UNITED STATES TERRITORIES |
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| by Ted Peterson |
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| The United States has a number of overseas territories. They picked some up be warfare, buying them from other countries, etc. |
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| One of them, Puerto Rico may some day become a US state, but none of the others will. Most of the ballance are small islands that the US use as bases for their military. |
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| Below is the listing of them. |
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| American Samoa |
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| Baker Islands |
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| Guam |
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| Howland Islands |
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| Jarvis Islands |
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| Johnston Atoll |
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| Kingman Reef |
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| Midway Island |
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| Navassa Island |
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| Northern Mariana Island |
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| Palmyra Atoll |
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| Puerto Rico |
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| United States Virgin Islands |
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| Wake Island |
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| As you can see, most of them are small island the the US army have a small base on. One of them, Wake Island, had one the the biggest battle of WW2, when the small US Army (under 500) held off the complete Japanese Navy and Air Force for 3 months. |
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