Random musings and observations from an individual with too much time on his hands

Friday, July 22, 2005

Things they don't tell you in Geography

The outlying territories of the United States include:
  1. Puerto Rico
  2. The Virgin Islands of the United States (purchased from Denmark in 1917)
  3. Guam (ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War)
  4. The Northern Mariana Islands (a commonwealth associated with the United States)
  5. American Samoa
  6. Wake Island, and several other islands.
The United States also has compacts of free association with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Oh, yeah, and Iraq.

I feel like an expansionist empire. Oh, hello Britain.
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