word | | Disputes - international |
| claimed | Vanuatu | Matthew and Hunter Islands east of New Caledonia claimed by Vanuatu and France |
| claimed | Vietnam | ... of the China-Vietnam land boundary was completed in 2009; China occupies the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; Brunei claims a maritime boundary extending beyond as far as a ... |
| claimed | Wake Island | claimed by Marshall Islands |
| claimed | World | ... terrain, political fiat, or conquest, resulting in sometimes arbitrary and imposed boundaries; most maritime states have claimed limits that include territorial seas and exclusive economic zones; overlapping limits due to adjacent or ... |
| claiming | Antarctica | ... the International Whaling Commission created a sanctuary around the entire continent to deter catches by countries claiming to conduct scientific whaling; Australia has established a similar preserve in the waters around its ... |
| claiming | Iceland | ... Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; the EFTA Surveillance Authority is taking Iceland to court, claiming the country violated the EEA agreement in failing to pay minimum compensation to Icesave depositors ... |
| claiming | Venezuela | ... Venezuela; US, France, and the Netherlands recognize Venezuela's granting full effect to Aves Island, thereby claiming a Venezuelan EEZ/continental shelf extending over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea ... |
| claims | Algeria | ... relations, each nation accusing the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the ... |
| claims | Antarctica | the Antarctic Treaty freezes, and most states do not recognize, the land and maritime territorial claims made by Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom (some overlapping) for ... |
| claims | Argentina | Argentina continues to assert its claims to the UK-administered Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands in its constitution, forcibly occupying the Falklands in 1982, but in ... |
| claims | Australia | ... development zone and revenue sharing arrangement and deferred a maritime boundary; Australia asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica; Australia's 2004 submission to Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf ... |
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