The areas separately referred to as ''non-independent'' are territories that are Disputed , are Occupied , have a Government In Exile or have a non-negligible Independence movement.
Currently, there are 61 dependencies on these lists.
The list includes several territories that are not included in the , a list that also includes Western Sahara , since 1990, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the question of Western Sahara was a question of decolonization which remained to be completed by the people of Western Sahara.
Four political entities have a special position recognized by international treaty or agreement ('' Åland '' in Finland , '' Svalbard '' in Norway , as well as the Special Administrative Regions of '' Hong Kong '' and '' Macau '' in the People's Republic Of China ). These are not dependent territories in the strict sense of the meaning, but have in some way a similar position.
All these are, as such or as part of a Commonwealth state in personal union under the same British Monarch.
- Ashmore And Cartier Islands : territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
- Christmas Island : territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
- by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
- Coral Sea Islands : territory administered from Canberra by the Department of the Environment, Sport, and Territories
- Heard Island And McDonald Islands : territory administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage
- Norfolk Island : territory of Australia; Canberra administers Commonwealth responsibilities on Norfolk Island through the Department of Environment, Sport, and Territories
- Australian Antarctic Territory : territory administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage
- the Cook Islands has diplomatic relations in its own name with 18 countries.
- Niue : self-governing in free association with New Zealand since 1974; Niue fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealand retains responsibility for external affairs and defense; however, these responsibilities confer no rights of control and are only exercised at the request of the Government of Niue
- Tokelau : self-administering territory of New Zealand; note - Tokelau and New Zealand have agreed to a draft constitution as Tokelau moves toward free association with New Zealand; a UN sponsored referendum on self-governance, in February 2006, did not produce the two thirds majority vote necessary for changing the current political status
:''See also British Crown
- Akrotiri : overseas territory administered by an administrator who is also the Commander of the British Forces, Cyprus
- Anguilla : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Bermuda : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- British Antarctic Territory : land and islands claimed in Antarctica
- British Indian Ocean Territory : overseas territory administered by a commissioner, resident in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
- British Virgin Islands : overseas territory with internal self-government (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Cayman Islands : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Dhekelia : overseas territory administered by an administrator who is also the Commander of the British Forces, Cyprus
- (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Gibraltar : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Montserrat : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Pitcairn Islands : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- ; Saint Helena also administers Ascension Island .
- ; Grytviken , formerly a whaling station on South Georgia, is a scientific base
- Turks And Caicos Islands : overseas territory (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- ; self-governing overseas administrative division since 1948
- ; self-governing overseas administrative division since 1979
- Bassas Da India : possession administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Réunion (no permanent population)
- Clipperton Island : possession administered by France from French Polynesia by a high commissioner of the Republic (no permanent population)
- Europa Island : possession administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Réunion (no permanent population)
- (designated as an overseas country since 2004 )
- administered from Paris by Administrateur Superieur François Garde (since 24 May 2000 ), assisted by Secretary General Jean-Yves Hermoso ; includes Île Amsterdam , Île Saint-Paul , Îles Crozet , and Îles Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean , along with Adélie Land , the French-claimed sector of Antarctica (no permanent population).
- Glorioso Islands : possession administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Réunion (no permanent population)
- Juan De Nova Island : possession administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Réunion (no permanent population)
- (designated as a departmental collectivity since 2001 )
- (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- (designated as a territorial collectivity since 1985 )
- Tromelin Island : possession administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Réunion (no permanent population)
- (designated as a territory since 1961 )
- ; full autonomy in internal affairs obtained in 1986 upon separation from the Netherlands Antilles; Dutch Government responsible for defense and foreign affairs
- and Bonaire are located off the coast of Venezuela ; Saba , Sint Eustatius , and Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin ) lie 800 km to the north.
The smallest island entities belong to the United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Navassa Island : unincorporated territory of the U.S.; administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, from the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Boqueron, Puerto Rico; in September 1996, the Coast Guard ceased operations and maintenance of Navassa Island Light, a 46-meter-tall lighthouse on the southern side of the island; there has also been a private claim advanced against the island
- Puerto Rico : unincorporated, organized territory of the US with commonwealth status; policy relations between Puerto Rico and the US conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President
- U.S. Virgin Islands : organized, unincorporated territory with policy relations between the Virgin Islands and the U.S. under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Guam : organized, unincorporated territory with policy relations between Guam and the U.S. under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior (a non-self-governing territory as listed by the UN)
- Northern Mariana Islands : commonwealth in political union with the U.S.; federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs
- Baker Island , Howland Island , Jarvis Island , Johnston Atoll , Kingman Reef & Midway Islands : unincorporated territories of the US; administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
- Palmyra Atoll : incorporated Territory of the US; partly privately owned and partly federally owned; administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior; the Office of Insular Affairs of the US Department of the Interior continues to administer nine excluded areas comprising certain tidal and submerged lands within the 12 nm territorial sea or within the lagoon
- , the ownership of the territory is disputed with the Marshall Islands .
, ''' Guadeloupe ''', ''' Martinique ''' and ''' Réunion ''' are Departments (first-order administrative units) of France, and are therefore not dependencies or areas of special sovereignty, similar to how the island state of Hawaii is a first-order political unit of the United States. The Department of Guadeloupe includes the nearby islands of Marie-Galante, La Desirade, and Iles des Saintes, as well as Saint Barthelemy and the northern three-fifths of Saint Martin (the rest of which belongs to Netherlands Antilles). The islands of Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island are administered from Reunion; all these islands are claimed by Madagascar , and Tromelin Island is claimed by Mauritius .
France has not had colonies since the 1960s . All citizens of the listed territorial entities enjoy full French citizenship rights, including the right to vote for national elections. All the inhabited entities, whatever their status, are represented by Deputies and Senator s to the National Parliament .
French Polynesia (overseas country), New Caledonia (collectivity Sui Generis ), and Wallis And Futuna (overseas territorial collectivity) enjoy some substantial legislative autonomy and have a separate currency (the CFP Franc ). Whether they will choose independence in the future is an open question.
''See'' Islands Controlled By France In The Indian And Pacific Oceans
Citizens of U.S. overseas possessions, including Puerto Rico, do not have the right to vote in U.S. federal elections. The U.S. Department Of State uses the term Insular Area s to refer to the areas listed above (with the exception of Guantanamo Bay). Although the U.S. State of Hawaii is an island and is technically overseas from the rest of the U.S., it is fully a state of the Union and shares equal status under the U.S. Constitution with all of the other states.
The U.S. does not claim sovereignty on Guantanamo Bay , but exercises permanent control and pays rent under terms of treaties with Cuba .
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