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The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at ...
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Gallery of flags of dependent territories. 26 languages. ... Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands. Flag of Puerto Rico. Flag of the U.S. Virgin Islands. See also.
Japan maintains a claim to the three islands of Kunashir, Iturup, and Shikotan, and the Habomai rocks, together called the Northern Territories. In addition, the Japanese government claims that the Kuril Islands, other than the Northern Territories and South Karafuto, are undetermined areas under international law because the San Francisco ...
A horizontal bicolour of red and white. 1641–1854: Flag used in Dejima: A horizontal tricolor of red, white and blue. 1603–1868: Naval ensign of the Tokugawa Shogunate. [1] A bicolour flag consisting of three bands; white, black, and white. 1905–1910: Flag of the Resident General of Korea. A blue ensign with the Flag of Japan in the ...
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals , coats of arms , and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields.
Green with a centered cross of three equal bands - the vertical part is yellow (hoist side), black, and white and the horizontal part is yellow (top), black, and white; superimposed in the center of the cross is a red disk bearing a Sisserou parrot, unique to Dominica, encircled by 10 green, five-pointed stars edged in yellow.
Northern Territories (北方領土, Hoppō Ryōdo), a term used by Japan in territorial disputes to refer to the parts of Kuril Islands claimed by Japan and occupied by Russia. Historical name of part of Ghana, a former British Empire protectorate, itself divided into the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of modern Ghana