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===Norway=== {{Main|List of possessions of Norway}} {{Further|Svalbard and Jan Mayen}} [[Norway]] has, in the Arctic, one inhabited archipelago with restrictions placed on Norwegian sovereignty โ [[Svalbard]].<ref name="SpitsTreaty">{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Spitsbergen_Treaty#Article_3.|title=Spitsbergen Treaty|publisher=[[Wikisource]]|date=9 February 1920|access-date=16 November 2020|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="GovSval">{{cite web|url=http://www.sysselmannen.no/hovedEnkel.aspx?m=45301|title=The Svalbard Treaty|publisher=[[Governor of Svalbard]]|date=9 April 2008|access-date=24 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723003932/http://www.sysselmannen.no/hovedEnkel.aspx?m=45301|archive-date=23 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Unlike the country's dependent territory ([[Bouvet Island]]) and Antarctic claims ([[#Norway|see above]]), Svalbard is a part of the Kingdom of Norway.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Skagestad |first1=Odd Gunnar |editor1-last=Skreslet |editor1-first=Stig |title=Jan Mayen Island in Scientific Focus |date=2004 |publisher=Springer Netherlands |isbn=978-1-4020-2955-4 |page=272 |url=http://www.ogskagestad.info/attachments/File/JanMayenSciFocus04.pdf |access-date=15 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104210815/http://www.ogskagestad.info/attachments/File/JanMayenSciFocus04.pdf |archive-date=4 January 2014 |chapter=The Scope for Norwegian Commitments Related to International Research on Jan Mayen Island}}</ref> Norway also has one uninhabited remote archipelago located in the Arctic, [[Jan Mayen]], but it is excluded in this list as the island is directly administered by the [[Nordland County Municipality]] and none of the considerations established for Svalbard Treaty are attributed to it. {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Territory !! Administration !! ISO 3166 country code |- | {{flag|Svalbard}}|| This Arctic archipelago is the northernmost permanent civilian settlement in the world. Not incorporated into any county, it is administered by a [[Governor of Svalbard|governor]] appointed by the Norwegian government. Since 2002, its main settlement of [[Longyearbyen]] has [[Longyearbyen Community Council|elected a local government]]. Other settlements include the Russian mining community of [[Barentsburg]], the research station of [[Ny-ร lesund]], and the mining outpost of [[Sveagruva]]. The [[Svalbard Treaty]] of 1920 recognises Norwegian sovereignty (administered since 1925 as a sovereign part of the Kingdom of Norway) but established Svalbard as a [[free economic zone]]<ref name="SpitsTreaty"/> and a [[demilitarized zone|demilitarised zone]]. ||| [[ISO 3166-2:SJ|SJ]] ''or''<br>[[ISO 3166-2:NO|NO-21]] |}
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