Thanks a lot Lowell,
everything is clear now!
Bye Fabio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] U.S. External Territories list

>
> The territory of the United States consists of:
>
> 1. the 50 states of the Union
> 2. the District of Columbia
> 3. one Incorporated Territory: Palmyra
>
> American law is fully applicable to these three. In addition, the USA
> possesses
> several other places:
>
> 1. Puerto Rico
> 2. Guam
> 3. US Virgin Islands
> 4. American Samoa
> 5. Wake
> 6. Midway
> 7. Baker
> 8. Howland
> 9. Jarvis
> 10. Johnston
> 11. Kingman
> 12. Navassa
> 13. Northern Marianas
>
> Various of these are styled unincorporated territories (both organized and
> unorganized), commonwealths, or possessions. They have a variety of legal
> statuses, some highly individualized. See
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/14346
> for a discussion of some of the complexities.
>
> Finally, there are three places that are styled "freely associated
> states."
> These are former holdings of the German empire that became Japanese
> mandates at
> the end of WWI and US trusteeships at the end of WWII. They were granted
> their
> current status in recent decades. (The Northern Marianas share a similar
> history, but they did not opt for sovereign status.) These three are
> theoretically sovereign and make their own laws, but the USA is
> responsible for
> their defense, provides them with post offices, and gives them much of
> their
> money:
>
> 1. Republic of the Marshall Islands
> 2. Federated States of Micronesia
> 3. Republic of Palau
>
> There are no remaining islands in dispute between the USA and other
> nations--only some disputed wet boundaries between US lands and other
> nations.
>
> None of the US military, naval, or air bases in other countries (including
> Guantanamo in Cuba and those in the "freely associated states") are
> sovereign US
> territory. Such US bases are sovereign territories of the host
> governments, let
> out to US use under various kinds of lease agreements. Typically, the US
> has
> jurisdiction over its people within these bases under the terms of the
> agreements.
>
> A lease agreement for Guantanamo in Cuba dates from 1903, and a 1934
> treaty gave
> the US a lease until we choose to abandon it. Every July, the US
> government
> sends Cuba a check for the annual lease payment. Since the communist
> dictator
> Fidel Castro seized power there in 1959, he has chosen to cash only one of
> the
> checks. He would prefer to have the Americans out, but that's not likely
> to
> happen. The money from the uncashed checks will be available to whatever
> government Cuba has after Castro is gone.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fabio" <fabiov@...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] U.S. External Territories list
>
>
>>
>> Hello,
>> it is a very nice thread this one. I would like to know which are ALL
>> the
>> External Territories of USA, I know only few far islands in Pacific Ocean
>> and few others from the CIA facts book.. But in Morocco I saw personally
>> a
>> large U.S. military airport where it was forbidden to enter, but is
>> it
>> a. U.S. Territory or not?
>> There is anybody who has a complete list of these External USA
>> territories?
>> Thanks
>> Fabio V.
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