What are the The US' Pacific possessions?

Answer 1

The US has many possessions in the Pacific, one well known one is Hawaii, a US state added in 1959, but there are other Pacific territories.

Unincorporated Organized Territories

Unincorporated territories are territories where the US Constitution doesn’t automatically apply.

Organized territories are territories that are self-governing to a degree.

They are…

1. Guam

2. Northern Mariana Islands

Unincorporated Unorganized Territories

Unincorporated territories are territories where the US Constitution doesn’t automatically apply.

Unorganized territories are territories that are not self-governing.

They are…

1. Howland Island

2. Wake Island

3. Jarvis Island

4. Johnston Atoll

5. Kingman Reef

6. Midway Reef

7. American Samoa (It has an organized government, but Congress hasn’t updated American Samoa yet)

Incorporated Unorganized Territories

Incorporated territories are territories where the US Constitution automatically applies.

Unorganized territories are territories that are not self-governing.

1. Palmyra Atoll

Freely Associated Countries

These are independent countries, and are recognized as such, but there in a deal with the US, where the US defends, and economically supports these countries, in exchange for being allowed to build military bases. People from the US can live, and work in these countries, and people from these countries can live, and work in the US.

1. Palau

2. Marshall Islands

3. Federated States of Micronesia