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The borders of Guatemala are the international borders which it shares with four nations: [1] [2]. Mexico; Honduras; Belize; El Salvador; Over its history Guatemala has been the subject of a number of territorial disputes with its neighbours, stemming in large part from the absence of any definition of its borders prior to independence. [3]
In addition, territorial disputes are sometimes brought to the International Court of Justice, as was the case in Costa Rica and Nicaragua (2005). [3] Territorial disputes cannot be separated from international law, whose basis is on the law of state borders, and their potential settlement also relies on international law and the Court.
Disputed territory between Belize and Guatemala There is an unresolved territorial dispute between the states of Belize (formerly known as British Honduras) and Guatemala, neighbours in Central America. During the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s, Britain and Spain signed several treaties regarding territories in the Americas. Both nations agreed that the territory of modern-day Belize was ...
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Part of the broader territorial dispute. Erik the Red's Land Denmark Norway Iceland [140] 1931 1933 [141] Isla Portillos Costa Rica Nicaragua: 2010 2018 On 2 Feb 2018, the ICJ rendered a decision in a border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica regarding Isla Portillos . Nicaragua was left with just the Laguna Los Portillos and its short ...
Guatemala, [a] officially the Republic of Guatemala, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
Upon independence, the Captaincy General of Guatemala was abolished. The captaincy general's former provinces—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua—united under the Consultive Junta, a provisional national government was established in Guatemala to form a formal federal government for Central America. [22]