The Faroe Islands, a territory of Denmark, is also treated as a non-Party to CITES.

In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

The site of Hedeby is located in the Duchy of Schleswig, which was traditionally the personal territory of the kings of Denmark.

* 1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $ 25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.

As a compensation for territory thus withdrawn, the Danish archbishop of Lund was made legate and perpetual vicar and given the title of primate of Denmark and Sweden.

Unlike Poland, Norway was considered " Aryan " in Hitlerian ideology, and unlike Denmark it was further off, nearer Britain, and did not share a land border with any territory under German control.

Also in 1814, Denmark – Norway was defeated by Great Britain and Sweden and had to cede the territory of mainland Norway to the King of Sweden at the Treaty of Kiel.

* February 26 – The peace between Sweden and Denmark is concluded in Roskilde by the Treaty of Roskilde, under which Denmark is forced to cede significant territory.

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

A succession crisis arose as Frederick ruled in both Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, and the succession rules of each territory differed.

In 1985, the island became the only territory to leave the European Union, which it had joined as a part of Denmark in 1973.

Valdemar and Absalon built Denmark into a major power in the Baltic Sea, a power which later competed with the Hanseatic League, the counts of Holstein, and the Teutonic Knights for trade, territory, and influence throughout the Baltic.

Hans Island, in the Nares Strait east of Ellesmere Island, is a territory currently contested between Canada and Denmark.

Claims that undersea geographic features are extensions of a country's continental shelf are also used to support claims ; for example the Denmark / Greenland claim on territory to the North Pole, some of which is disputed by Canada.

From 1773 all of Holstein was united in personal union with Denmark and remained so until 1864, when, following the Second Schleswig War, the Duchies of Holstein and of Schleswig became an occupied territory of the German Confederation.

It is believed that the effect of this achievement on the Danish government found expression in the Treaty of Taastrup on 18 February, and in the Treaty of Roskilde ( 26 February 1658 ), whereby Denmark sacrificed a great part of her territory to save the rest.

Winston Churchill claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues and played both sides for profit, a criticism mimicked in criticism towards Sweden's policy towards the German occupation of Denmark and Norway upheld partly by transportation reinforcement through Swedish territory, sanctioned by Hansson's cabinet.

When, on September 14, 1714, he suddenly returned to his dominions, Stralsund and Wismar were all that remained to him of his continental possessions ; while by the end of 1715 Sweden, now fast approaching the last stage of exhaustion, was at open war with Great Britain, Hanover, Russia, Prussia, Saxony and Denmark, who had formed a coalition to partition her continental territory between them.

In 1424, Emperor Sigismund ruled, based on the fact that the people of Schleswig spoke Danish, followed Danish customs and considered themselves to be Danes, that the territory rightfully belonged to the King of Denmark.

Holstein was part of the territory of the German Confederation, with which an annexation of whole Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark would have been incompatible.

After Germany had lost World War II there again was a possibility that Denmark could reacquire some of its lost territory in Schleswig.

The territory includes Ashmore Reef ( West, Middle, and East Islets ) and Cartier Island ( 70 km east ) with, a total area of within the reefs and including the lagoons, and 114, 400 m² of dry land.

Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island.

( a ) ' High Court ' means the high court for a state or a union territory and includes the court of the judicial commissioner in any union territory.

The Ravenna Cosmography includes the last two names ( in slightly different forms, as " Tamaris " and " Uxelis "), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

The history of Spain involves all the other peoples and nations within the Iberian peninsula formerly known as Hispania, and includes still today the nations of Andorra, Portugal and Spain, and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

The national territory also includes the small Bonin or Ogasawara Islands, which include Iwo Jima and the Volcano Islands ( Kazan Retto ), stretching some 1, 100 kilometers from the main islands.

Kuwait includes, within its territory, nine islands in the Persian Gulf, two of which, Bubiyan ( the largest ) and Warbah, are largely uninhabited but strategically important.

Organizationally, says Sega Sissoko, is the only battalion of Ségou and includes units scattered across the territory.

The territory of Moldova includes the separatist Transnistria region.

Representing roughly 60 % of Peru's national territory, this area includes the Amazon, Marañón, Huallaga and Ucayali Rivers.

There was one case where a defendant was served while the airplane was in the air over the forum State, and the US Supreme Court held that this was valid service, since at law the territory of a state includes the airspace above the State.

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

note: includes 1, 295 km² of Israeli-occupied territory

Tristan da Cunha () is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Saint Helena to its north, and equatorial Ascension Island even farther removed.

Socially and politically, the Arctic region includes the northern territories of the eight Arctic states, although by natural science definitions much of this territory is considered subarctic.

The Vardar basin includes two-thirds of the territory of the Republic of Macedonia.

The territory includes the historical region of Gallura (" Gaddura "), the northeastern coast of Sardinia (" Costa Smeralda "), and the island of La Maddalena (" A Madalena ").

Exiles are more often than not diasporic or displaced communities or persons who have fled their native territory or homeland to somewhere else and are usually in this position due to the ramifications of war or other major political upheavals and sometimes this includes the influence of colonization.

Among other things, the ecclesiastical primatical territory today continues to be larger because of the history: it includes part of modern Montenegro, notably around Bar, the ( honorary ) Roman Catholic primas of Dalmatia, but an exempt archbishopric without suffragans while the archbishoprics of Split ( also a historical primas of Dalmatia ) have provincial authority over all Croatian dioceses except the exempt archbishopric of Zadar.

Its territory includes Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia, as well as South Africa, the biggest market of the five.

Georgia is the most extensive state east of the Mississippi River in terms of land area, although it is the fourth most extensive ( after Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin ) in total area, a term which includes expanses of water which are part of state territory.

Kwakwaka ' wakw territory includes northern and northwestern Vancouver Island and adjoining areas of the mainland, the Nuu-chah-nulth span most of the west coast, while the Coast Salish cover the southeastern Island and southernmost extremities along the Straits of Juan de Fuca.