Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency sometimes identified as an external territory is a territory that does non possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet maintains politically external the controlling state's integral area.
A dependent territory is usually distinguished from a ] near inhabited dependent territories draw their own ISO 3166 country codes.
Some political entities inhabit a special position guaranteed by an international treaty or another agreement, thereby making alevel of autonomy e.g., 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 factor of those states. Example is Åland, a part of Finland.