List of territorial disputes

Columns: Territory | Former claimants | Dispute started | Dispute settled | Notes
Tiran and Sanafir Islands | Saudi Arabia Egypt | 1906 | 2017 | These islands were transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2017 | Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary between Bangladesh and India | India Bangladesh | 1974 | 2014 | India and Bangladesh had engaged in eight rounds of bilateral negotiations starting 1974 but it remained inconclusive until 2009 . In October 2009 , Bangladesh served India with notice of arbitration proceedings under the UNCLOS . The Arbitration Tribunal delivered the ruling on 7 July 2014 and settled the dispute | Indo-Bangladesh enclaves , adverse possessions and undemarcated land boundaries | India Bangladesh | 1947 | 2015 | Following Partition of Bengal ( 1947 ) , the issues of adverse possessions , enclaves and unmarked boundary arose . Inside the main part of Bangladesh , there were 111 Indian enclaves ( 17,160.63 acres ) , while inside the main part of India , there were 51 Bangladeshi enclaves ( 7,110.02 acres ) . In 1974 Bangladesh approved a proposed treaty , Land Boundary Agreement , to exchange all enclaves within each other 's territories , but India did not ratify it . Another agreement was agreed upon in 2011 to exchange enclaves and adverse possessions . With respect to adverse possessions , India received 2,777.038 acres of land and transferred 2,267.682 acres to Bangladesh . India ratified the agreement by constitutional amendment in May 2015 | Muhurichar river island | India Bangladesh | 1974 | 2011 | Historically controlled by India but claimed by Bangladesh , disputed from approximately 1974 . An agreement was reached on the demarcation of the border in the area in 2011 , and in 2019 the Indian government confirmed that it no longer had any outstanding boundary dispute with Bangladesh | South Talpatti/New Moore/Purbasha Island | India Bangladesh | c. 1975 | 2010 | This former dispute over a small island never more than two meters above sea level was contested from the island 's appearance in the 1970s to its disappearance , likely due to climate change , in the first decade of the 2000s . Though land disputes no longer exist , the maritime boundary was not settled until 2014 | Sakhalin Island | Russian Empire Empire of Japan | 1845 | 1875 | Japan unilaterally proclaimed sovereignty over the whole island in 1845 , but its claims were ignored by the Russian Empire . The 1855 Treaty of Shimoda acknowledged that both Russia and Japan had joint rights of occupation to Sakhalin , without setting a definite territorial demarcation . As the island became settled in the 1860s and 1870s , this ambiguity led to increasing friction between settlers . Attempts by the Tokugawa shogunate to purchase the entire island from the Russian Empire failed , and the new Meiji government was unable to negotiate a partition of the island into separate territories . In 1875 by the Treaty of Saint Petersburg , Japan agreed to give up its claims on Sakhalin in exchange for undisputed ownership of the Kuril Islands . In 1905 under the Treaty of Portsmouth Japan gained Sakhalin to the 60th parallel , but lost it again in 1945 | Pamir Mountains | Tajikistan China | 1877 | 2011 | The Tajik Government ceded 1,158 square kilometres ( 447 sq mi ) to the PRC , while PRC relinquished its 28,000 square miles ( 73,000 km ) claim over the remaining territory with final ratification of a treaty in January 2011 | Palmas Island ( modern-day Miangas Island ) | Philippine Islands Dutch East Indies | 1906 | 1928 | Dispute between the United States and the Netherlands over the Palmas island located south of the Philippines , which was then American territory . The Netherlands believed that the islands were part of the Dutch East Indies . The territorial dispute was solved through the Island of Palmas case which decided that the Palmas Island belongs to the Netherlands . Palmas Island , now Miangas Island , is a part of modern Indonesia | Yalu River ( disputed sovereignty of certain islands ) | China North Korea South Korea | 1949 | 2005 | The allocation to North Korea of all of the large islands in the lower Yalu River , including Pidan and Sindo at the mouth , is now clear . The river 's maritime rights remain shared between the two nations

Example questions:
Who are the territorial disputes former claimants of the territory that occupies an area of 2,172,000 square kilometres ( 839,000 sq mi ) ? | What is the territory whose territorial disputes former claimants produced timber for export ? | What is the year the territorial disputes started of the territory that is also known as Miangas ? | What is the territory whose territorial disputes notes event was signed on September 5 , 1905 after negotiations lasting from August 6 to August 30 ?

Answers:
India Bangladesh | Turtle Islands | 1906 | Sakhalin Island