Dependent areas:
American Samoa Baker Island Guam Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef		Midway Islands Navassa Island Northern Mariana Islands Palmyra Atoll Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Wake Island

NOTE: from 18 July 1947 until 1 October 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, but recently entered into a new political relationship with all four political units:

• the Northern Mariana Islands is a Commonwealth in political union with the US (effective 3 November 1986);
• Palau concluded a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 1 October 1994);
• the Federated States of Micronesia signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 3 November 1986);
• the Republic of the Marshall Islands signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 21 October 1986)