Indian Ocean countries

Its east coast is on the Indian Ocean. Cape Agulhas, its southern tip, is where the Indian Ocean officially meets the Atlantic.

Faces Madagascar across the Mozambique Channel.

Includes Zanzibar, once the centre of a trading empire of the Omani sultans.

Mombasa is the biggest port in East Africa.

Has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, on the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

On the Gulf of Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea.

The fourth-largest island in the world.

Over a hundred islands, some of them granite, left behind when India broke away from Africa.

The lowest country in the world, with an average height about a metre and a half above sea level.

On the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, as well as the Red Sea.

Its long coast on the Arabian Sea made it a sea power, with an empire reaching to Zanzibar.

Mostly on the Persian Gulf, but Fujairah is on the Gulf of Oman.

Its south-eastern coast, with the port of Chabahar, is on the Gulf of Oman.

Karachi is on the Arabian Sea.

The ocean is named after it. The Indian subcontinent splits it into the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

The Ganges and Brahmaputra meet the Bay of Bengal in the world’s largest river delta.

On the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea.

Its west coast, with Phuket, is on the Andaman Sea. The Gulf of Thailand, on its other side, counts as Pacific.

The Strait of Malacca separates it from Sumatra.

Sumatra and Java face the Indian Ocean. The rest of the country is on the Pacific side.

Its south coast faces the Timor Sea and Australia.

Its west and south coasts, from Perth round to Adelaide, face the Indian Ocean, or the Southern Ocean, depending on who draws the line.