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Disputes - international

International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca

Illicit drugstransshipment point for cocaine; small amounts of marijuana produced for local consumption; significant use of cocaine
Refugees and internally displaced personsIDPs: 71,500 (2018)

Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021

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