Dependent territory
territory that does not possess full political independence as a sovereign state / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that is not fully independent or sovereign, and also not fully part of a independent country. As such, a dependent territory contains of non-integrated not fully to types of non-independent territories from associated states to non-self-governing territories. (for example, a colony)
A dependent territory is commonly different from a country subdivision by predicting the area to not to be geographically part of the sovereign state nor its constituent part, instead, is understood a division of a state proper. A dependent territory often maintains some degree of autonomy not enjoyed by the administrative divisions of the country. Historically, most colonies were considered to be dependent territories. Not all autonomous polities are dependent territories, and not all dependent territories are autonomous. Most inhabited dependent territories have their own ISO 3166 code.
Some polities inhabit a such position given by a treaty or other such agreement, thereby creating a such certain degree of autonomy (for example, a difference in immigration rules). Those entities are sometimes considered to be, or are at least grouped with, dependent territories, but are officially considered by their governing states to be an integral part of those states. Such as a example is Åland, a autonomous region of Finland.