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The second number is the total number of distinct countries or territories that the country or territory borders. In this instance, if the country or territory shares two or more maritime boundaries with the same country or territory and the boundaries are unconnected, the boundaries are only counted once.
Independence referendums occurred on 4 November 2018 (56.4% voting against and 43.6% voting in favor), as well as on 4 October 2020 (53.3% voting against and 46.7% voting in favor). A third and final one held in December 2021 rejected independence (96.5% voting against and 3.5% voting in favor).
[3] [4] [38] This meteor strike is often linked to Estonian folklore which has it that Saaremaa was a place where the sun at one point "went to rest". Nazi Germany leadership considered Iceland to be the Thule area and the birthplace of the ancient Aryan race , with senior Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler even sending an expedition team to Iceland ...
Also included is the number of unique sovereign states [a] that a country or territory shares as neighbors. If the number is higher due to multiple dependencies or unrecognized states bordering the state, the larger number is shown in brackets.
Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is situated in the northern group of the archipelago, approximately 25 mi (40 km) to the east of Nuku Hiva , at 8°54′S 139°33′W / 8.900°S 139.550°W / -8.900; -139
A boundary is a line. The terms "frontier", "borderland" and "border" are zones of indeterminate width. Such areas form the outermost part of a country. Borders are bounded on one side by a national boundary. [7] There are variations in the specific terminology of maritime boundary agreements which have been concluded since the 1970s.
Kiribati consists of 32 atolls and one island in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the contiguous United States.The islands are scattered such that Kiribati has territory located in each of the four hemispheres.
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.With an area of 1,610,000 km 2 (620,000 sq mi), it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th century.