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A lot of people think the U.

S.

A.

Is just 50 states, but we got a little bit more than that.

Besides the federal District of Washington, D.

C.

Our capital, we also have five inhabited island territories across the Caribbean and Pacific.

In addition, we also have 10 uninhabited or temporarily inhabited islands and two disputed ones.

But we'll get to that later.

In this episode, we're gonna talk about the inhabited territories of the United States.

What is a territory?

A.

Territory is not a state, but it still falls under the overarching sovereignty of the United States.

All these territories kind of have their own level of self home rule.

But the U.

S government and the military and a lot of their social service is still apply to these places, and they're divided kind of weirdly like There's Commonwealth.

There's organized, unorganized incorporated on incorporated territories.

We'll get to that in a bit.

In the meantime, let's start off American Samoa capital.

Paco Paco.

It is located in the region of Polynesia.

This territory is made up of five main Island's largest ones being Catalina and Manu.

Uh, they have two official languages, obviously English and Samoa in.

And it is an unincorporated, unorganized territory.

Out of all the territories is probably the weirdest one because the people here are not born as citizens, but rather USA Nationals, which basically means they're almost like citizens.

They can pretty much move about to the U.

S.

And anywhere they want for an indefinite period of time.

And if they want citizenship, they can get it after like three months.

It's really not hard for these people to become citizens.

They have a representative del look it in the House of Representatives, but they cannot vote on presidential elections.

Basically, this territory kind of fell under the U.

S.

At the end of the 19th century.

Essentially, Germany took over the west part and the US took over the east part and in 1966 the U.

N.

Actually kind of throughout the option if they wanted to join the independent state of Samoa.

But surprisingly, they actually said no and they prefer to stick with the U.

S.

That's kind of how this territory is stuck with the US instead of joining Samoa, and it's really weird because they sit on the international date line.

So Western Samoa is an entire day ahead of American Samoa, even though they're only like less than 100 miles away.

Fun fact.

The law off Aiga applies to Samoa, which means that nobody who has less than half Samoan blood can own land in this area.

They have a lot of self rule autonomy.

They even have their own legislative community, called the Formal.

They can make their own laws, but large scale policies have to be approved by the U.

S.

A.

There the cousins of the independent state of Samoa, Basically and fun fact Simone's are kind of like a strong, powerful weapon of Americans.

We love using them in like athletics.

According to Forbes, a Samoan male is about 56 times more likely to be drafted in the NFL than non Samoan players.

They're known for just being very big, strong people.

I mean, come on, Dwayne.

The Rock Johnson is half Samoan.

Its strength is just in their blood.

A lot of them joined the military.

These guys are like the Pacific Island or Spartan Polynesians of the U.

S.

A.

And we love him.

Love you.

Samoa, Guam Capital, Hagatna.

This is located in the Pacific region off Micronesia.

These people are micronesians and it is an unincorporated organized territory.

So that means the people here do have citizenship.

It's basically one big island with a few small rocky islets divided into 19 municipal villages.

There are multiple U.

S military bases on the island.

The motto is it's the place where America's Day begins due to the fact that it is in the 10 plus UTC zone.

So it's technically the earliest time zone area of U.

S territory.

They do have a delegate to the House of Representatives and they can vote on committee meetings, but not floor votes.

They can vote for U.

S presidential elections, but they don't really have a seat in the Electoral College, so it doesn't really matter, kind of, but anyway, yeah, they have a strong Micronesian culture and heritage language of Guam and the Mariana Islands is tomorrow.

It's actually really diverse.

There's a lot of Asians here is well, it's Ah, strong military presence island with Micronesian culture and heritage The Northern Mariana Islands, the capital being SaiPan.

It is an unincorporated, organized commonwealth of the US, basically the cousins to Guam again.

It is located in the Pacific region off Micronesia.

These people are micronesians.

It is the most recent territory to join back.

In 1986 1975 they were given the option for independence, but they decided to stick with the U.

S.

And then in the eighties, they decided to be fully integrated.

You know, back when all that whole free association state thing was happening with Palau in Micronesia, Marshall Islands the eighties was a weird time for territories and a lot of yap.

And then this happened.

Basically, there are 14 island's divided into 15 municipalities.

It is a tri lingual territory, with English tomorrow and Carolinian being the three main languages.

And funny thing is, they actually kind of wanted to join Guam like four times as one unified territory.

I mean, they are on the same archipelago.

They're basically the cousins.

They're like the same people.

But Guam was kind of like a You do your own thing.

I'll do my own thing anyway.

Funny thing is, there's actually more Filipinos here than there are Micronesians.

Southern islands are limestone and the northern islands or volcanic, just like all the other territories.

They have a delegate to the House of Representatives, but they cannot vote on the floor of a really cool place.

I kind of want to go there so interesting.

That's part of my country.

Puertorico.

Pretty sure you all have heard of this one.

Capital San Juan.

This is the largest and most populous of all the territories, with over 3.3 million people.

It is an unincorporated, organized Commonwealth territory located in the Caribbean.

These people are known as Bordick, Woz, and along with the Cubans and Dominicans, they make up the trifecta of Latin Caribbeans.

They come in all different shapes and colors.

You got the white Puerto Ricans black Porter Aitken's misty So Puerto Ricans.

I mean, we all know that music video Esposito.

That was basically a clear depiction of how the populist looks like there's a thing.

Puerto Rico is pretty much in every logical sense, its own country.

But it still falls under U.

S.

Territory status.

You ask any Puerto Rican, though the vast majority that will say they identify as being Puerto Rican first and maybe with like a little American touch flavor spice added into the mix.

Puerto Ricans air like the unicorn of the Latin world.

Like when Latinos meet Puerto Ricans.

They're like your Puerto Rican.

Who then can I buy?

You will drank, Say something important Quand the Puerto Rican is like I've been Ditto Oh my God, You thought that a cure to make I mean, let's be for real.

I mean, I know it's kind of like a generalization, but come on, we all kind of know Puerto Ricans a kind of sexy It's like, Come on, you know, they talk a lot about, like, independents and stuff like that.

But it's like, Come on, you guys are like the coolest Latinos ever.

We like giving you citizenship with us one day.

I should just do a whole video on Puerto Rico cause it's just so complex for now.

Sorry, Gotta move on.

In the last U S.

Territory, the U s Virgin Islands capital.

Charlotte Amalie.

Located in the Caribbean.

It is an unincorporated organized territory, So the people here are citizens as well.

It's our story is made up of three main islands ST Thomas, ST John and Sink All Cross.

Basically, we bought these islands from Denmark back in 1917.

This was like the last thing the Danes had in the Caribbean, and we kind of just took it from them.

Sorry, Denmark, but you still see some leftover residue of Danish culture and influence, like some of the people still have, like Danish last names.

And some of the street signs are still in Danish.

They are also non self governing.

And the funny thing is, it's also kind of known for being like a tax haven.

They act as a customs territory with free ports, and the residents are not subject to federal income taxes, and they basically just pay their taxes to the territory at a similar ratio.

About 3/4 of the population are black and the rest are mostly white, with a few Asians and Latinos mixed in.

They have their own Creole, especially on the island of ST Wow.

It's also like a honeymoon destination.

You know, a lot of people go here for their weddings and honeymoons afterwards, and, you know, it's tropical Caribbean.

Beautiful, Romantic.

So if you're gonna go here for your honeymoon, it's definitely not a place.

Where you gonna be a virgin anymore?

Anyhoo, those are all of the inhabited territory.

As we mentioned in all the previous episodes, we already did.

Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands.

Both three countries are in free association with the U.

S.

And the U.

S.

Still has military bases on those countries.

But we have an agreement where it's like they could move to our country freely and like they're, they're they're privileged.

They can, like, become American citizens very easily.

Kind of like American Samoa.

You know, we give them social service is and they give us, you know, areas for our military bases.

It's like we have a very good close connection with them.

And on top of that, we have 10 other uninhabited or temporarily inhabited by military personnel Island territories.

They are Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnson at all, which is weird because it's an incorporated unorganized territory.

I don't even get that.

That's like house incorporated but unorganized.

Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Vasa Island, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island.

In addition, we have two disputed island territories, Bahama Nuevo and Sarah Nia.

And in addition to that, it gets even more complicated because the U.

S.

Has over 560 recognized Native American Indian tribes.

And there are 326 Indian reservations that most of them either live on or have land on.

Not all the tribes have reservations.

Some of the tribes have more than one reservation.

Some of them share a reservation.

Some of them have reservations within other reservations.

It's weird, but yeah, the U.

S has a lot of interesting confusion when it comes to administrative divisions, and it's it's it's fascinating when you kind of dive deeper into it.

That's my country.

We got states a federal district.

We have territories.

We have reservations.

We have beds.

It's Ah, big, huge, crazy puzzle off the United States.

Anyway, this was fun.

Hope you learned something.

If not, at least you could get a geography now.

T shirt A joke, you know, Top cup.

All right.

Hope you have a good one.

Stay cool.