In contrast to Category:Dependent territories

See also:

• Territories of the United States#Incorporated and unincorporated territories
• Overseas departments of France
• Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
• Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities and "plazas de soberanía"

For a discussion of Northern Ireland (and all of Ireland 1801-1922) as an integrated part of the United Kingdom, see Simon Winchester, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire (London & New York, 2003), p. 12.