Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Significant Boundary disputes<br/>
Date: Jul 10, 2001 @ 18:25<br/>
Author: Bernhard (Bernhard &lt;tardis@...-net.de&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-981874170">Hello Randy,<br/>
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The obvious cases I could think of off the top of my head are:<br/>
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Venezuela claiming a large slice of Guyana<br/>
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Irland have just withdrawn their claim to Northern Ireland in 1997.<br/>
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Lybia claims a large area to the south from Tchad.<br/>
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The Western Sahara conflict could be your subject, too, with the natives in<br/>
exile claiming all of the former Spanish colony.<br/>
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The Arab neighbours claiming Israel&#39;s territory. I don&#39;t believe the claim<br/>
has been withdrawn.<br/>
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The Philipines claim (or claimed) Sabah.<br/>
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I&#39;m sure other suggestions will follow.<br/>
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Regards<br/>
<br/>
Bernhard<br/>
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Randy Finder wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; I&#39;m looking for *significant* boundary disputes in the world right<br/>
&gt; now. This being roughly defined as where more than 5% of what one<br/>
&gt; country claims as its area is also claimed by another country.<br/>
&gt; Country in this case is defined as a UN Member state, or other area<br/>
&gt; with longstanding control over its own area (Include Taiwan and<br/>
&gt; Switzerland, exclude the Palestinian Authority.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Certain:<br/>
&gt; More than 5% of Kuwait (100%) is claimed by Iraq.<br/>
&gt; More than 5% of Belize (100%) was (is?) claimed by Guatemala.<br/>
&gt; At one point in the &#39;60s China published maps showing most of the<br/>
&gt; Soviet Far East as part of China (China with an Arctic Ocean coast!)<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Possibles: Peru & Ecuador almost came to fighting a couple of years<br/>
&gt; ago over land, but I don&#39;t know if that reached 5%.<br/>
&gt; I know Turkey claims some of the Islands between Greece & Turkey, not<br/>
&gt; sure if that reaches 5%.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; I don&#39;t think of the PRC-ROC conflict as being in this because at<br/>
&gt; this point, both of them agree on how large the country should be.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Any more ideas?<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; Randy Finder<br/>
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