Bridge and Tunnel Borders

Qatar's an island now?

Qatar which isn't an island and shares a land border with Saudi Arabia?

I did the same for Scandinavian bridge

diva again bringing to bear his unique expertise on Asia.

There is a project for a bridge to connect Saudi Arabia with Egypt.

I wonder how long it would take to stop the Earth's rotation completely and not cause massive waves and general destruction from inertia. The heat energy alone created by that genocidal jerk would cause catastrophic problems.

Saudi arabia is actually digging a trench along the Qatar border, trying to make it into an island. It would be interesting to see how it would affect things once they finnish.

They not Finnish, they Arabic! ;)

I looked up the Saudi canal Folgore mentioned. Found this..

"The proposal includes building resorts with private beaches... and a dumping ground for nuclear waste."

Yeah that checks out. I remember driving past that huge green park in Riyadh covered in white dust because it was built right next to a gigantic concrete factory.

North Korea & South Korea?

You could walk to China from South Korea and then walk to North Korea.

You couldn't walk from any landlocked country to any other country, or vice versa, unless those countries already had a land border. Although, it would be possible in a few cases where a lake was previously in the way, like Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan.

It seems like it would be something in the Mediterranean, because if we drop the general sea level, the Mediterranean would stop draining once the general level dropped past the land connecting Spain and Morocco. So my guess is Malta and Cyprus.

Please I need the actual answer to this haha! Mediterranean would be two countries with Cyprus and Malta and Mr Font said it was just one exception.

Still waiting for this answer

Because?

Sri Lanka and India used to be connected by a natural land bridge. They're in the process of building another causeway connecting Bahrain and Qatar. You could probably connect the Philippines to Malaysia or Indonesia but as both are archipelagos that wouldn't make much sense. Yemen is very close to Djibouti and Eritrea; but there's not a lot of commerce going between these countries. Malta might be possible to connect to Italy but Malta is tiny and I'm sure the cost/benefit analysis wouldn't be favorable. Northern Cyprus to Turkey might be another possibility; but I'm sure the Turks don't want to get further embroiled in the JetPunk argument over whether or not Cyprus is in Asia.

Yes, I have to confess that I hadn't thought the implications of "no physical or river border" through. There are plenty of ongoing cross-border tunnel (and a few bridge) projects in my part of the world, but almost all of these countries have some sort of physical contact already.

Maybe a truly new one will be a tunnel between Finland and Estonia? It has been discussed for about a decade. Another one, as you mentioned, is a link between Spain and Morocco.

Apart from that... hmmm.... There are some Carribean islands that could be connected (as well as Trinidad with Venezuela) but I assume that there's too few inhabitants and too little cash for something like that.

I took a ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki. Then I drove to Turku to take the ferry from there to Stockholm because it was about 1/10th the price of taking the one from Helsinki.

Not quite sole connection.

But countries for which the only connections are via a bridge or tunnel, yes.

What's the distinction? There is a second crossing (also a bridge) between Singapore and Malaysia. So the Johor Causeway isn't the only connection between the two, but all connections are via a bridge (that is not over a river).

Bhutan? The Himalayas get in the way.