Asia has 12 landlocked countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Laos, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Syria is located in Western Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Jordan is almost entirely land-locked and only has a small ( 27‌km ) marine coast to the Red Sea, cantered on the port of Aqaba. Azerbaijan has a coastline of 713‌km on the Caspian Sea.