U.S. territory
Not a state
A U.S. territory is an area under American sovereignty that is not one of the fifty states.
Major territories include Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Residents are generally U.S. citizens or nationals but lack full voting representation in Congress: Puerto Rico is the most populous U.S. territory.
- citizenship rightsProtections granted to nationals
- multilingual communitiesGroups using multiple languages
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- island lifeExistence on surrounded land
tropical paradise · Pacific Ocean · American Samoa · self-governance · local government · annexation · federal oversight · Arawak · Spanish-American War · ocean · indigenous traditions · archipelago · constitutional protections · territorial expansion · tropical climate · Virgin Islands · volcanic terrain · military bases
U.S. territorysovereign nation
Self-ruled territorial polity
sovereign state · foreign country · nation-state · sovereign power · republic
U.S. territoryforeign country
Nation beyond one's own
U.S. state · international waters · hostile territory · enemy territory · occupied territory