Territory - geography.
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Territory - geography. Territory, name given in the United States to a partially self-governing section of the national domain that has not been granted statehood. The major U.S. territories are the District of Columbia on the mainland; American Samoa and Guam in the Pacific; and the Virgin Islands of the United States in the West Indies. Puerto Rico, now a commonwealth, was a U.S. territory until 1952. Alas...
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