Formerly Disputed Islands
Formerly Disputed Islands | U.S. Department of the Interior
The United States has disputed with other nations the status of certain islands or atolls. Five (5) were in the Caribbean; twenty-five (25), in the Pacific.
Category:Disputed islands - Wikipedia
Subcategories ; Disputed islands by continent (6 C). Former disputed islands (50 P) ; B · British Indian Ocean Territory (9 C, 12 P) ; C · Chagos Archipelago (5 C, ...
Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia
The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four ...
Timeline: China's Maritime Disputes - Council on Foreign Relations
Although China has not previously disputed Japanese claims to the islands, it asserts its own sovereignty over them in May 1970, after Japan, South Korea ...
8 Hotly Disputed Borders of the World | Britannica
The dispute over these islands, controlled by Japan and claimed by China, intensified after oil and gas fields were found underneath. In 2012 the sale of one of ...
18 Island Disputes - Business Insider
Senkaku (Japan)/Diaoyu (China) Islands ... The Japanese government has been in control of Senkaku since it formally annexed the islands in 1895, ...
The Kuril Islands or the Northern Territories: Who Owns Them
' The territorial dispute concerns four islands off the northeast coast of Japan: Shikotan,. Kunashiri, Etorofu (or Iturup) and the Habomai group. 2 The former.
What is the South China Sea dispute? - BBC News
The other major claimant to the area is the Philippines, which invokes its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands as the main basis of ...
Definitions of Insular Area Political Organizations
Disputed Island, Formerly or currently considered U.S. possession by the U.S. The U.S., through negotiation, has disclaimed ownership of most islands in ...
Disputes over the Diaoyutai Islands
The Diaoyutai Islands are an island group appertaining to Taiwan and part of the territory of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea | Britannica - Britannica
China then took possession of Johnson Reef (part of the Spratly Islands) from Vietnam in 1988 and Mischief Reef (also part of the Spratlys), ...
Territorial Dispute - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Japan and Russia have disputes in sovereignty over four southernmost Kuril islands. The disputed islands are called 'southern Kuril islands' by Russia and ...
Understanding the South China Sea Dispute
China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan all lay claim to overlapping territories among the sea's vast stretch of islands, rocks, and ...
China rebuts Vietnam's claims to disputed South China Sea islands
The Paracel and Spratly Islands, known as the Hoang Sa and Trong Sa islands in Vietnam, are in the South China Sea, a busy global maritime ...
Singapore to develop formerly disputed island to boost security
SINGAPORE • Singapore will start development works on an island that was once the subject of a territorial dispute with Malaysia in a bid to ...
The Dokdo and Kuril Islands: Japan's Twin Disputes
This included the Dokdo Islands. Although Japan formally annexed Korea in 1910, the question remains whether Tokyo treated Dokdo as a Japanese ...
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius? | News
After a dispute running for more than 50 years, the United Kingdom will finally hand back the Chagos Islands, an archipelago located in the ...
The South China Sea: The Spratly Islands dispute - Asia House
As part of the larger South China Sea dispute, the long-standing Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute regarding ocean areas ...
South China Sea dispute: How did we get here? - CNN
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all dispute sovereignty of several island chains and nearby waters in the South China Sea ...
South China Sea dispute: China's pursuit of resources 'unlawful ...
Months earlier, China landed bombers in the disputed territory to take part in drills on islands and reefs. China has previously accused the US ...