coastline it lost to Chile in the 1800s.
For more than 100 years, landlocked Bolivia has maintained a naval fleet in
Lake Titicaca, some 12,470 feet (3,800 m) above sea level, high in the
Andes mountains. South America's poorest country lost its Pacific coastline
to Chile during the 19th-century War of the Pacific. So Bolivia's navy has
been relegated to more mundane tasks, such as chasing down smugglers and
delivering supplies to remote areas.
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[in addition, Switzerland has a navy too, although it has no coastline!]
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