Svalbard and Jan Mayen
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Svalbard and Jan Mayen are two separate parts of Norway located in the Arctic Ocean.
While Svalbard is an integrated part of Norway it is subject to international treaties and has a separate status in international law. It is administered by a governor reporting to the Norwegian Minister of Justice.
The remote island of Jan Mayen is also an integrated territory of Norway, but it does not enjoy any kind of special status like Svalbard. It is administered from the mainland by the county governor of Nordland, and does not have any immidiate geographic or otherwise administrative connection to Svalbard.
By virtue of the ISO 3166-1 code 'SJ', Svalbard and Jan Mayen has been grouped together and it has been allocated an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .sj. However residents use Norway's ccTLD, .no and .sj remains unused.
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