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video now a lot of people think the USA
is just 50 states but we got a little
bit more than that besides the Federal
District of Washington DC our capital we
also have five inhabited island
territories across the Caribbean and
Pacific in addition we also have ten
uninhabited or temporarily inhabited
Islands and two disputed ones but we'll
get to that later in this episode we're
gonna talk about the inhabited
territories of the United States what is
a territory a territory is not a state
but it still falls under the overarching
sovereignty of the United States all
these territories kind of have their own
level of self home rule but the US
government and the military and a lot of
their social services still apply to
these places and they're divided kind of
weirdly like there's Commonwealth's
there's organized unorganized
incorporated unincorporated territories
we'll get to that in a bit in the
meantime let's start off American Samoa
capital Pago Pago it is located in the
region of Polynesia this territory is
made up of five main islands the largest
ones being tatu ena and Manoa they have
two official languages obviously English
and Samoan and it is
unincorporated unorganized territory out
of all the territories is probably the
weirdest one because the people here are
not born as citizens but rather USA
Nationals which basically means they're
almost like citizens they can pretty
much move about to the US and anywhere
they want for an indefinite period of
time and if they want citizenship they
can get it after like three months it's
really not hard for these people to
become citizens they have a
representative delegate in the House of
Representatives but they cannot vote on
presidential elections basically this
territory kind of fell under the US at
the end of the 19th century essentially
Jeremy took over the West par and the
u.s. took over the East part and in 1966
the UN actually kind of threw out the
option if they wanted to join the
independent state of Samoa but
surprisingly they actually said no and
they prefer to stick with the US so
that's kind of how this territory stuck
with the US instead of joining some more
and it's really weird because they sit
on the International Dateline so Western
Samoa is an entire day ahead of American
Samoa even though they're only like less
than a hundred miles away fun fact the
law of aikka applies to Samoa which
means that nobody who has less than half
Samoan blood can own land in this area
they have a lot of self-rule autonomy
they even have their own legislative
community called the faunal they can
make their own laws but large-scale
policies have to be approved by the USA
they are the cousins of the independent
state of Samoa basically and fun fact
Samoans are kind of like a strong
powerful weapon of Americans we love
using them in like athletics
according to Forbes a Samoan male is
about 56 times more likely to be drafted
in the NFL than non Samoan players
they're known for just being very big
strong people I mean come on Dwayne the
rock Johnson is half Samoan it's
strength is just in their blood a lot of
them join the military these guys are
like the Pacific Islander Spartan
Polynesians of the USA and we love them
love you Samoa Guam capital ha got ya
this is located in the Pacific region of
Micronesia
these people are Micronesians and it is
an unincorporated organized territory so
that means the people here do have
citizenship it's basically one big
island with a few small Rock islets
divided into 19 municipal villages there
are multiple US military bases on the
island the motto is it's the place where
America's day begins due to the fact
that it is in the 10 plus UTC zone so
it's technically the earliest
zone area of US territory they do have a
delegate to the House of Representatives
and they can vote on committee meetings
but not floor votes they can vote for US
presidential elections but they don't
really have a seat in the electoral
college so it doesn't really matter kind
of but anyway yeah they have a strong
Micronesian culture and heritage a
language of Guam and the Mariana Islands
is Chamorro
it's actually really diverse there's a
lot of Asians here as well it's a strong
military presence island with
Micronesian culture and heritage the
Northern Mariana Islands a capital being
Saipan it is an unincorporated organized
Commonwealth of the US basically the
cousins to Guam again it is located in
the Pacific region of Micronesia these
people are Micronesians it is the most
recent territory to join back in 1986
1975 they were given the option for
independence but they decided to stick
with the US and then in the 80s they
decided to be fully integrated you know
back when all that whole free
association State thing was happening
with Palau and Micronesia Marshall
Islands the 80s was a weird time for
territories and a lot of yeah and then
this happened basically there are 14
islands divided into 15 municipalities
it is a trilingual territory with
English
Chamorro and Carolinian being the three
main languages and the funny thing is
they actually kind of wanted to join
Guam like four times as one unified
territory I mean they are on the same
archipelago they're basically the
cousins they're like the same people but
Guam was kind of like hey you do your
own thing I'll do my own thing
anyway a funny thing is there's actually
