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The de facto boundaries of a country are defined by the area that its government is actually able to enforce its laws in, and to defend against encroachments by other countries that may also claim the same territory de jure. The Durand Line is an example of a de facto boundary.
United Nations map of the Line of Control. The LoC is not defined near Siachen Glacier.. The Line of Control (LoC) is a military control line between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir—a line which does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary, but serves as the de facto border.
The agreement made it clear that there was an "ultimate solution to the boundary question between the two countries" which remained pending. It was also agreed that "the two sides agree that references to the line of actual control in this Agreement do not prejudice their respective positions on the boundary question".
De facto states can be understood as a product of the very system that excludes the possibility of their existence: the post-Second World War and post-colonial system of sovereign and equal states covering every centimeter of the globe. The hegemony of this system, at least until recent years, is what created the possibility of a de facto state ...
The de facto boundary between the United States and Russia is defined by the USSR–USA Maritime Boundary Agreement, negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1990, [1] covering the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Arctic Ocean. The agreement was never ratified by the Soviet Union before it dissolved, and it has never been ratified by the Russian State ...
A territorial dispute or boundary dispute is a disagreement ... which serves as the de facto ... Territorial disputes have significant meaning in the international ...
An urban agglomeration is the de facto population contained within the contours of a contiguous territory inhabited at urban density levels without regard to administrative boundaries’. Urban agglomerations are thus determined by density: the agglomeration ends where the density of settlement drops below some critical threshold.
Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt was subject to the rulers of the Ottoman Empire but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained the polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. [5]