Article misses the important and interesting question of which countries/empires it’s actually true of. From a quick look at a map, I suspect it must still be

Article misses the important and interesting question of which countries/empires it’s actually true of. From a quick look at a map, I suspect it must still be true of Britain and France, which maintain territories (albeit small) in the Indian and Pacific oceans in addition to their homelands. It doesn’t seem to be true of the US, though, which has a huge gap across the Atlantic and Eurasia from Puerto Rico to Guam.