Subject: Significant Boundary disputes<br/>
Date: Jul 10, 2001 @ 18:13<br/>
Author: Randy Finder (&quot;Randy Finder&quot; &lt;naraht@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-119861114">I&#39;m looking for *significant* boundary disputes in the world right <br/>
now. This being roughly defined as where more than 5% of what one <br/>
country claims as its area is also claimed by another country. <br/>
Country in this case is defined as a UN Member state, or other area <br/>
with longstanding control over its own area (Include Taiwan and <br/>
Switzerland, exclude the Palestinian Authority.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
Certain: <br/>
More than 5% of Kuwait (100%) is claimed by Iraq.<br/>
More than 5% of Belize (100%) was (is?) claimed by Guatemala. <br/>
At one point in the &#39;60s China published maps showing most of the <br/>
Soviet Far East as part of China (China with an Arctic Ocean coast!)<br/>
<br/>
Possibles: Peru & Ecuador almost came to fighting a couple of years <br/>
ago over land, but I don&#39;t know if that reached 5%.<br/>
I know Turkey claims some of the Islands between Greece & Turkey, not <br/>
sure if that reaches 5%. <br/>
<br/>
I don&#39;t think of the PRC-ROC conflict as being in this because at <br/>
this point, both of them agree on how large the country should be.<br/>
<br/>
Any more ideas?<br/>
<br/>
Randy Finder</div>