Island state

an island state is a State of, that from one or more islands consists and/or of or several part (EN) one or several islands, not however from the mainland of a continent. They differ thereby from the within and Coastal states. Of that at present altogether 194 sovereigns states of the world (conditions: 2004) is appropriate 47 on for one or more islands.

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