Country of transit

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Equivalents

Tranzitní zeměTransitlandPaese di transitoKraj tranzytu

Related terms

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.