- This article is about the collective term "Svalbard and Jan Mayen" as defined by the ISO. For details of the two separate territories, see Svalbard and Jan Mayen respectively.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen is a statistical designation defined by
ISO 3166-1[1] of two parts of
Norway located in the
Arctic Ocean under separate jurisdictions:
Svalbard and
Jan Mayen. While the two are combined for the purposes of the ISO category, they are not administratively related.
While the arctic archipelago of
Svalbard is under the full
sovereignty of Norway, it has a special status recognized by the
Svalbard Treaty,
[2] resulting in certain obligations and some differences in administration and international agreements by the Norwegian government. For instance, Svalbard is not covered by the
Schengen Agreement, which applies to the rest of Norway (including Jan Mayen). Immigrants may also work and live in Svalbard without a visa.
[3] Svalbard is administered by a governor reporting to the
Norwegian Minister of Justice.
The remote island of
Jan Mayen is an integrated territory of Norway, and it has none of the special considerations applicable to Svalbard. From 1930 to 1994 it was administered by the governor of Svalbard, and since 1995 it has been administered from the mainland by the county governor of
Nordland.
[4] Therefore, Jan Mayen does not have any immediate geographic (with the two territories about 1,000 km apart) or otherwise administrative connection to Svalbard.
There are indications that, given the creation of a separate ISO coding for Svalbard, it was the preference of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to include Jan Mayen.
[5]
The ISO designation is congruent with an equivalent
United Nations Statistics Division category and users of these classification systems may in some cases report separately for "Svalbard and Jan Mayen" instead of rolling up this information into the "Norway" category.
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By virtue of the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code 'SJ', Svalbard and Jan Mayen were grouped together and allocated the
Internet country code top-level domain (
ccTLD)
.sj. However, residents of Svalbard and Jan Mayen use
.no, Norway's ccTLD, while .sj remains unused.
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See Also
- List of special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement
References
Capital
(and largest city) Longyearbyen
Official languages Norwegian
Government Region of Norway
- Governor Per Sefland
Population
- estimate 2,214
Currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
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Jan Mayen Island
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Geography
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Location Arctic Ocean
Coordinates Coordinates:
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<onlyinclude> ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent territories, and is published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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MottoRoyal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")
AnthemJa, vi elsker
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- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Southern Ocean
The
Arctic Ocean, located in the northern hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five
..... Click the link for more information. Capital
(and largest city) Longyearbyen
Official languages Norwegian
Government Region of Norway
- Governor Per Sefland
Population
- estimate 2,214
Currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
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Jan Mayen Island
Native name: Jan Mayen<nowiki />
Geography
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Location Arctic Ocean
Coordinates Coordinates:
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Capital
(and largest city) Longyearbyen
Official languages Norwegian
Government Region of Norway
- Governor Per Sefland
Population
- estimate 2,214
Currency Norwegian krone (NOK)
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Sovereignty is the exclusive right to complete political (e.g. legislative, judicial, and/or executive) control over an area of governance, people, or oneself. A sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority, subject to no other.
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The Treaty concerning Spitsbergen of February 9 1920 declared the arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen (now called Svalbard) an overseas part of the Kingdom of Norway (article 1).
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Schengen Agreement is an agreement among some European countries which allows for the abolition of systematic border controls between the participating countries. It also includes provisions on common policy on the temporary entry of persons (including the Schengen Visa), the
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In Norway, the Minister of Justice and the Police is the head of the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and a member of Government of Norway. Current minister is Knut Storberget of the Norwegian Labour Party who is part of the second cabinet Stoltenberg.
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Jan Mayen Island
Native name: Jan Mayen<nowiki />
Geography
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Location Arctic Ocean
Coordinates Coordinates:
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Nordland (help info ) is a county in Norway, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) is overseen by the United Nations Statistical Commission.
UNSD publishes the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose.
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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes in the ISO 3166-1 standard to represent countries and dependent territories. They are published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as part of its ISO 3166 standard.
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Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government
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Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1.
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top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.
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A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.
ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
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.sj
Introduced 1997
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Inactive, but still in root.
Registry UNINETT Norid
Sponsor Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
Intended use Entities connected with Svalbard and Jan Mayen islands.
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.no
Introduced 1987
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry UNINETT Norid
Sponsor UNINETT Norid
Intended use Entities connected with Norway
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