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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "This is a list of countries located on more than one continent, known as transcontinental states (or more properly as intercontinental states). While there are many countries with non-contiguous overseas territories fitting this definition, only a limited number of countries have territory straddling an overland continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Europe and Asia.The boundary between Europe and Asia is purely conventional, and several conventions have remained in use well into the 20th century, but the now-prevalent convention, used for the purposes of this page, follows the Caucasus northern chain, the Ural River and the Urals. It has been in use by some cartographers since about 1850.This convention results in a couple of Transcaucasian countries finding themselves almost entirely in "Asia", with a few small enclaves or districts technically in "Europe". These small mountainous nation states show no obvious signs of occupying two continents each. Notwithstanding these anomalies, this list of transcontinental or intercontinental states respects the convention that Europe and Asia are full continents rather than subcontinents or component landmasses of the larger Eurasian continent. Asian–European boundary: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey African–Asian boundary: EgyptColombia and Panama are generally considered to be entirely within South America and North America, respectively.Listed further below, separately, are countries with distant non-contiguous parts (overseas territories) on separate continents."@en }

• Q1323642 abstract "This is a list of countries located on more than one continent, known as transcontinental states (or more properly as intercontinental states). While there are many countries with non-contiguous overseas territories fitting this definition, only a limited number of countries have territory straddling an overland continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Europe and Asia.The boundary between Europe and Asia is purely conventional, and several conventions have remained in use well into the 20th century, but the now-prevalent convention, used for the purposes of this page, follows the Caucasus northern chain, the Ural River and the Urals. It has been in use by some cartographers since about 1850.This convention results in a couple of Transcaucasian countries finding themselves almost entirely in "Asia", with a few small enclaves or districts technically in "Europe". These small mountainous nation states show no obvious signs of occupying two continents each. Notwithstanding these anomalies, this list of transcontinental or intercontinental states respects the convention that Europe and Asia are full continents rather than subcontinents or component landmasses of the larger Eurasian continent. Asian–European boundary: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey African–Asian boundary: EgyptColombia and Panama are generally considered to be entirely within South America and North America, respectively.Listed further below, separately, are countries with distant non-contiguous parts (overseas territories) on separate continents.".