Borderless country
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A borderless country may be defined as an island nation, an insular territory over which a nation-state is sovereign under international law, that does not share the land territory of its island with other nation-states sovereign under international law. For example, the Republic of Ireland shares the island of Ireland with Northern Ireland and thus is not borderless. A borderless nation does not have to be located on single island, as countries such as the Federated States of Micronesia can consist of thousands of islands. Cuba is a disputed case of an island nation because the United States exercises effective sovereignty over part of Guantanamo Bay.1
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List of borderless countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia 2
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Cape Verde
- Republic of China (Taiwan) 3
- Comoros
- Dominica
- Fiji
- Grenada
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Zealand4
- Palau
- Philippines
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
List of borderless dependent territories
- Åland5
- Aruba
- American Samoa
- Anguilla
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Baker Island
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
- Coral Sea Islands Territory
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Territories6
- Greenland
- Guam
- Guernsey
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Howland Island
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Isle of Man
- Jan Mayen
- Jarvis Island
- Jersey
- Johnston Atoll
- Kingman Reef
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Midway Atoll
- Montserrat
- Navassa Island
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palmyra Atoll
- Pitcairn Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Réunion
- Saint Helena
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Svalbard
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Tokelau
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Wake Island
- Wallis and Futuna
Footnotes
Note 1: Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is a U.S. lease. Note 2: Australia maintain claims to territory in Antarctica and as such can technically be regarded as having land borders there. Note 3: The Republic of China (Taiwan) has not formally renounced claim on areas currently under control of People's Republic of China, Mongolia, Tuva (a Russian republic), etc. Note 4: New Zealand maintain claims to territory in Antarctica and as such can technically be regarded as having land borders there. Note 5: Market Reef defines the border between Finland and Sweden. The lighthouse on the reef is administred directly from Finland and is usually not considered a part of the autonomous Åland Islands. Note 6: France claims territory in Antarctica and as such can technically be regarded as having land borders there. Otherwise, islands administered in this Oversea Territory have no land borders.