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Grenada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n eɪ d ə / ⓘ grə-NAY-də; Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad, ) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.The southernmost of the Windward Islands, Grenada is directly south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and about 100 miles (160 km) north of Trinidad and the South American mainland.
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]
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 .
Province of Quebec (1763–1791) Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada (1791–1841) United Province of Canada (1841–1867) Rupert's Land (1670–1870) (a territory of the Hudson's Bay Company) North-Western Territory (1859–1870) Colony of British Columbia (1858–1871) (included the Colony of Vancouver Island and former British ...
United States Virgin Islands: 3 districts: 20 subdistricts: 1 unincorporated unorganized self-governing territory: American Samoa: 3 districts: 15 counties 76 villages 2 unorganized atolls United States Minor Outlying Islands: Baker Island Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Islands Palmyra Atoll [ch] Wake Island ...
United States dollar: Unincorporated organized territory and Commonwealth of the United States: Turks and Caicos Islands TCA English: Turks and Caicos Islands: Cockburn Town: 45,114 430 km 2 (166 sq mi) United States dollar United Kingdom: British Overseas Territory: United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands of the United States VIR
Grenada: Island Caribs: 1649 ... 1822 Alta California Territory 1846 United States military occupation ... 1674 Province of New York 1776 New York North Carolina:
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).