The CIA World Factbook Edition 2024 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 2024 edition carries it in 7 entries, in its Government section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2024 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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World
1 entryWorld
- 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 entriesFrance
- 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
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 entryUnited 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 entriesAustralia
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands,
- Christmas Island,
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
- Coral Sea Islands,
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
- Norfolk Island (6)
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2024, “Dependent areas”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/dependent-areas/2024.