Claim: Antarctica is a country.
Evidence: Antarctica is a de facto condominium , governed by parties to the Antarctic Treaty System that have consulting status.
In international law , a condominium -LRB- plural either condominia , as in Latin , or condominiums -RRB- is a political territory -LRB- state or border area -RRB- in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium -LRB- in the sense of sovereignty -RRB- and exercise their rights jointly , without dividing it into ` national ' zones.