The CIA World Factbook Edition 2023 Government

Dependent areas In 36 editions of 36.

Dependent areas was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 2023 edition carries it in 7 entries, in its Government section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2023 edition
7
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Dependent areas” (1990 to 2025).

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Entries with Dependent areas in each edition

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World

1 entry

World

Australia dependencies:
  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands,
  • Christmas Island,
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
  • Coral Sea Islands,
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
  • Norfolk Island (6)
France dependencies:
  • Clipperton Island,
  • French Polynesia,
  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands,
  • New Caledonia,
  • Saint Barthelemy,
  • Saint Martin,
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon,
  • Wallis and Futuna (8)
New Zealand dependency:
Tokelau (1)
Norway dependencies:
  • Bouvet Island,
  • Jan Mayen,
  • Svalbard (3)
United Kingdom dependencies:
  • Anguilla;
  • Bermuda;
  • British Indian Ocean Territory;
  • British Virgin Islands;
  • Cayman Islands;
  • Falkland Islands;
  • Gibraltar;
  • Montserrat;
  • Pitcairn Islands;
  • Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha;
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands;
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (12)
United States dependencies:
  • 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 (14)

Europe

3 entries

France

  • Clipperton Island,
  • French Polynesia,
  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands,
  • New Caledonia,
  • Saint Barthelemy,
  • Saint Martin,
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon,
  • Wallis and Futuna (8)

note: the US Government does not recognize claims to Antarctica; New Caledonia has been considered a "sui generis" collectivity of France since 1998, a unique status falling between that of an independent country and a French overseas department

Norway

  • Bouvet Island,
  • Jan Mayen,
  • Svalbard (3)

United Kingdom

  • Anguilla;
  • Bermuda;
  • British Indian Ocean Territory;
  • British Virgin Islands;
  • Cayman Islands;
  • Falkland Islands;
  • Gibraltar;
  • Montserrat;
  • Pitcairn Islands;
  • Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha;
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands;
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (12)

North America

1 entry

United States

  • 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 (14)

note: from 18 July 1947 until 1 October 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; it entered into a political relationship with all four political entities: the Northern Mariana Islands is a commonwealth in political union 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); the Federated States of Micronesia signed a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 3 November 1986); Palau concluded a Compact of Free Association with the US (effective 1 October 1994)

Oceania

2 entries

Australia

  • Ashmore and Cartier Islands,
  • Christmas Island,
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
  • Coral Sea Islands,
  • Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
  • Norfolk Island (6)

New Zealand

Tokelau (1)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2023, “Dependent areas”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/dependent-areas/2023.

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