Country ranking for field: disputes international 1993

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This entry includes a wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another. Information regarding disputes over international terrestrial and maritime boundaries has been reviewed by the US Department of State. References to other situations involving borders or frontiers may also be included, such as resource disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues; however, inclusion does not necessarily constitute official acceptance or recognition by the US Government.

1	Cyprus	1974
2	Afghanistan	periodic disputes with Iran over Helmand water rights; Iran supports clients in country private Pakistani and Saudi sources may also be active; power struggles among various groups for control of Kabul regional rivalries among emerging warlords traditional tribal disputes continue; support to Islamic fighters in Tajikistan's civil war; border dispute with Pakistan
3	Palmyra Atoll	none
4	New Caledonia	none
5	New Zealand	territorial claim in Antarctica
6	Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank; International	territorial disputes with Colombia over the
7	Cameroon Chad Niger and Nigeria; Burkina and Mali are proceeding with boundary demarcation including the tripoint with Niger	Libya claims about 19400 km² in northern Niger; demarcation of international boundaries in Lake Chad the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past is completed and awaiting ratification by
8	Chad the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past is completed and awaiting ratification by Cameroon Chad Niger and Nigeria; boundary commission created with Cameroon to discuss unresolved land and maritime boundaries has not yet convened	demarcation of international boundaries in Lake
9	Niue	none
10	North Korea	short section of boundary with China is indefinite; Demarcation Line with South Korea
11	Northern Mariana Islands	none
12	Norway	territorial claim in Antarctica
13	Administrative Line with UAE in far north; a treaty with Yemen to settle the	no defined boundary with most of UAE;
14	Pacific Ocean	some maritime disputes
15	Afghanistan	status of Kashmir with India; border question with
16	Papua New Guinea	none
17	Panama	none
18	Nepal	none
19	Vietnam	occupied by China but claimed by Taiwan and
20	Paraguay	short section of the boundary with Brazil
21	Peru	three sections of the boundary with Ecuador are in dispute
22	Islands with China Malaysia Taiwan Vietnam and possibly Brunei; claims	involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly
23	Pitcairn Islands	none
24	Poland	none
25	Portugal	sovereignty over Timor Timur
26	Puerto Rico	none
27	Islands; maritime boundary with Bahrain	territorial dispute with Bahrain over the Hawar
28	Romania	none
29	Rwanda	none
30	Réunion	none
31	Netherlands Antilles	none
32	Navassa Island	claimed by Haiti
33	Saint Kitts and Nevis	none
34	Malta	none
35	Israeli troops in southern Lebanon since June 1982; Syrian troops in northern central and eastern Lebanon since October 1976	separated from Israel by the 1949 Armistice Line;
36	Lesotho	none
37	Liberia	none
38	Chad; maritime boundary dispute with Tunisia; Libya claims part of northern	claims and occupies the Aozou Strip in northern
39	Liechtenstein	claims 620 square miles of Czech territory confiscated from its royal family in 1918; the Czech Republic insists that restitution does not go back before February 1948 when the Communists seized power
40	Luxembourg	none
41	Macau	none
42	Macedonia	Greece claims republic's name implies territorial claims against Aegean Macedonia
43	Islands Juan de Nova Island and Tromelin Island	claims Bassas da India Europa Island Glorioso
44	Nyasa	dispute with Tanzania over the boundary in Lake
45	Islands with China Philippines Taiwan Vietnam and possibly Brunei; State of Sabah claimed by the Philippines; Brunei may wish to purchase the Malaysian salient that divides Brunei into two parts; two islands in dispute with	involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly
46	Maldives	none
47	Burkina and Mali was submitted to the International Court of Justice	the disputed international boundary between
48	Marshall Islands	claims US territory of Wake Island
49	Nauru	none
50	Martinique	none
51	Mauritania	boundary with Senegal
52	Territory; claims French-administered Tromelin Island	claims UK-administered Chagos Archipelago which includes the island of Diego Garcia in UK-administered British Indian Ocean
53	Mexico	claims Clipperton Island
54	Midway Islands	none
55	Moldova	potential dispute with Ukraine over former southern Bessarabian areas; northern Bukovina ceded to Ukraine upon Moldova's incorporation into USSR
