inland

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Larger than 22,000 football fields, it handles transit each year of around 267 million tonnes of goods and is used by around 20,000 seagoing vessels and 50,000 inland vessels, according to its website.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The Salton Sea — California’s largest inland lake at more than 340 square miles — has been shrinking for decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

This includes several separate strikes on the key Baltic Sea ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk as well as an attack on the nearby inland Kirishi oil refinery.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Up to 250,000 barrels per day of oil-demand losses are possible in April if inland stocks are low, they said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

This sedentary lifestyle was made possible by the diversity of resource-rich habitats available to Jomon people within a short distance of one central site: inland forests, rivers, seashores, bays, and open oceans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond