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Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States. The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities .
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
A blank map of the United States including Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Uses the Albers projection. All paths of the states/territories in the file have been assigned an ID consisting of their standard two-letter abbreviations in order to enable easy editing using a text ...
The exception is the "incorporated and unorganized" (see below) United States Territory of Palmyra Island, the legal remnant of the former United States Territory of Hawaii since 1959, [7] in which the local government and civil administration were assigned by the Secretary of the Interior to the Fish and Wildlife Service in 2001. [8]
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
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English: A blank map of the United States including the five inhabited territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands) Map is similar to File:Blank USA, w territories.svg but with several improvements, including: More detailed outlines for states and territories