56	Monaco	none
57	Mongolia	none
58	Montserrat	none
59	UN-administered cease-fire has been currently in effect since September 1991;	claims and administers Western Sahara but sovereignty is unresolved; the UN is attempting to hold a referendum; the
60	Mozambique	none
61	Myanmar	none
62	Botswana Zambia and Zimbabwe is in disagreement; claim by Namibia to Walvis	short section of boundary with Botswana is indefinite; disputed island with Botswana in the Chobe River; quadripoint with
63	Saint Helena	none
64	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	none
65	Saint Lucia	none
66	United Kingdom	Northern Ireland question with Ireland; Gibraltar question with Spain; Argentina claims Falkland Islands
67	Tokelau	none
68	Tonga	none
69	Trinidad and Tobago	none
70	Tromelin Island	claimed by Madagascar Mauritius and Seychelles
71	Tunisia	maritime boundary dispute with Libya; land boundary disputes with Algeria under discussion
72	Turkey	complex maritime and air
73	Turkmenistan	none
74	Turks and Caicos Islands	none
75	Tuvalu	none
76	U.S. Virgin Islands	none
77	Uganda	none
78	Moldova over former southern Bessarabian areas; has made no territorial claim in Antarctica	potential border disputes with Moldova and Romania in northern Bukovina and southern Odes'ka Oblast'; potential dispute with
79	United Arab Emirates	location and status of boundary with Saudi Arabia is not final; no defined boundary with most of Oman but Administrative Line in far north; claims two islands in the Persian Gulf occupied by Iran
80	United States	maritime boundary disputes with Canada
81	The Netherlands	none
82	Arroyo de la Invernada	short section of boundary with Argentina is in dispute; two short sections of the boundary with Brazil are in dispute -
83	Uzbekistan	none
84	Vanuatu	none
85	Venezuela	claims all of Guyana west of the Essequibo river; maritime boundary dispute with Colombia in the Gulf of Venezuela
86	Philippines Taiwan and possibly Brunei; unresolved maritime boundary with	maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with China Malaysia
87	Wake Island	claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands
88	Wallis and Futuna	none
89	West Bank	Israeli occupied with status to be determined
90	September 1991	claimed and administered by Morocco but sovereignty is unresolved and the UN is attempting to hold a referendum on the issue; the UN-administered cease-fire has been currently in effect since
91	Western Samoa	none
92	Administrative Line with Oman; a treaty with Oman to settle the Yemeni-Omani boundary was ratified in December 1992	undefined section of boundary with Saudi Arabia;
93	Zaire	Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled; long section with Congo along the Congo River is indefinite
94	Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled	quadripoint with Botswana Namibia and Zimbabwe is in disagreement; Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of the
95	Togo	none
96	The Gambia	short section of boundary with Senegal is indefinite
97	Laos	boundary dispute with Thailand
98	South Korea	Demarcation Line with North Korea; Liancourt Rocks claimed by Japan
99	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	focus of maritime boundary dispute between Canada and France
100	San Marino	none
101	Maradim Islands is disputed by Saudi Arabia	large section of boundary with Yemen not defined; status of boundary with UAE not final; Kuwaiti ownership of Qaruh and Umm al
102	Senegal	short section of the boundary with The Gambia is indefinite; the International Court of Justice
103	Serbia and Montenegro	Sandzak region bordering northern Montenegro and southeastern Serbia - Muslims seeking autonomy; Vojvodina taken from Hungary and awarded to the former Yugoslavia by Treaty of Trianon in 1920; disputes with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia over Serbian populated areas; Albanian minority in Kosovo seeks independence from Serbian Republic
104	Seychelles	claims Tromelin Island
105	Sierra Leone	none
106	Singapore	two islands in dispute with Malaysia
107	Czechoslovak federal property; establishment of international border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia	Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dam dispute with Hungary; unresolved property issues with Czech Republic over redistribution of former
108	Adriatic and over some border areas; the border issue is currently under negotiation; small minority in northern Italy seeks the return of parts of southwestern Slovenia	dispute with Croatia over fishing rights in the
109	Solomon Islands	none
