h North
Korea in the Paektu-san (mountain) area is indefinite; involved in a
complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with Malaysia, Philippines,
Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei; maritime boundary agreement
with Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin awaits ratification; Paracel
Islands occupied by China, but claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; claims
Japanese-administered Senkaku-shoto (Senkaku Islands/Diaoyu Tai), as
does Taiwan

Christmas Island:
none

Clipperton Island:
none

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
none

Colombia:
maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of
Venezuela; territorial disputes with Nicaragua over Archipelago de
San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank

Comoros:
claims French-administered Mayotte; the island of Anjouan
(Nzwani) has moved to secede from Comoros

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
the Democratic Republic of the
Congo is in the grip of a civil war that has drawn in military
forces from neighboring states, with Uganda and Rwanda supporting
the rebel movements that occupy much of the eastern portion of the
state; most of the Congo river boundary with the Republic of the
Congo is indefinite (no agreement has been reached on the division
of the river or its islands, except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool
area)

Congo, Republic of the:
most of the Congo river boundary with the
Democratic Republic of the Congo is indefinite (no agreement has
been reached on the division of the river or its islands, except in
the Stanley Pool/Pool Malebo area)

Cook Islands:
none

Coral Sea Islands:
none

Costa Rica:
legal dispute over navigational rights of Rio San Juan
on border with Nicaragua

Cote d'Ivoire:
none

Croatia:
Croatia and Italy made progress toward resolving a
bilateral issue dating from World War II over property and ethnic
minority rights; progress with Slovenia on discussions of
adjustments to land boundary, but problems remain in defining
maritime boundary in Gulf of Piran; Croatia and Yugoslavia are
negotiating the status of the strategically important Prevlaka
Peninsula, which is currently under a UN military observer mission
(UNMOP)

Cuba:
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only
mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the
lease

Cyprus:
1974 hostilities divided the island into two de facto
autonomous areas, a Greek Cyprio