Dependent States

Last modified: 1997-10-10 by herman de wael
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As of 1997, 9 independent nations still maintained dependencies of some sort :

Australia

• Christmas Island
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• Norfolk Island

Denmark

• Faroe Islands
• Greenland

France

• French Guiana
• French Polynesia
• Guadeloupe
• Martinique
• Mayotte
• New Caledonia
• Réunion
• Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
• Wallis et Futuna

the Netherlands

• Aruba
• Netherlands Antilles

New Zealand

• Cook Islands
• Niue
• Tokelau

Norway

• Jan Mayen
• Svalbard

Portugal

• Macau (to be ceded to China in 1999)

United Kingdom

• Anguilla
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Falkland Islands
• Gibraltar
• Guernsey
• Isle of Man
• Jersey
• Montserrat
• Pitcairn Island
• Saint Helena and Dependencies
• Turks and Caicos Islands

United States

• American Samoa
• Guam
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands (US)

In addition, some territories exist without permanent civilian population :

• Bouvet Island (Norway)
• British Indian Ocean Territory
• French Southern Territories
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)
• US Minor Outlying Islands

And finally, the Antarctic Treaty stipulates that all territories south of latitude 60° are effectively internationalized