110	Provisional Administrative Line; territorial dispute with Ethiopia over the	southern half of boundary with Ethiopia is a
111	South Africa	claim by Namibia to Walvis Bay exclave and 12 offshore islands administered by South Africa; South Africa and Namibia have agreed to jointly administer the area for an interim period; the terms and dates to be covered by joint administration arrangements have not been established at this time; and Namibia will continue to maintain a claim to sovereignty over the entire area
112	Spain	Gibraltar question with UK; Spain controls five places of sovereignty
113	The Bahamas	none
114	Taiwan and Vietnam; parts of them are claimed by Malaysia and the	all of the Spratly Islands are claimed by China
115	October)	administrative boundary with Kenya does not coincide with international boundary; administrative boundary with Egypt does not coincide with international boundary creating the "Hala'ib Triangle" a barren area of 20580 km² the dispute over this area escalated in 1993
116	Suriname	claims area in French Guiana between Litani Rivier and Riviere Marouini
117	Sea between Norway and Russia	focus of maritime boundary dispute in the Barents
118	Swaziland	none
119	Sweden	none
120	Switzerland	none
121	Golan Heights is Israeli occupied; Hatay question with Turkey; periodic disputes with Iraq over Euphrates water rights; ongoing dispute over water development plans by Turkey for the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; Syrian troops in northern Lebanon since October 1976	separated from Israel by the 1949 Armistice Line;
122	São Tomé and Príncipe	none
123	Islands with China Malaysia Philippines Vietnam and possibly Brunei;	involved in complex dispute over the Spratly
124	Afghanistan's support to Islamic fighters in Tajikistan's civil war	boundary with China under dispute; territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan on northern boundary in Isfara Valley area;
125	Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled	boundary dispute with Malawi in Lake Nyasa;
126	Thailand	boundary dispute with Laos; unresolved maritime boundary with Vietnam
127	Soviet Socialist Republic to Russia in 1944	the Abrene section of border ceded by the Latvian
128	Kyrgyzstan	territorial dispute with Tajikistan on southern boundary in Isfara Valley area
129	Northern Epirus question with Greece	Kosovo question with Serbia and Montenegro;
130	Argentina is indefinite; Bolivia has wanted a sovereign corridor to the South	short section of the southern boundary with
131	British Virgin Islands	none
132	Reef but has not publicly claimed the island	may wish to purchase the Malaysian salient that divides the country; all of the Spratly Islands are claimed by China Taiwan and Vietnam; parts of them are claimed by Malaysia and the Philippines; in 1984 Brunei established an exclusive fishing zone that encompasses Louisa
133	Bulgaria	Macedonia question with Greece and Macedonia
134	Burkina and Mali was submitted to the International Court of Justice	the disputed international boundary between
135	Burundi	none
136	Cabo Verde	none
137	Cambodia	offshore islands and three sections of the boundary with Vietnam are in dispute; maritime boundary with Vietnam not defined
138	Chad the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past is completed and awaiting ratification by Cameroon Chad Niger and Nigeria; boundary commission created with Nigeria to discuss unresolved land and maritime	demarcation of international boundaries in Lake
139	Pierre and Miquelon is focus of maritime boundary dispute between Canada and	maritime boundary disputes with the US; Saint
140	Cayman Islands	none
141	Central African Republic	none
142	Strip in the far north; demarcation of international boundaries in Lake Chad the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past is completed and awaiting ratification by Cameroon Chad Niger and Nigeria	Libya claims and occupies the 100000 km² Aozou
143	Korea is indefinite; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with Malaysia Philippines Taiwan Vietnam and possibly Brunei; maritime boundary dispute with Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin; Paracel Islands occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; claims Japanese-administered	boundary with India; bilateral negotiations are under way to resolve disputed sections of the boundary with Russia; boundary with Tajikistan under dispute; a short section of the boundary with North
144	Brazil	short section of the boundary with Paraguay
145	Christmas Island	none
146	Clipperton Island	claimed by Mexico
147	Cocos Islands	none
148	Gulf of Venezuela; territorial dispute with Nicaragua over Archipelago de San	maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the
