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The Principality of Sealand (/ ˈ s iː ˌ l æ n d /) is a micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), [2] an offshore platform in the North Sea.It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 kilometres (6 nmi) from the coast of Suffolk and 13 kilometres (7 nmi) from the coast of Essex.
At the time, the fort was international waters. In 1978, Germany sent a diplomat to Sealand to negotiate with Bates for the release of a German citizen who claimed to be Sealand's prime minister, and had led a failed attack on the fort. Bates would thereafter claim that the dispatching of the emissary constituted recognition of Sealand by Germany.
The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...
In addition, both Sealand and Seborga have their own national association football teams. The Sealand national football team was founded in 2004 [154] and became an associate member of the N.F.-Board, a federation made up of unrecognised states, stateless peoples, regions and micronations that are not allowed to join FIFA, in 2006. [155]
Countries that participate at the Games of the Small States of Europe are: Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino. Monaco ( from 1959 to 1979 and 2004 to 2006 ), Malta ( since 1971 ), Andorra ( from 2004 to 2009 ), and San Marino ( debut in 2008, then from 2011 onwards ) are or were ...
The province, located in the southwest of the country, borders North Brabant to the east, South Holland to the north, as well as the country of Belgium to the south and west. It consists of a number of islands and peninsulas (hence its name, meaning "Sealand") and a strip bordering the Flemish provinces of East and West Flanders.
The metropolitan territory of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland form the three constituent countries of the Kingdom. [v] The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole is a member of the EU, but EU law (in most cases) does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. See Greenland and the European Union, and Faroe Islands and the European Union. [20 ...
Sealand is a micronation whom England considers to be an annoying little brother due to his continued attempts to get other countries to recognize him as an independent country. In the anime series, he is voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama in Japanese and originally by Scott Freeman in English until Funimation cut off all ties with him due to sex ...