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The State of Palestine, declared in 1988, is not recognised as a state by Israel but has received diplomatic recognition from 146 states. [39] The proclaimed state has no agreed territorial borders, or effective control over much of the territory that it proclaimed. [40]
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government.
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...
The label for the country: List of sovereign states; List of alternative country names; List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages; List of countries named after people; List of country-name etymologies; List of country names in various languages; List of countries that include United States in their name
The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent, [1] suitable for automated processing. Format [ edit ]
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Antarctica Map of island countries: these states are not located on any continent-sized landmass, but they are usually grouped geographically with a neighbouring continent. Determining the boundaries between the continents is generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use.