Argentina is beginning to beat the drums again about its claim on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are under British rule.
A lesser-known fact is that China also claims ownership of over 100 other islands, many of them uninhabited, that are now parts of Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, The Philippines, Myanmar, and Malaysia.
Even less known is Taiwan's claim of ownership of the Senkaku Islands, administered by Japan.
Further south, Comoros claims ownership of the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, while Madagascar asks France to withdraw from uninhabited islands close to the Malagasy coast.
Arguably some of the most outlandish irredentist claims come from Turkey, which talks of regaining ownership of Mosul and Kirkuk in Iraq, and parts of Syria inhabited by Kurds.
Syria, or the shadow still left under President Bashar al-Assad's control, maintains an old claim of sovereignty over the Turkish province of al-Iskenderun.
The latest irredentist dispute to heat things up comes from Venezuela, which claims sovereignty over the oil-rich Essequibo region that belongs to Guyana.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20254/territorial-disputes
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