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Steamboat connections in Ambon Residence, Dutch East Indies, in 1915. Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Dutch: Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Indonesian: Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.
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Spain Morocco: Ceuta and Melilla are administered by Spain as autonomous cities. After an incident on Perejil Island in 2002, both countries agreed to return to the status quo. [3] Chagos Archipelago United Kingdom Mauritius: The United Kingdom de facto administers the archipelago as the British Indian Ocean Territory. Mauritius claims the ...
The West New Guinea dispute (1950–1962), also known as the West Irian dispute, was a diplomatic and political conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia over the territory of Dutch New Guinea. While the Netherlands had ceded sovereignty over most of the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia on 27 December 1949 following an independence struggle ...
Netherlands Outline of the Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlands Antilles Outline of the Netherlands Antilles – Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) New Caledonia Outline of New Caledonia – Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies (French community sui generis)
Kingdom of the Netherlands (official, English), Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (official, Dutch), Nederland (Dutch), Holland (pars pro toto, English, Dutch and other languages), Batavia (former and poetic, English, Dutch and other languages), Pays-Bas (French, used alongside "Netherlands" as names in the two official languages of the Int'l Olympic ...
Topographical map of New Guinea. The shape of New Guinea is often compared to that of a bird-of-paradise (indigenous to the island), and this results in the usual names for the two extremes of the island: the Bird's Head Peninsula in the northwest (Vogelkop in Dutch, Kepala Burung in Indonesian; also known as the Doberai Peninsula), and the ...