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  • Unrecognized states
  • State-like entities that strive for, or have achieved de facto independence.
  • Abkhazia
  • Cabinda
  • Catalonia
  • Donetsk People’s Republic
  • Kurdistan
  • Luhansk People’s Republic
  • Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Northern Cyprus
  • Puntland
  • Somaliland
  • South Ossetia
  • Taiwan
  • Transnistria
  • Western Sahara
  • Contested territories
  • Curious borders, enclaves and territorial disputes.
  • Antarctica
  • Baarle
  • Bajo Nueva Bank
  • Bir Tawil
  • Black Hills
  • Bougainville
  • Ceuta & Melilla
  • Chagos Archipelago
  • Conejo Island
  • Corisco Bay
  • Falkland Islands
  • Fergana Valley
  • Gibraltar
  • Glorioso Islands
  • Greater and Lesser Tunbs
  • Guantanamo Bay
  • Hans Island
  • Hong Kong
  • Ilha Brasileira
  • Jammu & Kashmir
  • Kosovo
  • Kuril Islands
  • Liancourt Rocks
  • Machias Seal Island
  • Migingo Island
  • Mont Blanc
  • North Pole
  • Paracel Islands
  • Pratas Islands
  • Puerto Rico
  • Senkaku Islands
  • Spratly Islands
  • Terrestrial Triangle
  • Wake Island
  • Micronations
  • Wondrous entities founded in an attempt to claim autonomy.
  • Aerican Empire
  • Aeterna Lucina
  • Akhzivland
  • AVL-Ville
  • Boon Island
  • Calexit
  • Celestia
  • Christiania
  • Conch Republic
  • Coral Sea Islands
  • Elgaland-Vargaland
  • EnenKio
  • Eurostaete
  • Freedonia
  • Glacier Republic
  • Great Bitter Lake
  • Hakkelaarsbrug
  • Hutt River
  • Icaria
  • Kalakuta Republic
  • Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
  • Kingdom of Lovely
  • Ladonia
  • Liberland
  • Llhuros
  • Minerva
  • Molossia
  • Moresnet
  • M’Simbati
  • Naminara
  • New Utopia
  • North Dumpling Island
  • Nutopia
  • Parva Domus
  • Principality of Pontinha
  • Rose Island
  • Sabotage
  • San Escobar
  • Sealand
  • Seborga
  • Sedang
  • State of Jefferson
  • Talossa
  • Užupis
  • Westarctica
  • Yidindji
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