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Land borders and maritime boundaries are included and are tabulated separately and in combination. For purposes of this list, "maritime boundary" includes boundaries that are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which includes boundaries of territorial waters, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones.
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below. Lists of islands by country
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. [1] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines—these countries consist of thousands of islands.
List of lakes of the Kerguelen Islands; List of lakes of the LCRV (birdwatching) List of lakes of the Netherlands; List of lakes of the Northwest Territories; List of lakes of the Palestinian territories; List of lakes of the Philippines; List of lakes of the Sawtooth Mountains (Idaho) List of lakes of the St. Johns River; List of lakes of the ...
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 ...
The baselines must enclose the main islands of the archipelago and the enclosed water to land ratio must be "between 1:1 and 9:1". [7] The lower end of this ratio was chosen to exclude states with a lot of land, like Japan, while the higher end prevents a group of highly scattered islands from putting claims on a very large body of water.
Passage – connects waters between islands, also sometimes known as a strait; Canal – a human-made channel; Fjard – a large open water between groups of islands; There are several terms used for bulges of ocean that result from indentations of land, which overlap in definition, and which are not consistently differentiated: [12]
The UN flag, used for all administrations (except UNTAC) The flag used for UNTAC in Cambodia. This is a list of territories which are directly administered, or once were, by the United Nations (UN). These are not to be confused with UN trust territories, which were run by a single country under a UN mandate.