more Filipinos here then there are
Micronesians the southern islands are
limestone and the northern islands are
volcanic just like all the other
territories they have a delegate to the
House of Representatives but they cannot
vote on the floor a really cool place I
kinda want to go there so interesting
that's part of my country we're told
Rico pretty sure you all have heard of
this one capital San Juan this is the
largest and most populous of all the
territories with over 3.3 million people
it is an unincorporated organized
Commonwealth Territory located in the
Caribbean these people are known as
Bodie quas and along with the Cubans and
Dominicans they make up the trifecta of
Latin Caribbeans they come in all
different shades and colors you got the
white Puerto Ricans black Puerto Ricans
mestizo Puerto Ricans I mean we all know
that music video this bus seat though
that was basically a clear depiction of
how the populace looks like now here's
the thing Puerto Rico is
pretty much in every logical sense its
own country but it still falls under
u.s. territory status you ask any puerto
rican though the vast majority them will
say they identify as being Puerto Rican
first and maybe with like a little
American touch flavor spice added into
the mix Porto Ricans are like the
unicorn of the Latin world like when
Latinos meet Puerto Ricans they're like
you're Puerto Rican who then can I buy
you a drink
say something in Puerto Rico ah and the
Puerto Rican is like I bendito oh my god
you so a da de cura fair too mejor amigo
possible I mean let's be for real I mean
I know it's kind of like a
generalization but come on we all kind
of know Porto Ricans are kind of sexy
it's like come on come on and I know
they talk a lot about like independence
and stuff like that but it's like come
on you guys are like the coolest Latinos
ever we like giving you citizenship
stick with us one day I should just do a
whole video on Puerto Rico cuz it's just
so complex but for now sorry gotta move
on in the last US territory the US
Virgin Islands Capitol Charlotte Amalie
located in the Caribbean it is an
unincorporated organized territories all
the people here are citizens as well the
territory is made up of three main
islands st. Thomas st. John and st.
Croix basically we bought these islands
from Denmark back in 1917 this was like
the last thing the Danes had in the
Caribbean and we kind of just took it
from them sorry Denmark but you still
see some leftover residue of Danish
culture and influence like some of the
people still have like Danish last names
and some of the street signs are still
in Danish they are also non
self-governing and the funny thing is
it's also kind of known for being like a
tax haven they act as a customs
territory with free ports and the
residents are not subject to federal
income taxes and they basically just pay
their taxes to the territory at a
similar ratio about three-quarters of
the population are black and the rest
are mostly whites with a few Asians and
Latinos mixed in they have their own
Creole especially on the island of st.
Wow
and it's also like a honeymoon
destination you know a lot of people go
here for their weddings and honeymoons
afterwards and you know it's tropical
Caribbean beautiful romantic so if
you're gonna go here for your honeymoon
it's definitely not a place where you're
gonna be a virgin anymore yeah
anywho those are all of the inhabited
territories as we mentioned in all the
previous episodes we already did Palau
Micronesia Marshall Islands those three
countries are in free association with
the US and the u.s. still has military
bases on those countries but we have an
agreement where it's like they can move
to our country freely and like they're
there they're privileged they can like
become American citizens very easily
kind of like American Samoa you know we
give them social services and they give
us you know areas for our military bases
it's like we have a very good close
connection with them and on top of that
we have ten other uninhabited or
temporarily inhabited by military
personnel Island territories they are
Baker Island Howland Island Jarvis
island Johnston atoll which is weird
because it's an incorporated unorganized
territory I don't even get that that's
like how's it incorporated but
unorganized Kingman reef Midway Atoll no
Vasa island Palmyra Atoll and Wake
Island in addition we have two disputed
island territories Baja Nuevo and Sarah
Nia and in addition to that it gets even
more complicated because the US has over
560 recognized Native American Indian
tribes and there are 326 Indian
reservations that most of them either
live on or have land on not all the
tribes have reservations some of the
tribes have more than one reservation
some of them share a reservation some of
them have reservations within other
reservations it's weird but yeah the US
has a lot of interesting confusion when
it comes to administrative divisions and
it's it's it's fascinating when you kind
of dive deeper into it that's my country
we got States a federal district we have
territories we have reservations we have
sleds it's a big huge crazy puzzle of
the United States anyway this was fun
hope you learned something if not at
least you could get a jogger for now -
you sure - Chuck all right hope you have
a good one stay cool stay tuned
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