149	Comoros	claims French-administered Mayotte
150	Congo	long section with Zaire along the Congo River is indefinite
151	Cook Islands	none
152	Coral Sea Islands	none
153	Costa Rica	none
154	Croatia	Serbian enclaves in eastern Croatia and along the western Bosnia and Herzegovinian border; dispute with Slovenia over fishing rights in Adriatic
155	Cuba	US Naval Base at Guantanamo is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease
156	Communists seized power; unresolved property dispute issues with Slovakia over redistribution of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic's property; establishment of international border between Czech Republic and Slovakia	Liechtenstein claims 620 square miles of Czech territory confiscated from its royal family in 1918; the Czech Republic insists that restitution does not go back before February 1948 when the
157	Côte d'Ivoire	none
158	British Indian Ocean Territory	the entire Chagos Archipelago is claimed by
159	Bouvet Island	none
160	Dominica	none
161	Australia	territorial claim in Antarctica
162	Algeria	Libya claims part of southeastern Algeria; land boundary disputes with Tunisia under discussion
163	American Samoa	none
164	Andorra	none
165	National Union for the Total Independence of Angola refused to accept its defeat in internationally monitored elections; fighting has since resumed across the countryside	civil war since independence on 11 November 1975; a ceasefire held from 31 May 1991 until October 1992 when the insurgent
166	Anguilla	none
167	Antarctica	Antarctic Treaty defers claims
168	Antigua and Barbuda	none
169	Arctic Ocean	some maritime disputes
170	British-administered Falkland Islands	short section of the boundary with Uruguay is in dispute; short section of the boundary with Chile is indefinite; claims
171	Armenians living in southern Georgia; traditional demands on former Armenian lands in Turkey have greatly subsided	violent and longstanding dispute with Azerbaijan over ethnically Armenian exclave of Nagorno-Karabakh; some irredentism by
172	Aruba	none
173	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	none
174	Atlantic Ocean	some maritime disputes
175	Austria	none
176	Namibia Zambia and Zimbabwe is in disagreement; recent dispute with Namibia over uninhabited Sidudu Island in Linyanti River	short section of boundary with Namibia is indefinite; disputed island with Namibia in the Chobe River; quadripoint with
177	Azerbaijanis desire absorption of and/or unification with the ethnically Azeri portion of Iran; minor irredentist disputes along Georgia border	violent and longstanding dispute with Armenia over status of Nagorno-Karabakh lesser dispute concerns Nakhichevan; some
178	Islands; maritime boundary with Qatar	territorial dispute with Qatar over the Hawar
179	Baker Island	none
180	Bangladesh	a portion of the boundary with India is in dispute; water-sharing problems with upstream riparian India over the Ganges
181	Barbados	none
182	Bassas da India	claimed by Madagascar
183	Belarus	none
184	Belgium	none
185	Belize	border with Guatemala in dispute; negotiations to resolve the dispute have begun
186	Benin	none
187	Bermuda	none
188	Bhutan	none
189	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia seek to cantonize Bosnia and Herzegovina; Muslim majority being forced from many areas
190	Iceland Ireland and the UK	Rockall continental shelf dispute involving
191	Dominican Republic	none
192	Council Resolution 687 which demands that Iraq accept the inviolability of the boundary set forth in its 1963 agreement with Kuwait ending earlier claims to Bubiyan and Warbah Islands or to all of Kuwait; the 20 May 1993 final report of the UN Iraq/Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission was welcomed by the Security Council in Resolution 833 of 27 May 1993 which also reaffirmed that the decisions of the commission on the boundary were final bringing to a completion the official demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait boundary;	in April 1991 Iraq officially accepted UN Security
193	Arab waterway; in April 1991 official Iraqi acceptance of UN Security Council	Iran and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in 1990 but are still trying to work out written agreements settling outstanding disputes from their eight-year war concerning border demarcation prisoners-of-war and freedom of navigation and sovereignty over the Shatt al
194	Guyana	all of the area west of the Essequibo River claimed by Venezuela; Suriname claims area between New
195	Haiti	claims US-administered Navassa Island
196	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	none
