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Unincorporated unorganized territory. Compact of Free Association. In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia. This includes fourteen U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three sovereign states each with a ...
- Territories of the United States
The U.S. had no unincorporated territories (also known as...
- Unincorporated area
Insular areas. In the context of the insular areas of the...
- Territories of the United States
The U.S. had no unincorporated territories (also known as overseas possessions or insular areas) until 1856. Congress enacted the Guano Islands Act that year, authorizing the president to take possession of unclaimed islands to mine guano .
Insular areas. In the context of the insular areas of the United States, the word "unincorporated" refers to territories in which the United States Congress has determined that only selected parts of the Constitution of the United States apply and which have not been formally incorporated into the United States by Congress.
Commonwealth is a term used by two unincorporated territories of the United States in their full official names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English and Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in ...
Unincorporated, unorganized territory Main articles: Insular area and Territories of the United States The United States currently claims 16 insular areas as territories:
19. Okt. 2022 · An insular area is a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the fifty states nor a part of the District of Columbia, the nation's federal district . Because those insular areas that are inhabited are unincorporated territories, their native-born inhabitants are not constitutionally entitled to United States ...
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.
