United States Minor Outlying Islands

The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a statistical grouping of nine U.S.-administered island areas, mostly uninhabited, in the Pacific and Caribbean.

Baker Island: An uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific administered by the United States. It is one of the Pacific islands included in the grouping.
Guano Islands Act: An 1856 U.S. law allowing citizens to claim islands containing guano deposits for the United States. It provided a legal basis for claiming several remote islands now in the grouping.
Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument: A U.S. marine protected area encompassing waters around several remote central Pacific islands. Its protections cover waters around multiple islands in the grouping.
United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO 3166-1): The ISO 3166-1 country-code entry that represents the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands as a single statistical entity. Its code aggregates places that do not form one political territory.
Howland Island: An uninhabited coral island in the central Pacific administered by the United States. It is a distinct U.S.-administered island within the grouping.
American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project: A mid-1930s U.S. program that established settlements on several equatorial Pacific islands. Its settlements asserted U.S. claims to islands later grouped statistically.
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument: A vast protected marine area in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It offers a nearby model for large-scale U.S. protection of remote Pacific ecosystems.
United States territories: Areas under U.S. sovereignty that are not states and have varied political and legal statuses. The islands are often described as territories, but their legal arrangements differ by island.
Jarvis Island: An uninhabited coral island in the South Pacific administered by the United States. Its isolated location illustrates the grouping’s widely dispersed Pacific territories.
United States trust territories: Former Pacific territories administered by the United States under a United Nations trusteeship after World War II. Unlike these islands, trust territories later became independent states or freely associated countries.

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