United States Minor Outlying Islands

Navassa Baker Island Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll King attack Midway Islands Palmyra Atoll Wake atoll Pacific Ocean

United States Minor Outlying Islands

United States Minor Outlying Islands ( German  " Smaller remote islands of the United States " ) is a purely statistical collective name of the United States Census Bureau for nine uninhabited island territories of the USA , eight of them non-incorporated territories and one incorporated (Palmyra Atoll). Eight are in the Pacific ( American Oceania ) and one in the Caribbean (Navassa). The collective name has the entry UM in ISO 3166-1 . There is no common administration.

From 1997 to 2008 these islands had their own top-level domain , .um , which was not used in practice.

The collective name includes the following territories, the ownership of which is established by the Guano Islands Act :

Caribbean

1. Navassa

Pacific

1. Baker Island
2. Howland Island
3. Jarvis Island
4. Johnston Atoll
5. King attack
6. Midway Islands
7. Palmyra - great
8. Wake great

See also

• Flags of the United States Minor Outlying Islands
• Table with islands / atolls of the United States Minor Outlying Islands including area and coordinates under outer areas of the United States
• National Register of Historic Places in the United States Minor Outlying Islands

Web links

Commons : United States Minor Outlying Islands  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• US Unincorporated Possessions. In: World Statesmen.org (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ IANA Report on the Revocation of the .UM Top-Level Domain. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), accessed June 11, 2017 .