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A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State, and remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area.

A dependency is commonly distinguished from other subnational entities in that they are not considered to be part of the integral territory of the governing State. A subnational entity typically represents a division of the Stateproper, while a dependent territory often maintains a great degree of autonomy from the controlling State. Historically, most colonies were considered to be dependencies of their controlling State. Most of these have either become independent, by joining neighbouring independent countries, or assimilated into the conquering state. The dependencies that remain generally maintain a very high degree of political autonomy. Although dependencies retain a degree of autonomy, not all autonomous entities are considered to be dependencies.

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The United Nations Trusteeship Agreements or were listed by the General Assembly as Non-Self-Governing. (official document 2002)

Many political entities have a special position recognized by international treaty or agreement resulting in a certain level of autonomy or differences in immigration rules. These are sometimes considered dependencies, but are officially considered by their controlling states to be integral parts of the state. Examples are Åland of Finland, Svalbard of Norway, the Azores and Madeira of Portugal, and Hong Kong and Macau of the People's Republic of China.

Lists of dependent territories

World map of dependent territories

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CHI

DAN

FRA

NED

NZL

NOR

GBR

USA

Dependency claims without general international recognition, including all claims in Antarctica, are listed in italics. The list includes several territories that are not included in the list of non-self-governing territories listed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This list includes only those territories that are legally classified as dependencies by their respective sovereign government.

Australia

See also: States and territories of Australia

Although all territories of Australia are considered to be fully integrated in its federative system, and the official status of an external territory does not differ largely from that of a mainland territory (except in regards to immigration law), debate remains as to whether the external territories are integral parts of Australia, due to their not being part of Australia in 1901, when its constituent states federated. They are often listed separately for statistical purposes.

Inhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Christmas Island	Administered from Canberra by the Attorney-General's Department.	CX CXR 162
Cocos (Keeling) Islands		CC CCK 166
Norfolk Island	Commonwealth responsibilities administered from Canberra through the Attorney-General's Department.	NF NFK 574
Uninhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Ashmore and Cartier Islands	Administered from Canberra by the Attorney-General's Department.	no separate code
Coral Sea Islands		no separate code
Australian Antarctic Territory	Administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage.	no separate code
Heard Island and McDonald Islands		HM HMD 334

New Zealand

See also: Realm of New Zealand

In free association	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Cook Islands	Self-governing state in free association with New Zealand since 1965. The Cook Islands are fully responsible for their internal affairs; New Zealand, in consultation, retains some responsibility for external affairs and defence. As of 2005, the Cook Islands have diplomatic relations in their own name with eighteen countries.	CK COK 184
Niue	Self-governing state in free association with New Zealand since 1974. Niue is fully responsible for its internal affairs; New Zealand retains responsibility for external affairs and defence. New Zealand's responsibilities confer no rights of control and are only exercised at the request of the Government of Niue.	NU NIU 570
Territory	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Tokelau	Territory of New Zealand. As it moves toward free association with New Zealand, Tokelau and New Zealand have agreed to a draft constitution. A UN-sponsored referendum on self-governance in February 2006 did not produce the two-thirds supermajority necessary for changing the current political status. Another one was in October 2007, which failed to reach the 2/3 margin.	TK TKL 772
Ross Dependency	No permanent population. New Zealand's Antarctic claim.	no separate code

Norway

See also: Dependencies of Norway

Dependency	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Bouvet Island	No permanent population. Dependency administered from Oslo by the Polar Affairs Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police.	BV BVT 074
Peter I Island	No permanent population. Dependencies (subject to the Antarctic Treaty System) administered from Oslo by the Polar Affairs Department of the Ministry of Justice and the Police.	no separate code
Queen Maud Land		no separate code

United Kingdom

See also: British overseas territories, Crown dependency, and Sovereign Base Areas

