Disputes - international:
Norway asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Queen Maud Land and its continental shelf); Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission; Norway and Russia signed a comprehensive maritime boundary agreement in 2010
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin):
15,456 (Eritrea), 11,498 (Syria), 7,527 (Somalia), 6,490 (Afghanistan) (2017)
stateless persons:
3,282 (2017)