554,256

Area in
square
miles

Formation

69 Established under Art. I, sec. 8, clause 17 of Constitution. Territory originally ceded by Mary-
land (legislative act of Dec. 23, 1788) and Virginia (legislative act of Dec. 3, 1789). Cessions
accepted by Congress by act of July 16, 1790; lines and bounds established by proclamation
of President Washington, Mar. 30, 1791. Virginia's cession retroceded by act of Congress
July 9, 1846. The government of the District is administered by a Mayor and a 13-member
Council, all of whom are elected by the citizens of the District of Columbia. All acts of the
council are reviewable by Congress. (Dec. 24, 1973, Pub. L. 93-198.) Pursuant to the Dis-
trict of Columbia Delegate Act the District of Columbia now has a non-voting Delegate to
the House of Representatives. (Sept. 22, 1970, Pub. L. 91-405, §§ 201-206, 84 Stat. 848.)

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COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, THE INSULAR POSSESSIONS, AND TRUST TERRITORY OF THE
PACIFIC ISLANDS

132 By purchase from Denmark, Mar. 3, 1917, for $25,000,000. The Revised Organic Act of 1954 is
the basis for the present territorial government.

Occupied during World War II. Placed under the United Nations Trusteeship system in 1947
by agreement with the Security Council of the United Nations.

184 Concluded future political status negotiations in 1975 which will establish a commonwealth re-
lationship with the U.S. at termination of the trusteeship. Covenant providing this relation-
ship passed by Congress in March 1976 (P.L. 94-241).

1Administered under jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, with a locally drafted constitution and elected governor and legislature.

2 As of November 3, 1986 the Marshall Islands and the Federal States of Micronesia became freely associated states. The 1990 population of the remaining territory, the Republic of Palau, was 15,122.

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