List of intercontinental states

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The list of intercontinental states includes the 20 states whose territory is located on more than one continent. Only areas that are an integral part of the national territory and not dependent areas are taken into account.

States and their distribution on continents according to alphabet

Territorial claims in the Antarctic:
  • New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
  • AustraliaAustralia Australia
  • FranceFrance France
  • NorwayNorway Norway
  • United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
  • ChileChile Chile
  • ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
    • France and its overseas holdings.
    Islands of Greece belonging to Asia in a narrower sense (yellow).
    Boundaries between Asia and Oceania.
    А-F - Boundaries between Europe and Asia in Russia. The conventional limit (A) is marked in red.

    Remarks

    1. ↑ Taking into account also dependent areas, the United Kingdom alone would be represented on all continents (with the motherland, Isle of Man , the Channel Islands and Gibraltar in Europe, Akrotiri and Dekelia as well as the British Indian Ocean Territory in Asia, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in Africa, Bermuda in North America, Anguilla , the British Virgin Islands , the Cayman Islands , Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands in Central America, the Falkland Islands in South America, the Pitcairn Islands in Oceania and the British Antarctic Territory in Antarctica), followed by France, which since 1954 is no longer present in Asia. In third place came Australia, in addition to the in-Oceania outdoor areas Ashmore and Cartier Islands , Coral Sea Islands , Howe Island Lord , Macquarie Island and Norfolk Island the scoring with Asia Cocos and Christmas Island managed and in the Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Claimed territory . The United States has external territories in Central America ( US Virgin Islands , Puerto Rico , Navassa , Guantánamo Bay ) and Oceania ( American Samoa , Northern Mariana Islands , Guam , Baker Island , Howland Island , Jarvis Island , Johnston Island , Kingman Reef , Palmyra , Wake ). In addition to its outer areas in Oceania ( Cook Islands , Niue , Tokelau ), New Zealand also claims the Ross subsidiary area in Antarctica. Norway owns Bouvet Island , which lies between Africa and Antarctica, and claims Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land in Antarctica .
    2. ↑ In ancient times, the Nile was originally considered the border between Africa and Asia. However, Herodotus viewed Egypt as an Asian country and saw the country's western border as the border between the continents. Strabon, in turn, drew the Asian-African border from the Red Sea to Lake El Bardawil in the north of the Sinai Peninsula. Since the Middle Ages, the Isthmus of Suez has also been viewed as a continental border. This view has ultimately prevailed in modern times. See Bhagwat SB Foundation of geology. - Global Vision Publishing Ho, 2009. - Vol. 1, p. 218, ISBN 8182202752
    3. ↑ Under Muhammad Ali Pasha , Egypt extended in the first half of the 19th century. Century at times over three continents, when besides Syria and parts of the Arabian Peninsula from 1830-1840 also the European island of Crete was under Egyptian administration.
    4. ^ Through the constitutional reform of March 28, 2003, all overseas holdings became part of the national territory of France. Until then, since 1946, only the overseas departments of French Guiana , Guadeloupe , Martinique and Réunion, integral parts of the national territory and the departments of the mother country, were treated equally. The three coastal departments of Algeria, Algiers, Constantine and Oran, were not overseas territories from 1848 to 1962, but part of mainland France and thus formed an exclave of France in North Africa.
    5. ↑ The boundary between Europe and Asia in the Aegean Sea is not defined geographically. Classical geography viewed the Aegean Sea as a transition between the continents until modern times. Today, the political border between Greece and Turkey is commonly seen as the border between Europe and Asia, although many Greek islands are closer to the coast of Asia Minor than to mainland Greece. The island of Kastelorizo is only three kilometers off the coast of Asia Minor, but is 120 kilometers from the nearest Greek island of Rhodes .
    6. ↑ Immediately after the First World War, with the acquisition of Smyrna and its hinterland, due to the Peace of Sèvres , Greece also extended over parts of the Asian mainland. After the Greco-Turkish War , Greece lost its territories on the Asian mainland through the Peace of Lausanne in 1923 to Turkey.
    7. ↑ Before Indonesia's independence in 1949, the Dutch East Indies comprised its present territory and was thus also in Asia and Oceania, before Dutch colonial possessions in the region from 1949–1962 were limited to Dutch New Guinea in Oceania.
    8. ^ Before the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, only South Yemen was on two continents.
    9. ↑ Before the loss of Panama in 1903, part of Colombia lay west of the Isthmus of Panama in North America.
    10. ↑ In 1954 the previous Dutch colonies of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles received the status of autonomous parts of the Netherlands, with which the Netherlands were now represented in Europe, Central America and - until the independence of Suriname in 1975 - on the South American mainland.
    11. ↑ The Atratosenke is considered the conventional border between North and South America. Nevertheless, the Isthmus of Panama is often seen as a border. Cf. Meyers Lexikon online, article Central America: https://web.archive.org/web/20080409012756/http://lexikon.meyers.de/meyers/Zentral Amerika
    12. ↑ With the capture of Ceuta in 1415, Portugal established itself on the African continent for a long time. The properties were grouped under the name Algarve ultramar . In 1769 Portugal gave up its last exclave in the Maghreb with the city of Mazagão . It was not until the former colonies of Angola and Mozambique , which were part of the motherland from 1951 until their independence in 1975, that the Portuguese territory extended again across the African mainland.
    13. ↑ The Azores are about 1,300 km from the European, 1,900 km from the African and 2,300 km from the North American mainland. Geologically they lie at the intersection of the European , African and North American continental plates . The westernmost islands of Corvo and Flores are on the North American plate. However, the archipelago is counted as part of Europe.
    14. ↑ Madeira is located on the African continental plate and is 951 km from Lisbon and 737 km from the Moroccan coast.
    15. ↑ The conventional border between Europe and Asia in Russia is formed by the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Manytn Lowlands, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea. See Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st edition. FABrockhaus, Leipzig / Mannheim 2006. Article Europe: “The Urals have been the border between Europe and Asia since the 18th century ... Conventional borders with Asia are also formed by the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Manytn lowlands, the Black Sea, the Bosporus, the The Marmara Sea, the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea. ”Sometimes the main ridge of the Caucasus is also seen as the border between Europe and Asia. In this case, parts of the Asian states of Abkhazia , Azerbaijan and Georgia would be in Europe.
    16. ↑ The Russian Empire extended over three continents until the cession of Russian America to the United States in 1867.
    17. ↑ Turkey's predecessor, the Ottoman Empire , extended over three continents until the cession of Tripolitania , Cyrenaica and Fessan to Italy in 1912 and the annexation of Egypt by the United Kingdom in 1914.