As a group of islands they are fully autonomous in internal affairs and constitutionally equal with the Netherlands.
The radar incident happened near a group of islands in the East China Sea which both countries claim.
They were about 150km (95 miles) from a group of islands at the centre of a dispute between Japan and China.
They have been hurt by a territorial dispute between Beijing and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea.
The best that evolutionary biologists can do is usually to point to groups of species that have plainly diversified recently, usually on a group of islands.
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Compean received a resounding endorsement of his colleagues in Central America and a group of islands in the Caribbean, including Cuba and Dominican Republic, but it was not enough.
For instance, after the Papua New Guinea tsunami, an international team was dispatched to Vanuatu, a group of islands in the Pacific, where they showed videos of tsunamis to the villagers.
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However, the dispute centred around a group of islands in the East China Sea, which flared up late last year, has hurt relations between the two countries and seen Japan's exports to China decline.
The results were the first production gains for the three biggest Japanese auto makers since a territorial row over a group of islands in the East China Sea led to boycotts of Japanese goods in September.
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Rural motorists on the British mainland hoping for a slice of the government's fuel rebate - launched this week on the Isles of Scilly and a group of Scottish Islands - probably shouldn't hold their breath.
Tuvalu is a group of nine islands lying about half-way between Hawaii and Australia.
Tokyo and Beijing have been at loggerheads over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
The reptiles are unique to a small group of islands in eastern Indonesia.
The Netherlands Antilles is a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Japan and Taiwan have signed a deal allowing Taiwan to fish near a group of disputed islands, prompting China to express "extreme concerns".
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Before the ink on the law had dried, China upgraded the administrative status of Sansha City, encompassing a group of disputed islands in the South China Sea, and established a military garrison.
Mr Panetta took the opportunity to announce a delayed timeframe for planned cuts to the Lajes Air Base in Portugal's Azores, a group of nine volcanic islands located almost 1, 000 miles (1, 600km) west of the Iberian peninsula.
In August last year, a group of Hong Kong activists landed on one of the islands and were then deported, followed shortly afterwards by a group of Japanese activists.
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Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a rancorous dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
Since last summer, Japan has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with China over a group of small East China Sea islands.
At the time, China and Japan were embroiled in their worst diplomatic row in recent years over a group of uninhabited, but disputed, islands in the East China Sea.
This completed a hat-trick: on May 25th, a report on bank supervision from the Financial Stability Forum, a group of international regulators, had ranked the islands in the lowest grade.
It began in 1992 when a small group of recreational divers and marine biologists gathered in California's Channel Islands National Park to conduct a standardized fish count.
In 2004 Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, did so when a group of Chinese activists landed on one of the islands (he simply had them deported).
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The 200 or so Moken living on the Surin Islands are part of a larger ethnic group spread out across the Mergui Archipelago off the coasts of Burma and Thailand.
One of those involves an increasingly shrill argument with the Philippines about who has sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal, a group of rocks in the South China Sea called the Huangyan Islands by China.
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