Overseas territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Anguilla	British overseas territories.	AI AIA 660
Cayman Islands		KY CYM 136
Gibraltar		GI GIB 292
Montserrat		MS MSR 500
Pitcairn Islands		PN PCN 612
Turks and Caicos Islands		TC TCA 796
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha		SH SHN 654
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands		GS SGS 239
Bermuda	British overseas territory or self-governing territory as defined by the UK.	BM BMU 060
British Antarctic Territory	No permanent population. The UK's Antarctic claim.	no separate code
British Indian Ocean Territory	No indigenous inhabitants. British overseas territory administered by a commissioner resident in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.	IO IOT 086
British Virgin Islands	British overseas territory with internal self-government.	VG VGB 092
Falkland Islands	British overseas territory. Falkland Islands also administers South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands through the Governor of the Falkland Islands as representative of the British monarch.	FK FLK 238
Sovereign Base Areas	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Akrotiri and Dhekelia	British overseas territory administered by the Commander of British Forces, Cyprus. Note: SBAs are primarily required as military bases and not ordinary dependent territories.	no separate code
Crown dependencies	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Guernsey	Responsibility for defence, international representation, and good government rests with the United Kingdom. Though, the Parliament of the United Kingdom can legislate on their behalf, if it deems necessary.	GG GGY 831
Jersey		JE JEY 832
Isle of Man		IM IMN 833

United States

See also: Insular area and Territories of the United States

Inhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
American Samoa	Unincorporated and unorganized territory administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Appears on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.	AS ASM 016
Guam	Unincorporated organized territory; policy relations between Guam and the U.S. conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Appears on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.	GU GUM 316
Northern Mariana Islands	Commonwealth in political union with the U.S.; federal funding administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior.	MP MNP 580
Puerto Rico	Unincorporated organized territory of the U.S. with commonwealth status; policy relations between Puerto Rico and the U.S. conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President.	PR PRI 630
U.S. Virgin Islands	Unincorporated organized territory; policy relations between the Virgin Islands and the U.S. conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Appears on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.	VI VIR 850
Uninhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Baker Island	Unorganized and unincorporated territory administered from Washington, D.C. by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior.	UM UMI 581
Bajo Nuevo Bank	Unincorporated territory of the U.S. administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Currently controlled by Colombia, and also claimed by Jamaica and Nicaragua.
Howland Island	Unorganized and unincorporated territory administered from Washington, D.C. by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior.
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Island
Navassa Island	Unincorporated territory of the U.S. administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior from the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Boquerón, Puerto Rico. Claimed byHaiti and privately via the Guano Islands Act.
Serranilla Bank	Unincorporated territory of the U.S. administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Currently controlled by Colombia, and also claimed by Honduras and Nicaragua.
Wake Island	Supervised by the U.S. Air Force, administered from Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and is claimed by the Marshall Islands.

Lists of other entities

This list includes entities that are NOT considered legally dependencies, however sometimes are described as such. All they have their own country codes.

China

See also: Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Hong Kong	Special administrative region of China, integral part of the country. It has its Basic Law, and in both basic laws there is an article stating that the territory is a "local administrative region of the People's Republic of China, which shall enjoy a high degree of autonomy and come directly under the Central People's Government."	HK HKG 344
Macau		MO MAC 446

Denmark

See also: Rigsfællesskabet

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Faroe Islands	Self-governing overseas administrative division since 1948. Part of Denmark, but not of the European Union.	FO FRO 234
Greenland	Self-governing overseas administrative division since 1979. Part of Denmark. Withdrew from the European Economic Community in 1986.	GL GRL 304

Finland

See also: Administrative divisions of Finland

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Åland	The Åland Islands are governed according to the Act on the Autonomy of Åland and international treaties. These laws guarantee the islands' autonomy from Finland, which has ultimate sovereignty over them, as well as a demilitarized status	AX ALA 248

France

See also: Overseas departments and territories of France

Inhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
French Guiana	Overseas departments.	GF GUF 254
Guadeloupe		GP GLP 312
Martinique		BL BLM 652
Mayotte		MQ MTQ 474
Réunion		RE REU 638
French Polynesia	Overseas collectivity since 2003; Overseas country since 2004.	PF PYF 258
New Caledonia	"Sui generis" collectivity since 1999; appears on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.	NC NCL 540
Saint Barthélemy	Overseas collectivities since 2007.	BL BLM 652
Saint Martin		MF MAF 663
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Territorial collectivity since 1985; overseas collectivity since 2003.	SM SPM 666
Wallis and Futuna	Overseas territory since 1961; overseas collectivity since 2003.	WF WLF 876
Uninhabited territories	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Clipperton Island	Island administered by the Minister for Overseas Territories. No permanent population.	no separate code
French Southern and Antarctic Lands	The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (called TAAF for Terres australes et antartiques françaises) is an Overseas territory since 1955, administered from Paris by an Administrateur Supérieur. No permanent population. Includes the French territorial claim in Antarctica: Adelie Land.	TF ATF 260

