Why is Armenia considered a landlocked country?

Armenia is considered a landlocked country because it is an independent sovereign state that lacks direct access to an ocean or to a sea that is not landlocked.1

Located in Transcaucasia, Armenia is entirely surrounded by land and neighboring countries: it is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan to the north and east, and by Iran and Turkey to the southeast and west. While the country features inland bodies of water such as Lake Sevan, these do not provide the direct maritime access required to avoid the landlocked classification.213