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United States Spain: $100,000 USD 1900 467 km² 214 USD/km² Treaty of Washington: Acre (state) [21] Brazil Bolivia: £2,000,000 1903 142,800 km² 14 GBP/km² Treaty of Petrópolis: Danish West Indies [22] United States Denmark: $25,000,000 USD 1916 400 km² 62,500 USD/km² Treaty of the Danish West Indies: Jäniskoski-Niskakoski territory [23 ...
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. [1] There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area.
The total number of countries in the African continent varies due to the instability throughout the region. See the List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa article for a current list. Great instability was created by graft under leaders in West Africa. [1]
List of active autonomist and secessionist movements, representing those nations which are currently part of a transnational state but would like to secede from the state. List of unrecognized states, representing those states which have declared independence, but whose independence has not been recognised by the majority of the international ...
List of terms for country subdivisions; List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions.
The label for the country: List of sovereign states; List of alternative country names; List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages; List of countries named after people; List of country-name etymologies; List of country names in various languages; List of countries that include United States in their name
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.