 Cook IslandsNorwayhas one dependent territory and two Antarctic claims. Norway also possesses the inhabited islands of Svalbard where Norwegian sovereignty is limited.
Dependent territory
| Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  Bouvet IslandThe United Kingdom has three "Crown Dependencies", thirteen "Overseas Territories", and one Antarctic claim.
| Crown Dependency | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  Bailiwick of Guernsey|name=GuernseyThe United States has 13 "unincorporated" dependent territories under its administration and two claimed territories outside its control. The uninhabited Palmyra Atoll is administered similarly to some of these territories, and is usually included on lists of U.S. overseas territories, but it is excluded from this list because it is classified in U.S. law as an incorporated territory. The U.S. Constitution does not apply in full to the insular areas.
| Unincorporated organized territory | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  GuamLists of similar entitiesThe following entities are, according to the law of their state, integral parts of the state but exhibit many characteristics of dependent territories. This list is generally limited to entities that are either subject to an international treaty on their status, uninhabited, or have a unique level of autonomy and are largely self-governing in matters other than international affairs. It generally does not include entities with no unique autonomy, such as the five overseas departments and regions of France; the BES islands of the Netherlands; Jan Mayen of Norway; and Palmyra Atoll of the United States.
Entities with only limited unique autonomy—such as Barbuda of Antigua and Barbuda; Sabah and Sarawak of Malaysia; the two autonomous regions of Portugal; Nevis of Saint Kitts and Nevis; the Canary Islands and the two autonomous cities of Spain; Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom; and Kurdistan of Iraq—and entities with non-recognized unique autonomy—such as Wa of Myanmar; Gaza of Palestine; Puntland of Somalia; Zapatista of Mexico; and The autonomous administration north and east Syria of Syria—are also not included. All claims in Antarctica are listed in italics.Australiahas six external territories in its administration and one Antarctic claim.
Debate remains as to whether the external territories are integral parts of Australia, due to their not being part of Australia in 1901, when its constituent states federated. Norfolk Island was self-governing from 1979 to 2016. The external territories are often grouped separately from Australia proper for statistical purposes.
| External territory | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  Christmas IslandChinaThe People's Republic of China has two special administrative regions that are governed according to the constitution and respective basic laws. The SARs greatly differ from Mainland China in administrative, economic, legislative, and judicial terms including by currency, left-hand versus right-hand traffic, official languages, and immigration control. Although the PRC does claim sovereignty over Taiwan, it is not listed here as the PRC government does not have de facto control of the territory.
| Special administrative region | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  Hong KongDenmarkThe Kingdom of Denmark contains two autonomous territories with their own governments and legislatures, and input into foreign affairs.
| Autonomous territory | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  Faroe IslandsFinlandhas one autonomous region that is also subject to international treaties.
| Autonomous region | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  ÅlandFrancehas overseas six autonomous collectivities and two uninhabited territories. This does not include its "standard" overseas regions of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Réunion. Although also located overseas, they have the same status as the regions of metropolitan France. Nonetheless, all of France's overseas territory is considered an integral part of the French Republic.
| Overseas collectivity | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  French PolynesiaNetherlandsThe Kingdom of the Netherlands comprises three autonomous "constituent countries" in the Caribbean and one constituent country, the Netherlands, with most of its area in Europe but also encompassing three overseas Caribbean municipalities—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba. All citizens of the Dutch Kingdom share the same nationality and are thus citizens of the European Union, but only the European portion of the Kingdom is a part of the territory of the Union, the Customs Union, and the Eurozone while other areas have overseas countries and territory status.
| Constituent country | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  ArubaNorwayhas, in the Arctic, one inhabited archipelago with restrictions placed on Norwegian sovereignty — Svalbard. Unlike the country's dependent territory and Antarctic claims, Svalbard is a part of the Kingdom of Norway. Norway also has one uninhabited remote archipelago located in the Arctic, Jan Mayen, but it is excluded in this list as the island is directly administered by the Nordland County Municipality and none of the considerations established for Svalbard Treaty are attributed to it.
| Territory | Administration | ISO 3166 country code |  SvalbardDescriptionThree Crown Dependencies are in a form of association with the United Kingdom. They are independently administrated jurisdictions, although the British Government is solely responsible for defence and international representation and has ultimate responsibility for ensuring good government. They do not have diplomatic recognition as independent states, but neither are they integrated into the UK. The UK Parliament retains the ability to legislate for the crown dependencies even without the agreement of their legislatures. No crown dependency has representation in the UK Parliament.
Although they are British Overseas Territories, Bermuda and Gibraltar have similar relationships to the UK as do the Crown Dependencies. While the United Kingdom is officially responsible for their defence and international representation, these jurisdictions maintain their own militaries and have been granted limited diplomatic powers, in addition to having internal self-government.
New Zealand and its dependencies share the same governor-general and constitute one monarchic realm. The Cook Islands and Niue are officially termed associated states.
Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are non-independent states freely associated with the United States. The mutually negotiated Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States was approved in 1976. The covenant was fully implemented on November 3, 1986, under Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred U.S. citizenship on legally qualified CNMI residents. Under the Constitution of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is described as a Commonwealth and Puerto Ricans have a degree of administrative autonomy similar to that of a citizen of a U.S. state. Puerto Ricans "were collectively made U.S. citizens" in 1917, as a result of the Jones–Shafroth Act. The commonly used name in Spanish of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, literally "Associated Free State of Puerto Rico", which sounds similar to "free association" particularly when loosely used in Spanish, is sometimes erroneously interpreted to mean that Puerto Rico's relationship with the United States is based on a Compact of Free Association and at other times is erroneously held to mean that Puerto Rico's relationship with the U.S. is based on an Interstate compact. This is a constant source of ambiguity and confusion when trying to define, understand, and explain Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States. For various reasons Puerto Rico's political status differs from that of the Pacific Islands that entered into Compacts of Free Association with the United States. As sovereign states, these islands have the full right to conduct their foreign relations, while the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has territorial status subject to U.S. congressional authority under the Constitution's Territory Clause, "to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory… belonging to the United States." Puerto Rico does not have the right to unilaterally declare independence, and at the last referendum, the narrow majority voted for "none of the above", which was a formally undefined alternative used by commonwealth supporters to express their desire for an "enhanced commonwealth" option.
This kind of relationship can also be found in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is termed a federacy. The European continental part is organised like a unitary state. However, the status of its "constituent countries" in the Caribbean can be considered akin to dependencies or "associated non-independent states."
The Kingdom of Denmark also operates similarly, akin to another federacy. The Faroe Islands and Greenland are two self-governing territories or regions within the Kingdom. The relationship between Denmark proper and these two territories is semi-officially termed the Rigsfællesskabet.
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