Disputes - international | Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm; sovereignty dispute with Canada over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland; Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission |
Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 20,046 (Syria), 5,320 (Eritrea) (2019) stateless persons: 11,655 (2020) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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