Netherlands

See also: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Aruba	Defined as a "country" ("land") within the Kingdom of the Netherlands by the Statute of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Aruba obtained full autonomy in internal affairs upon separation from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. Curaçao and Sint Maarten were part of the Netherlands Antilles until it was dissolved in October 2010. The government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands virtually but not entirely coincides with the government of the Netherlands, and is responsible for defence, foreign affairs and nationality law. Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands but not of the European Union although its citizens are Citizens of the European Union.	AW ABW 533
Curaçao		CW CUW 531
Sint Maarten		SX SXM 534
Bonaire	Following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in October 2010,Bonaire,Saba and Sint Eustatius became legally integrated with the Netherlands as special municipalities.	BQ BES 535
Saba
Sint Eustatius

Norway

See also: Administrative divisions of Norway

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Svalbard	Svalbard is subject to an international treaty with some limits to Norwegian sovereignty.	SJ SJM 744
Jan Mayen	Jan Mayen shares county governor (fylkesmann) with Nordland county.

United States

See also: Incorporated_territory § Incorporated_unorganized_territories

Division	Administration	ISO 3166 country code
Palmyra Atoll	Unorganized and incorporated territory administered from Washington, D.C. by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior.	UM UMI 581

Description

Three Crown dependencies are in a form of association with the UK. They are independently administrated jurisdictions, although the British Government is solely responsible for defence and international representation, and has ultimate responsibility for ensuring good government. They do not have diplomatic recognition as independent states, but they are not an integrated part of the UK, nor do they form part of the European Union. The UK Parliament retains the ability to legislate for the Crown dependencies even without the agreement of the insular legislatures. None of the Crown dependencies has representatives in the UK Parliament. Bermuda and Gibraltar have similar relationships to the UK as the Crown dependencies. While Britain is officially responsible for defence and international representation, these jurisdictions maintain their own militaries and have been granted limited diplomatic powers, in addition to having internal self-government. Nevertheless, they areBritish overseas territories.

New Zealand and dependencies share the same Governor-General and constitute one realm. The Cook Islands and Niue are officially termed associate states.

Puerto Rico (since 1952) and the Northern Mariana Islands (since 1986) are non-independent states freely associated with the USA. The mutually negotiated Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) in Political Union with the United States was approved in 1976. The Covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred United States citizenship on legally qualified CNMI residents.

Under the Constitution of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is described as a Commonwealth and Puerto Ricans have a degree ofadministrative autonomy similar to citizens of a U.S. state. Puerto Ricans "were collectively madeU.S. citizens" in 1917 as a result of the Jones-Shafroth Act.The commonly used name in Spanish of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, literally "Associated Free State of Puerto Rico", which sounds similar to "free association" particularly when loosely used in Spanish, is sometimes erroneously interpreted to mean that Puerto Rico's relationship with United States is based on a Compact of Free Association and at other times erroneously held to mean that Puerto Rico's relationship with United States is based on an Interstate compact. This is a constant source of ambiguity and confusion when trying to define, understand and explain Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States. For various reasons Puerto Rico's political status differs from that of the Pacific Islands that entered into Compacts of Free Association with the United States. As sovereign states, these islands have full right to conduct their own foreign relations, while the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has territorial status subject to United States congressional authority under the Constitution's Territory Clause, “to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory… belonging to the United States.”. Puerto Rico does not have the right to unilaterally declare independence, and at the last referendum (1998) the narrow majority voted for "none of the above", which was a formally undefined alternative used by commonwealth supporters to express their desire for an "enhanced commonwealth" option.

This kind of relationship also can be found in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is a federacy. Thecontinental part is organized like a unitary state but the status of its territories (Aruba, since 1986, and the Netherlands Antilles, since 1954 until 2010) can be considered dependencies or "associated non-independent states". After the split-up of the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao and Saint Maarten are separate associated states like Aruba.

Additionally, Denmark operates in a similar manner to a federacy. The Faroes and Greenland are two self-governing territories, or regions within the Kingdom. The relationship between Denmark proper and the two territories is semi-officially termed the "Rigsfællesskabet".

See also

• Associated state
• Colonisation
• Colony
• Condominium
• Federacy
• List of autonomous areas by country
• List of current dependent territory leaders
• List of sovereign states
• List of special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement
• Suzerainty
• Table of administrative divisions by country
• Territorial claims in Antarctica
• United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories

References

• George Drower, Britain's Dependent Territories, Dartmouth, 1992
• George Drower, Overseas Territories Handbook, TSO, 1998

 This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA.

External links

• WorldStatesmen- includes former dependent states