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The list of bonded guano island claims mentions "Islands in Caribbean Sea not named" bonded on this date, but it is unknown to what this is referring. [4] no change to map: December 11, 1868 Serrana Bank was claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Colombia has claimed it throughout its history. Caribbean Sea: March 3, 1869
The official name of the country at the time was the Republic of Colombia. [60] Historians adopted the term "Gran Colombia" to distinguish this republic from the present-day Republic of Colombia, which began using the same name in 1863. [61] Map showing results of the Adams-Onís Treaty.
Gran Colombia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡɾaŋ koˈlombja] ⓘ, "Great Colombia"), also known as Greater Colombia and officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia), was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern North America (aka southern Central America) from 1819 to 1831.
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
Otherwise the District of Columbia currently has no counties or county equivalents. The former counties of the District of Columbia are: Alexandria County, D.C. (1791–1846) retroceded to Virginia becoming Alexandria County, Virginia. Washington County, D.C. Abolished in 1871 and consolidated with the District of Columbia. Under the current ...
To simplify maintaining the table, numbers of divisions are only specified where a country has around thirty or fewer instances; for example, as of 2010, the twelve qarqe (counties) of Albania. For numbers greater than thirty, the number rounded down to the nearest ten (or, in the case of thousands, the nearest hundred) is given, suffixed by a ...
Broome and Tioga counties weren't on the map when the United States of America was born. Here's how they evolved. Spanning Time: How Broome, Tioga counties emerged from New York's first county maps
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.