197	Holy See	none
198	Honduras	land boundary dispute with El Salvador mostly resolved by 11 September 1992 International Court of Justice
199	Hong Kong	none
200	Howland Island	none
201	Hungary	Gabcikovo Dam dispute with Slovakia; Vojvodina taken from Hungary and awarded to the former Yugoslavia by treaty of Trianon in 1920
202	Denmark Ireland and the UK	Rockall continental shelf dispute involving
203	Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with downstream riparians	boundaries with Bangladesh and China; status of
204	Indian Ocean	some maritime disputes
205	Indonesia	sovereignty over Timor Timur
206	Arab waterway; Iran occupies two islands in the Persian Gulf claimed by the	Iran and Iraq restored diplomatic relations in 1990 but are still trying to work out written agreements settling outstanding disputes from their eight-year war concerning border demarcation prisoners-of-war and freedom of navigation and sovereignty over the Shatt al
207	Ireland	Northern Ireland question with the UK; Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Denmark Iceland and the UK
208	Guinea-Bissau	the International Court of Justice
209	Israel	separated from Lebanon Syria and the West Bank by the 1949 Armistice Line; differences with Jordan over the location of the 1949 Armistice Line that separates the two countries; West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli occupied with status to be determined; Golan Heights is Israeli occupied; Israeli troops in southern Lebanon since June 1982; water-sharing issues with Jordan
210	Italy	small vocal minority in northern Italy seeks the return of parts of southwestern Slovenia
211	Jan Mayen	Denmark has challenged Norway's maritime claims between Greenland and Jan Mayen
212	Habomai island group occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 now administered by	Etorofu Kunashiri and Shikotan Islands and the
213	Jarvis Island	none
214	Jersey	none
215	Johnston Atoll	none
216	Jordan	differences with Israel over the location of the 1949 Armistice Line that separates the two countries; water-sharing issues with Israel
217	Juan de Nova Island	claimed by Madagascar
218	Kazakhstan	none
219	Kenya	administrative boundary with Sudan does not coincide with international boundary; possible claim by Somalia based on unification of ethnic Somalis
220	Kingman Reef	none
221	Kiribati	none
222	Guinea	none
223	Guernsey	none
224	Ecuador	three sections of the boundary with Peru are in dispute
225	French Guiana	Suriname claims area between Riviere Litani and; Riviere Marouini
226	Egypt	administrative boundary with Sudan does not coincide with international boundary creating the "Hala'ib Triangle" a barren area of 20580 km² the dispute over this area escalated in 1993
227	El Salvador	land boundary dispute with Honduras mostly resolved by 11 September 1992 International Court of Justice
228	Equatorial Guinea	maritime boundary dispute with Gabon because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay
229	Eritrea	none
230	Estonia	international small border strips along the northern
231	Provisional Administrative Line; possible claim by Somalia based on unification of ethnic Somalis; territorial dispute with Somalia over the	southern half of the boundary with Somalia is a
232	Europa Island	claimed by Madagascar
233	Falkland Islands	administered by the UK claimed by Argentina
234	Faroe Islands	none
235	Federated States of Micronesia	none
236	Fiji	none
237	Finland	none
238	Glorioso Islands Juan de Nova Island and Tromelin Island; Comoros claims	Madagascar claims Bassas da India Europa Island
239	French Polynesia	none
240	Guatemala	border with Belize in dispute; negotiations to resolve the dispute have begun
241	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Terre Adelie claim in Antarctica is not recognized by the US
242	Gabon	maritime boundary dispute with Equatorial Guinea because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay
243	Gaza Strip	Israeli occupied with status to be determined
244	Georgia	none
245	Germany	none
246	Ghana	none
247	Gibraltar	source of occasional friction between Spain and the UK
248	Glorioso Islands	claimed by Madagascar
249	Greece	air continental shelf and territorial water disputes with Turkey in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question; northern Epirus question with Albania; Macedonia question with Bulgaria and Macedonia
250	Greenland	Denmark has challenged Norway's maritime claims between Greenland and Jan Mayen
251	Grenada	none
252	Guadeloupe	none
253	Guam	none
254	Zimbabwe	quadripoint with Botswana Namibia and Zambia is in disagreement

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