word | | Dependency status |
| southern | Navassa Island | ... 1996, the Coast Guard ceased operations and maintenance of Navassa Island Light, a 46-meter-tall lighthouse on the southern side of the island; there has also been a private claim advanced ... |
| sovereignty | Svalbard | territory of Norway; 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 |
| special | Akrotiri | a special form of UK overseas territory; administered by an administrator who is also the Commander, British Forces Cyprus |
| special | Dhekelia | a special form of UK overseas territory; administered by an administrator who is also the Commander, British Forces Cyprus |
| special | Hong Kong | special administrative region of China |
| special | Macau | special administrative region of the People's Republic of China |
| Spitsbergen | Svalbard | territory of Norway; 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 |
| station | Jan Mayen | territory of Norway; since August 1994, administered from Oslo through the county governor (fylkesmann) of Nordland; however, authority has been delegated to a station commander of the Norwegian Defense Communication Service |
| status | Puerto Rico | unincorporated, organized territory of the US with commonwealth status; policy relations between Puerto Rico and the US conducted under the jurisdiction of the Office of the President |
| status | Tokelau | ... constitution as Tokelau moves toward free association with New Zealand; a UN-sponsored referendum on self governance in October 2007 did not produce the two-thirds majority vote necessary for changing the |
| submerged | United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | ... 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 |
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