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Borders of the United Kingdom

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The following is a list of maritime and land borders of the UK and its overseas territories:

Country or territory
(Territories without full sovereignty[1] in italics)		 No. of land border neighbours No. of maritime boundary neighbours Total no. of unique neighbours Neighbouring countries and territories
(Territories without full sovereignty[1] in italics)
(L) = share only land borders
(M) = share only maritime boundaries
blank = share land borders and maritime boundaries
Image United Kingdom[2] 1 [3] 8 8 Image Belgium (M)
Image Denmark (M)
Image France France–UK border (M)
Image Germany (M)
Image Ireland (L)
Image Netherlands (M)
Image Norway (M)
Image Faroe Islands[4](Denmark) (M)
Image United Kingdom (plus British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
→including:
→United Kingdom Akrotiri and Dhekelia
→Image Anguilla
→Image Bermuda
→Image British Indian Ocean Territory
→Image British Virgin Islands
→Image Cayman Islands
→Image Falkland Islands
→Image Gibraltar
→Image Guernsey
→Image Isle of Man
→Image Jersey
→Image Montserrat
→Image Pitcairn Islands
→Image Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
→Image South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
→Image Turks and Caicos Islands		 4 29 30 Image Antigua and Barbuda (M)
Image Argentina (M)
Image Bahamas (M)
Image Belgium (M)
Image Colombia (M)
Image Cuba (M)
Image Cyprus
Image Denmark (M)
Image Dominican Republic (M)
Image Egypt (M)
Image France (M)
Image Germany (M)
Image Haiti (M)
Image Honduras (M)
Image Ireland
Image Jamaica (M)
Image Lebanon (M)
Image Maldives (M)
Image Morocco (M)
Image Netherlands (M)
Image Norway (M)
Image Saint Kitts and Nevis (M)
Image Spain
Image Venezuela (M)
Image Faroe Islands[4](Denmark) (M)
Image French Polynesia[5](France) (M)
Image Puerto Rico[6](United States) (M)
France Saint Martin[5](France) (M)
Image Northern Cyprus (L)

> (M)
and United NationsUnited Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus

Image British Antarctic Territory 7 7 Image Ross Dependency (L)
Image Adélie Land (L)
Image Australian Antarctic Territory (L)
Image Queen Maud Land
Antarctica Marie Byrd Land (Terra nullius) (L)
Territorial claims not recognised by the UK:
Image Chilean Antarctic Territory
Image Argentine Antarctica

References

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  1. 1 2 The concept of state sovereignty is somewhat imprecise and there are disagreements about whether certain territories are sovereign. There are currently 195 states that are generally regarded as "fully" sovereign: this includes the 193 member states of the United Nations plus the observer states of Vatican City and the State of Palestine. Some of these states have under their jurisdiction territories, dependencies, or collectivities that are clearly non-sovereign geographical areas. These territories are generally regarded as being subsumed within the overarching sovereignty of the governing state. For example, the United Kingdom holds sovereignty over the territory of Gibraltar, even though Gibraltar is not considered to be part of the United Kingdom. There are a few territories in the world that are neither clearly sovereign nor clearly subsumed under another state's sovereignty. Often, these territories have declared themselves to be sovereign, but they are either not widely recognized as such or lack some of the necessary conditions for sovereign statehood. In these cases, explanatory footnotes indicate how the territory is treated for the purposes of this list.
  2. ↑ The United Kingdom does not include British Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies.
  3. ↑ The World Factbook
  4. 1 2 This territory is not sovereign, but is a country within the Kingdom of Denmark. For purposes of this list, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland are considered constituent parts of one sovereign state.
  5. 1 2 This territory is not sovereign, but is an overseas collectivity of France, and as such it is part of the sovereign territory of France.
  6. ↑ This territory is not sovereign, but is an insular area of the United States. U.S. territories are considered to be part of the sovereign territory of the United States.

See also

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