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An open border is a border that enables free movement of people (and often of goods) between jurisdictions with no restrictions on movement and is lacking substantive border control. [1] [2] A border may be an open border due to intentional legislation allowing free movement of people across the border ( de jure ), or a border may be an open ...
dd/mm/yyyy. The British Overseas Territories ( BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory. [1] [2] [3] The permanently inhabited territories are delegated varying degrees of internal self-governance ...
The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia . England called the hypothetical northern route the "Northwest Passage". The desire to establish such a route motivated much of the European exploration of both coasts of North America, also known as the New World.
Canada has a highly developed mixed-market economy, [270] [271] with the world's ninth-largest economy as of 2023, and a nominal GDP of approximately US$ 2.221 trillion. [272] It is one of the world's largest trading nations, with a highly globalized economy. [273]
5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi) Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic ...
No. of land border neighbours No. of maritime boundary neighbours Total no. of unique neighbours Neighbouring countries and territories (Territories without full sovereignty in italics) (L) = share only land borders (M) = share only maritime boundaries blank = share land borders and maritime boundaries United Kingdom: 1 : 8 8 Belgium (M)
The international border between Canada and the United States, with Yukon on one side and Alaska on the other, circa 1900-1923 [1] The borders of Canada include: To the south and west: An international boundary with the United States, forming the longest shared border in the world, 8,893 km (5,526 mi); [2] (Informally referred as the 49th ...
The only land border of Denmark (proper) is that with Germany, with a length of 68 km (42 mi). Greenland, an autonomous country of the Danish Realm, also shares a border with Canada splitting Hans Island in half in which the border is 1.28 km (0.795 miles) long. The border along the territorial waters (12 nmi (22 km; 14 mi) zone) with Sweden ...