For a territory of just 6.3m, this is quite a virile feat and a highly implausible one, say the government's critics.
Greenland, a territory of Denmark with a predominantly Inuit population, assumed self-rule in 2009, giving it control of its resources.
She was given a shiny black 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac (lease payments and fuel are gratis) and a territory of 14 Wal-Marts in central Illinois and Indiana.
The region is situated in the north of Quebec, between the 55th and 62nd N parallels and spans a territory of 660, 000 sq km (255, 000 sq miles) - larger than France.
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With a population of just 650, 000 and a territory the size of Northern Ireland, the mountainous mini-state would be a midget on its own.
In a misbegotten effort to promote peace, the Colombian government three years ago gave the FARC control of a piece of territory the size of Switzerland.
The American independence movement had inspired Mexican leaders of that era and since Mexico, in fact, also was a territory composed of states, the name stuck and became official in 1824.
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As the first governor of Utah he preferred the Mormon name Deseret he ruled more or less alone over a huge chunk of Western territory, including a lot of what is today Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada.
They no doubt had a hand, too, in drafting the stern letter that Mr Putin sent to the United Nations, laying out his case for intervention in neighbouring Georgia unless its government clears its territory of a group of Chechen terrorists who have holed up there.
While these may have a certain appeal in and of themselves, the real attraction of these activities is as a means for exploring the inner and uninhabited reaches of Svalbard, a territory with less than 50km of roads.
He said she wanted to know if it was "a targeted assassination of a British citizen committed by agents of a foreign state in the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom".
The syntax of the reservation is uncertain, but it is clear that such a state will be a sort of Palestinian bantustan, a farcical territory at the mercy of the Israeli puppeteers with only the power to issue its own pretty stamps.
The Rome Statute outlines the preconditions for the ICC's assertion of jurisdiction, stating that the Court theoretically may assert jurisdiction when the accused is a national of a State party, or the alleged crimes were committed on the territory of a State party.
The most likely scenario for a referral to the ICC crimes are committed on the territory of a State party does not require that the accused be a national of a State party.
The most likely scenario for a referral to the ICC -- crimes are committed on the territory of a State party -- does not require that the accused be a national of a State party.
It is a national policy to raise forest cover to a third of Indian territory from a fifth now.
In the winter war of 1939-1940 the plucky Finns held off Soviet invaders, forcing the Kremlin to settle for a slice of its territory rather than all of it.
In practice, that accord precluded the United States from deploying any missile defense of its territory - a state of grace Democratic legislators and operatives were horrified to see President Bush abandon in December 2001 with the formal abrogation of the ABM Treaty and the subsequent installation of interceptors and radars at two sites, one in Alaska and the other in California.
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Election experts say it is unlikely the ballots will be able to reach the remote interior of a country where some 60, 000 polling stations are spread out over a territory the size of Western Europe.
Should it be an improved form of ground-based interceptor capable of defending a limited piece of high value territory, say a city or perhaps a state?
Colombia's defence minister resigned , in disagreement with a government decision to allow left-wing guerrillas to remain in control of a large chunk of jungle territory.
This detective story is a thrilling and eerily suggestive tour of a territory whose boundaries are maddeningly elusive, murderously fluid.
Pushed or not, Georgia's president would not have fallen for the bait if he were not reckless and willing to gain control by force of a territory that does not want to be part of Georgia.
The negotiations between Palestine and Israel have yet to define a territory, and a key part of the territory contemplated by the U.N. vote, Gaza, is actually controlled not by the Palestinian Authority, but by the terrorist organization Hamas.
It was convinced that its long-held theory that under the salt weld in the Gulf of Mexico was prime territory for a lot of trapped hydrocarbons.
Taken together, what Molcho's statement and Netanyahu's statement indicate is that at a minimum, in exchange for peace, the Netanyahu government is willing to expel some portion of the 350, 000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria from their homes and to transfer sovereignty over a significant portion of the territory to a Palestinian state.
Or, God forbid, a criminal who has come to case the territory for a gang of burglars?
The last stage of the Wye withdrawals would leave a few Israeli settlements isolated in Arab-controlled territory, causing a lot of fuss and bother, presumably including a new chequer-board criss-crossed by settler-only roads.
The transitional government holds the capital, Mogadishu, while the Shabab still runs a swathe of territory around it.
One candidate being mentioned is Abdul Rashid Dostam, who controlled a slice of territory until it was taken by the Taliban.
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