| Sovereign state | Dependencies (native name) with information on status
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| Australia
| Ashmore and Cartier Islands: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
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| Christmas Island: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
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| Coral Sea Islands: territory administered by the Department of the Environment, Sport, and Territories
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| Cocos (Keeling) Islands: territory administered by the Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services
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| Heard Island and McDonald Islands: territory administered by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage
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| Norfolk Island: territory; Commonwealth responsibilities on Norfolk Island are administered through the Department of Environment, Sport, and Territories
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| Denmark
| Faroe Islands (Føroyar): self-governing overseas administrative division
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| Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat - Grønland): self-governing overseas administrative division
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| France
| Clipperton Island (Île Clipperton): possession from French Polynesia by a high commissioner of the Republic
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| French Guiana (Guyane): overseas department and region
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| French Polynesia (Polynésie Française): overseas territory
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| French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises): overseas territory administered from Paris by an Administrateur Superieur
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| Guadeloupe: overseas department and region
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| Martinique: overseas department and region
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| Mayotte: territorial collectivity
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| New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie): overseas country
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| Reunion: overseas department and region
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| Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon): territorial collectivity
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| Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean (Îles éparses de l'océan indien, including Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island and Tromelin Island): possessions administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Reunion
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| Wallis and Futuna (Wallis et Futuna): overseas territory
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| The Netherlands
| Aruba: part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 1954; Dutch Government responsible for defense and foreign affairs
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| Netherlands Antilles (Nederlandse Antillen): part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; full autonomy in internal affairs granted in 1954; Dutch Government responsible for defense and foreign affairs
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| New Zealand
| Cook Islands: self-governing in free association with New Zealand; Cook Islands is fully responsible for internal affairs; New Zealand retains responsibility for external affairs and defense, in consultation with the Cook Islands
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| 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
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| Tokelau: self-administering territory; note - Tokelauans are drafting a constitution and developing institutions and patterns of self-government as Tokelau moves toward free association with New Zealand
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| Norway
| Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya): territory administered by the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice and Police from Oslo
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| Jan Mayen: territory administered through the county governor (fylkesmann) of Nordland; however, authority has been delegated to a station commander of the Norwegian Defense Communication Service
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| Svalbard: territory; administered by the Polar Department of the Ministry of Justice, through a governor (sysselmann) residing in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen; by treaty (9 February 1920) sovereignty was awarded to Norway
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| United Kingdom
| Akrotiri and Dhekelia: sovereign bases on the island of Cyprus; administered by the Ministry of Defense
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| Anguilla: overseas territory
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| Bermuda: overseas territory
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| British Indian Ocean Territory: overseas territory administered by a commissioner, resident in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
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| British Virgin Islands: overseas territory
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| Cayman Islands: overseas territory
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| Falkland Islands: overseas territory, also claimed by Argentina
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| Guernsey: crown dependency
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| Gibraltar: overseas territory
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| Jersey: crown dependency
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| Man: crown dependency
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| Montserrat: overseas territory
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| Pitcairn Islands: overseas territory of the UK
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| Saint Helena (with Ascension and Tristan da Cunha): overseas territory
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| 'South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: overseas territory, also claimed by Argentina, administered from the Falkland Islands by a commissioner, who is concurrently governor of the Falkland Islands, representing Queen Elizabeth II; Grytviken, formerly a whaling station on South Georgia, is a scientific base
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| Turks and Caicos Islands: overseas territory
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| United States
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| American Samoa: unincorporated and unorganized territory administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior
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| Baker Island: unincorporated territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
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| Guam: organized, unincorporated territory US with policy relations between Guam and the US under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior
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| Howland Island: unincorporated territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
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| Jarvis Island: unincorporated territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
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| Johnston Atoll: unincorporated territory administered from Honolulu, HI, by Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, and the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
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| Kingman Reef: unincorporated territory administered of the US by the US Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior
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| Midway Islands: unincorporated territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system
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| Navassa Island: unincorporated territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior
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| Northern Mariana Islands: commonwealth in political union with the US; federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs
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| Palmyra Atoll: incorporated territory, privately owned, but administered 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
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| Puerto Rico: commonwealth associated with the US
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| U.S. Virgin Islands: organized, unincorporated territory with policy relations between the Virgin Islands and the US under the jurisdiction of the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior
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| Wake Island: unincorporated territory administered by the Department of the Interior; activities on the island are managed by the US Air Force
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| No sovereignty
| Antarctica: territory under no sovereign country under 60º latitude.
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| Spratly Islands: group of reefs and islets in the South China Sea and claimed by the People's Republic of China , the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Vietnam and partially claimed by Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
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| Paracel Islands: group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea claimed by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Vietnam.
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Citizens of U.S. oversea 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 areas to refer to the areas listed below (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.
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