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This is a list of historic regions of the United States.
{* -indicates failed legal entities}
The Philippines was a commonwealth of the United States, 1935–1946
Worldwide location of current U. S. insular areas:
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
The following are state cessions made in the building of the U.S.
The following is a list of the 31 U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized.
The following are land grants, cessions, defined districts (official or otherwise) or named settlements made within an area that was already part of a state of the Union or U.S. territory that did not involve international treaties or Native American cessions or land purchases.
These entities were sometimes the only governmental authority in the listed areas, although they often co-existed with civil governments in scarcely populated states and territories. Civilian administered "military" tracts, districts, departments, etc., will be listed elsewhere.
During the Civil War the Department of the Pacific had six subordinate military districts:
These "territories" had actual, functioning governments (recognized or not):
Functioning governments created as a result of the attempted secession of the Confederacy. Some were enclaves within opposing territories:
These were regions disassociated from neighboring areas due to opposing views:
These entities have been proclaimed (or have existed de facto) in the past, but have never had an elected, recognized, or functioning government:
The unrecognized Sovereign State of Muskogee declared by William Bowles in 1799
The original Bear Flag only flew over California for 25 days, unrecognized by any country
Contemporary U.S. flag raised 23 June 1846 by Army Major John C. Frémont claiming California as a territory of the United States, replacing the short-lived Bear Flag Banner
Flag of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, 1894-1898.
Flag of the U.S. Territory of the Panama Canal Zone, flown 1903–1979
These are failed state or territorial proposals actually brought to either a congressional, legislative or popular vote; but which never became a functioning entity:
These are failed state or territorial proposals whose establishment proposals never were voted on, or never made it out of committee:
Belts are loosely defined sub-regions found throughout the United States:
Colorado, Denver, Kansas Territory, New Mexico Territory, Utah Territory
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England, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Virginia
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