
| 3. | Burundi | 27,834 km2 |
| 4. | Central African Republic | 622,984 km2 |
| 5. | Chad | 1,284,000 km2 |
| 6. | Eswatini | 17,364 km2 |
| 7. | Ethiopia | 1,104,300 km2 |
| 8. | Lesotho | 30,355 km2 |
| 9. | Malawi | 118,484 km2 |
| 10. | Mali | 1,240,192 km2 |
| 11. | Niger | 1,267,000 km2 |
| 12. | Rwanda | 26,338 km2 |
| 13. | South Sudan | 644,329 km2 |
| 14. | Uganda | 241,038 km2 |
| 15. | Zambia | 752,612 km2 |
| 16. | Zimbabwe | 390,757 km2 |
