Country of transit

Equivalents

Tranzitní země — Transitland — Paese di transito — Kraj tranzytu

Related terms

• refugees and migrants (come through it to) their country of destination
• (antonym of) Country of origin

Definition

Transit countries are countries that migrants cross on their way to their country of destination.

Source: https://assembly.coe.int/

Synonyms and variants

• transit country

Examples

The Hungarian government also shut down train service to Germany in an apparent effort to discourage refugees from using Hungary as a transit country on their way to seek asylum there.

Source: https://www.vox.com/

Note

The term transit country has a very low frequency in the corpus. This should be considered when reading this entry.