Outside United States
The outer areas of the United States (officially the outer areas under the sovereignty of the United States of America , English the Outlying Territories under the Jurisdiction of the United States of America ) are a designation for the following archipelagos and islands , broken down by location ( Caribbean and American Oceania in the Pacific ):
Caribbean
flag | Archipelago or island | official status | Land area (km²) |
Water surface (km²) |
Residents | Taking possession | Coordinates |
ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Puerto Rico | organized, non-involved area | 8,959 | - | 3,994,259 | 1898 | 18 ° 15 ′ N , 66 ° 30 ′ W. | PR | |
American Virgin Islands | organized, non-involved area | 349 | - | 108.605 | 1917 | 18 ° 20 ′ N , 64 ° 50 ′ W. | VI | |
Navassa 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 5.2 | - | 0 | 1857 | UM-76 |
former:
- Swan Islands (1857–1972)
Pacific
flag | Archipelago or island | official status | Land area (km²) |
Lagoon (km²) |
Residents | Taking possession | Coordinates |
ISO 3166-1 ISO 3166-2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Guam | organized, non-involved area | 549 | - | 168,564 | 1898 | 13 ° 24 ' N , 144 ° 43' E | GU | |
Northern Mariana Islands | organized, non-involved area | 463.64 | - | 44,582 | 1945 | 16 ° 8 ' N , 145 ° 45' E | MP | |
American Samoa | unorganized, uninvolved area | 199 | - | 57,881 | 1899 | 14 ° 17 ′ S , 170 ° 42 ′ W | AS | |
- | Baker Island 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 1.64 | - | 0 | 1857 | 0 ° 12 ′ N , 176 ° 29 ′ W. | UM-81 |
- | Howland Island 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 1.85 | - | 0 | 1857 | 0 ° 48 ′ N , 176 ° 37 ′ W. | UM-84 |
- | Jarvis Island 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 4.50 | - | 0 | 1858 | 0 ° 22 ′ S , 160 ° 0 ′ W | UM-86 |
Johnston Atoll 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 2.67 | 130 | 0 | 1858 | 16 ° 45 ′ N , 169 ° 31 ′ W. | UM-67 | |
- | King attack 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 0.01 | 60 | 0 | 1922 | 6 ° 24 ′ N , 162 ° 24 ′ W. | UM-89 |
Midway Islands 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 6.23 | 60 | 40 | 1867 | 28 ° 13 ′ N , 177 ° 22 ′ W | UM-71 | |
Palmyra Atoll 1 | non-organized, integrated area 2 | 3.90 | 8th | 0 | 1898 | 5 ° 52 ' N , 162 ° 5' W. | UM-95 | |
Wake -Atoll 1 | unorganized, uninvolved area | 7.37 | 10 | 0 | 1899 | 19 ° 18 ' N , 166 ° 38' E | UM-79 |
The former British -US American condominium Canton and Enderbury , which consisted of the atolls Canton and Enderbury in the northeast of the Phoenix Islands , became part of this new island state on July 12, 1979, the day of the independence of the state of Kiribati .
The US outlying areas also include smaller uninhabited islands and atolls, the United States Minor Outlying Islands . The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , located in the southern part of Guantánamo Bay , is not a US external area, but a US military base on leased land on the island of Cuba .
politics
Residents of the U.S. outer areas do not have the right to vote at the federal level, but some elect delegates in the presidential primaries .
See also
- Colonies and Protectorates of the United States
- Sub-country : Spatially separated part of a national territory with reduced political rights.