A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area. As such, a dependent territory includes a range of non-integrated not fully to non-independent territory types, from associated states to non-self-governing territories.
Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark in North America
Aruba, a Dependent territory of the Netherlands in the Caribbean
Bora Bora Island, French Polynesia
Diego Garcia Island, British Indian Ocean Territory
A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal.
Lapland is a sparsely populated territory in Northern Europe. A view from Saana in Finnish Lapland