The U.S. has 16 territories in areas of the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean. People living in U.S. territories are citizens of ...

It also excludes the places that are still territories of the United States—Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was also ...

While obtaining territory from another country ... Florida became a state in 1845. During this period, the United States pursued territorial expansion as part of “manifest destiny,” the ...

In the United States, clocks change twice a year with the exception of Arizona, minus the Navajo Nation, Hawaii and a number of territories, including Puerto Rico. More INA FASSBENDER/AFP/GETTY ...

A territory’s residents don’t necessarily ... island’s roughly 57,000 residents “want to be with us.” Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959, nearly 18 years after the Japanese bombed ...