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The de facto boundaries of a country are defined by the area that its government is actually able to enforce its laws in, and to defend against encroachments by other countries that may also claim the same territory de jure. The Durand Line is an example of a de facto boundary.
An example of the difference is when the United Kingdom recognized the Soviet state de facto in 1921, but de jure only in 1924. Another example is the state of Israel in 1948, whose government was immediately recognized de facto by the United States and three days later de jure by the Soviet Union. Another example is the Republic of Indonesia ...
Republics with an elected head of state, where the head of state is also the head of the government. Examples include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Ghana and Indonesia. People's republic: Republics that include countries like China and Vietnam that are de jure governed for and by the people.
In other cases, two or more partially recognised states may claim the same territorial area, with each of them de facto in control of a portion of it (for example, North Korea and South Korea, or the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China). Entities that are recognised by only a minority of the world's states usually ...
Many different countries have been claimed to be de facto one-party states, with differing levels of agreement between scholars, although most agree that the African continent is marked by this political system. [24] [25] [26] Below are just a few examples of governments that have been claimed to have single party rule due to political ...
There are many examples of de facto consolidation of a standard by market forces and competition, in a two-sided market, after a dispute. Examples: Alternating current and direct current in the war of the currents. VHS over Betamax in the videotape format war. Blu-ray and HD DVD during the high definition optical disc format war.
Britain's Conservative government relaxed planning rules Tuesday and lifted restrictions that effectively banned the building of new onshore wind farms in England. Rules introduced in 2015 by then ...
De jure sovereignty refers to the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty refers to the factual ability to do so. This can become an issue of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and reside within the same organization.