Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency sometimes returned as an outside territory is the territory that does non possess full political independence or sovereignty as the sovereign state, yet remains politically external the controlling state's integral area.
A dependent territory is commonly distinguished from a ] almost inhabited dependent territories do their own ISO 3166 country codes.
Some political entities inhabit a special position guaranteed by an international treaty or another agreement, thereby creating 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 component of those states. Example is Åland, a element of Finland.