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Jan Mayen
| Location |
Between Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, NE of Iceland |
| Latitude and longitude |
73 00 N, 8 00 W |
| Sovereignty |
Norway |
| Population |
uninhabited |
| Land area in square kilometers |
373 |
| Capital |
Administered from Oslo |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Lov
om Jan Mayen (law relating to Jan Mayen) (Norwegian), from the
Lovdata Foundation |
| International Court of Justice, Case
Concerning Maritime
Delimitation in the Area Between Greenland and Jan Mayen
(Denmark v. Norway), 1988-1993 |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Jan Mayen, from the Norwegian Polar Institute
(select "The Arctic" from the menu on the left, then select
"Jan Mayen" from the Key Topics menu on the right) |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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