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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. 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.
Argentine Antarctica [d] [r] (L/M) British Antarctic Territory [d] [r] (United Kingdom) (L/M) Peter I Island [d] (M) People's Republic of China [ab] (excluding Hong Kong and Macau, as well as Taiwan, which is claimed by the PRC.) 14 (16) 11 21 (23) Afghanistan (L) Bhutan (L) Brunei (M) [r] India (L) [r] Indonesia (M) [r] Japan (M) Kazakhstan (L ...
Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. This list gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well as the neighbouring countries and territories. The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1]
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 ...
Japan is not a party to the South China Sea issue and has no right to intervene in China-Philippines maritime matters, a spokesperson for China's embassy in Japan said on Friday. Japan's foreign ...
Korea, North – Democratic People's Republic of Korea Capital: Pyongyang: Widely recognized UN member state. [h] It claimed to be the sole legitimate government of Korea and its claim over the Liancourt Rocks was disputed by South Korea and Japan.
A 16-day undersea volcano eruption resulted in a new above-water island near Iwo Jima, Japan. It may be short-lived. A New Island Has Suddenly Appeared Near Japan—But It Might Vanish Soon
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.