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The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [367] [375] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
United States dollar: Unincorporated organized territory and Commonwealth of the United States: Turks and Caicos Islands TCA English: Turks and Caicos Islands: Cockburn Town: 45,114 430 km 2 (166 sq mi) United States dollar United Kingdom: British Overseas Territory: United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands of the United States VIR
The Panama Canal Zone was created on November 18, 1903 from the territory of Panama; it was established with the signing of the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which allowed for the construction of the Panama Canal within the territory by the United States. The zone existed until October 1, 1979, when it was incorporated back into Panama.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
Panama, [a] officially the Republic of Panama, [b] is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
On March 3, 1849, the last day of the 30th Congress, a bill was passed to create the U.S. Department of the Interior to take charge of the internal affairs of United States territory. The Interior Department has a wide range of responsibilities (which include the regulation of territorial governments, the basic responsibilities for public lands ...
autonomous province Åland (1922) [E] [6] [7] [8] United Kingdom: UK constituent country with devolution: Northern Ireland (1999) [F] [9] Italy: autonome Provinz (German) provincia autonoma (Italian) autonomous province South Tyrol (1946, 1972) [G] [10] Israel / Palestine "سلطة الحكم الذاتي الفلسطينية المؤقتة ...