Territories[]
Unorganized incorporated territories (inhabited)[]
Name | Flag | USPS | Admission (as territory) |
Population (1997) |
Capital | Largest City | Preceding Entity |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
American Polynesia | AP | September 8, 1920 | 250,000 | Papeete | Fa'a'ā | French Polynesia | |
American Samoa | AS | April 17, 1900 | 50,000 | Pago Pago | Tafuna | Eastern Samoas | |
Greenland | GR | September 17, 1946 | 210,000 | Narsaq | Nuuk | Danish Greenland | |
Line Islands | LI | September 23, 1979 | 9,000 | Kirimati | Kirimati | N/American Guyana |
Unorganized unincorporated territories[]
Name | USPS | Population (1997) |
Capital | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
Midway Island | MID | 400 | N/A | Home to the US Navy's Midway Naval Air Station (MNAS). |
United States Minor Pacific Islands |
N/A | N/A | N/A | Comprised of multiple uninhabited South Pacific islands and atolls. |
Navassa Island | N/A | N/A | N/A | Also claimed by Haiti. |