n, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei;
Philippines have not fully revoked claim to Sabah State; Pulau Batu
Putih (Pedra Branca Island) disputed with Singapore; Sipadan and
Ligitan Islands in dispute with Indonesia
Maldives:
none
Mali:
none
Malta:
none
Man, Isle of:
none
Marshall Islands:
claims US territory of Wake Island
Martinique:
none
Mauritania:
none
Mauritius:
claims the Chagos Archipelago (UK-administered British
Indian Ocean Territory); claims French-administered Tromelin Island
Mayotte:
claimed by Comoros
Mexico:
none
Micronesia, Federated States of:
none
Midway Islands:
none
Moldova:
separatist Transnistria region, comprising the area between
the Nistru (Dniester) River and Ukraine, has its own de facto
government, dominated by Moldovan Slavs
Monaco:
none
Mongolia:
none
Montserrat:
none
Morocco:
claims and administers Western Sahara, but sovereignty is
unresolved and the UN is attempting to hold a referendum on the
issue; the UN-administered cease-fire has been in effect since
September 1991; Spain controls five places of sovereignty (plazas de
soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco - the coastal enclaves of
Ceuta and Melilla which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of
Penon de Alhucemas, Penon de Velez de la Gomera, and Islas Chafarinas
Mozambique:
none
Namibia:
none
Nauru:
none
Navassa Island:
claimed by Haiti
Nepal:
refugee issue over the presence in Nepal of approximately
98,700 Bhutanese refugees, 90% of whom are in seven United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camps
Netherlands:
none
Netherlands Antilles:
none
New Caledonia:
Matthew and Hunter Islands east of New Caledonia
claimed by France and Vanuatu
New Zealand:
territorial claim in Antarctica (Ross Dependency)
Nicaragua:
territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago
de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank; with respect to
the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ
referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed
Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution
among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required;
maritime boundary dispute with Honduras in the Caribbean Sea is
before the ICJ; legal dispute over navigational rights of San Juan
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