Coasts

thumb|Sunrise on the [[Jersey Shore coastline at Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S.]] thumb|Rugged coastline of the West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast Region of New Zealand A view of the plain near Dikili in Turkey|thumb thumb|Southeast coast of Greenland thumb|Escorca coast, [[Serra de Tramuntana (Balearic Islands)]]

part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore

thumb|Ancient Carthage from about 323 BCE, an example of a thalassocracy.

Coastal region in the north of Spain

Occupied territory in Central America

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() is an Italian word which means , ultimately derived from Latin , through Ligurian . It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria (the Genoa region in northwestern Italy) in the form , then shortened in English.

counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length

geographic region of Croatia

Advertising term for Austrian Gorizia and Istria

type of flood

coastal area in the northeast of Oman

locality

popular tourist resort

stretch of coastline in Senegal