Territories of the United States

The United States is not just the 50 states. In addition to Washington, D.C. (a federal district where the push for statehood is ongoing), there are 14 territories administered by the United States as insular areas—lands subject to U.S. jurisdiction, but expressly not part of any state. The first of these territories to be claimed were uninhabited islands, such as Howland Island in the southwestern Pacific and Navassa Island in the Caribbean, under the auspices...