Dependent Territories of the World

As far as I know, the entire population was relocated around 1970. The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel, which makes it nothing but a military base.

Dude, I pointed it out among the tips: a large array of dependency pathways. Every territory you have named, likewise are the others in the list, is geographically detached from their motherland (well, except the Crown Dependencies in the Irish Sea and in the English Channel), derives its lack of sovereignty from a colonial past - and moreover, it is not considered to be a fully ordinary administrative unit thanks to their specificity. For all of them, indeed, it's not preposterous to imagine a (even barely hypothetical) future aim to self-determination. That's all. I do not rest on any UN provisional category, comparative public law hierarchy or similar stuff. This quiz is about non-disputed, non-unrecognized, non-uninhabited, non-countries.

The territories on the list are not considered to be normal administrative divisions. Hawaii is one of the 50 States, Northern Ireland is one of the 4 parts of the United Kingdom, Corsica is one of the 18 regions of France (as well as Sardinia and Sicily are for Italy). All of them are fully integrated into the main administrative pattern.

Indeed, I was quite undecided whether to include them or not. As far as it seems understandable, it is about some indefinite loan of ground for military purposes - with British Government openly excluding civilian uses - and some thousands Cypriots still detaining private rights on properties and Cyprus' Government running some facilities located within the bases, such as an ancient monastery. It's not clear to me whether Cypriots fully have the right to live there, but everything appears more or less theoretically provisional. Like at Guantanamo Bay, did not US and Cuba fiercely hate each other.

I guess, the territories on the list should have developed some sort of autonomous or even self-styled identity. Is it the case for Akrotiri and Dhekelia? I would be eager to hear it from any locals!

Thanks for the tip about the spelling, I will fix it. As far as your other advise is concerned, please refer to the (two) answer(s) I gave here above to CTRH1. Cheers!

None of them is permanently inhabited. It was one of my totally arbitrarily set caveats

holy sh*t dude, what is irritating is your stubborn, conceited way of making your points.

Guad. Mart. Fr.G. Réu. and May.'s journey from overseas outposts to fully integrated administrative regions does not cancel the very straightforward fact they were subjected to independence movements, or at least stances.

Mayotte became an outermost EU region as late as 2014, but I am pretty sure if you take a walk in Mamoudzou you still can perceive a bit of "otherness" than you were sipping you café in Paris. Just suggesting, uh.

This cannot apply to any of the aforementioned, Hawaii, Acores/Mad., Canary, or Svalbard. What could have developed into a partly or fully, different character than the motherlands due to colonial past, there simply did not happen, at least during decolonization in XX Century.

Hawaii only possible exception, which I could include in the quiz after more thorough evaluation.

Again, do not be so hideous when replying. Try and being more polite. Bye