Examples for different types of territory include the following: •
Capital territory or federal capital territory, usually a specially designated territory where a
country's seat of
government is located. As such, in the
federal model of government, no one
state or territory takes pre-eminence because the
capital lies within its
borders. A capital territory can be one specific form of
federal district. •
Dependent territory, a territory that is not an independent sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the governing state's integral area. •
Disputed territory, a geographic area claimed by two or more rival governments. For example, the territory of
Kashmir is claimed by the governments of both
India and
Pakistan; for each country involved in the dispute, the whole territory is claimed as a part of the existing state. Another example is the
Republic of China (commonly labeled "Taiwan"), whose
sovereignty status is disputed by and territory claimed by the
People's Republic of China. •
Federal territory, an area within the direct and usually exclusive jurisdiction of the central or national government within a federation. •
Maritime territory •
Occupied territory, a region that is under the military control of an outside power that has not gained universal recognition from the
international community. Current examples are
Crimea, occupied by the
Russian Federation;
East Jerusalem, the
Gaza Strip, the
Golan Heights, and the
West Bank, occupied by the
State of Israel;
Western Sahara, partially occupied by the
Kingdom of Morocco. Other examples of occupied territory include the country of
Kuwait after it was briefly
invaded by Iraq in 1990, Iraq after the American invasion of 2003, Germany after
World War II, and
Kosovo after 1999. •
Overseas territory •
Unorganized territory, a region of land without a "normally" constituted system of government. This does not mean that the territory has no government at all or that it is an
unclaimed territory. In practice, such territories are always sparsely populated.
Overseas territory Overseas territory is a broad designation for a territorial entity that is separated from the country that governs it by an
ocean. An overseas territory may be either a constituent part of the governing state or a
dependent territory. Examples include: • The
Faroe Islands and
Greenland are overseas autonomous territories of the
Kingdom of Denmark that are internally self-governing. •
Overseas France includes the five
overseas collectivities of
France, which are broadly autonomous territories, as well as
overseas regions and overseas departments, which are essentially the same as the
regions and
departments in
Metropolitan France. Nonetheless, all are integral parts of the
French Fifth Republic. • Three
special municipalities of the
Netherlands –
Bonaire,
Sint Eustatius and
Saba – are located in the
Caribbean Netherlands. Apart from the Netherlands, the
Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of three more
constituent countries located in the
Dutch Caribbean;
Aruba,
Curaçao, and
Sint Maarten. All countries participate on a basis of equality as partners in the Kingdom. • The
Azores and
Madeira are the
Autonomous Regions of Portugal. • The fourteen
British Overseas Territories are dependent territories of the
British Crown with varying degrees of self-governance, not parts of the
United Kingdom itself nor of any of its four
constituent countries. • Non-contiguous
U.S. territories, territories cut off from the contiguous United States by foreign land borders and are accessible by sea. == See also ==