Borderless countries
This is a list of island countries. An "island country", also called a borderless country, is an insular territory over which a nation-state maintains sovereignty under international law, that does not share the land territory of any of its islands with other nation-states which are sovereign under international law. For example, the Republic of Ireland shares the island of Ireland with the United Kingdom (through Northern Ireland) and thus is not borderless. Madagascar, on the other hand, is defined as a borderless country because it controls one or more entire islands. An island country does not have to be located on a single island, and can be spread over an archipelago, as is the case with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Philippines (which consists of thousands of islands). (For a broader definition, including countries that share an island, see Island country.)
Current
By political status
Independent
Independence under dispute
Autonomous, colonies and semi-autonomous
By geographic configuration
Centered on one major island
Spread over group of islands (including parts of archipelagoes and island arcs)
Island shared between two or more states
See List of divided islands
Continental shelf
Oceanic ridges or atolls
Former nations
Historical
- Andros
- Corsican Republic
- Republic of Crete
- Kingdom of Cyprus
- Delos
- Duchy of the Archipelago
- Republic of Ezo
- Republic of Formosa
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Hawai‘i
- Republic of Hawai‘i
- Kingdom of Ireland
- Irish Free State
[By the original treaty, the Irish Free State included the six counties of Northern Ireland, but gave them the option to stay with the United Kingdom, which they did.]
- Khios
- Kediri
- Lesbos
- Majapahit
- Kingdom of Majorca
- Kingdom of Man
- Mataram Sultanate
- Merina
- Micronesian Empire
- Milos
- Minoans
- Dominion of Newfoundland
[The Colony of Newfoundland covers the island of Newfoundland before 1808. In 1808, part of the peninsula of Labrador was transferred to Newfoundland from Lower Canada. In other words, before 1808, Newfoundland was an island colony. From 1808 onwards, the Colony of Newfoundland, and later the Dominion of Newfoundland, had been an island plus an area on the continent of North America.]
- Pholegandros
- Rhodes
- Ryūkyū Kingdom
- Sailendra
- Samos
- Sese Islands
- Srivijaya
- Tavolara
- Trinidad
- Tu\'i Tonga Empire
- West Indies Federation, split up into Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Zakynthos
Former colonies, possessions, protectorates and territories
- Cape Breton Island, now part of Nova Scotia, Canada
- Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands
- Territory of Hawai‘i, a US territory from 1898 to 1959, now part of the United States.
- Hong Kong (1841-1860), now a special administrative region of the People\'s Republic of China
[The Crown Colony of Hong Kong covers only Hong Kong Island from 1841 to 1860. Kowloon south of Boundary Street on the continent was added in 1860, and extended to include the New Territories in 1898.] - Labuan, briefly part of British North Borneo, the Strait settlements and Sabah, now a federal territory of Malaysia
- Newfoundland (1583-1809), now Province of Newfoundland and Labrador of Canada
- New Hebrides, now Vanuatu
- Prince Edward Island, now a province of Canada
- Réunion, now an overseas department of France
- Socotra, now part of Yemen
- Tasmania, now a part of Australia
- Vancouver Island, now a part of British Columbia, Canada
- Zanzibar and Pemba, now parts of Tanzania
Micronations
Alphabetical list of island countries
List of borderless dependent territories
Notes
See also
External links
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