Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a non-self-governing territory as a territory "whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government". Chapter XI of the UN Charter also
United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/66 (I) dated 14 January 1946
French Polynesia
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French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country; it is classified as a non-self-governing territory by the United Nations. It comprises 121 geographically disperse
United Nations list of non-self-governing territories
…powers were later allowed to remove dependent territories from the list, either unilaterally (as in the case of French overseas territories such as French Polynesia), or by a vote of the General Assembly (as in the cases of Puerto Rico, Greenland, the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname). The list draws its origins…
A two-franc World War II emergency-issue banknote (1943), printed in Papeete, and depicting the outline of Tahiti on the reverse
The French frigate Floréal in November 2002, at anchor in Bora Bora lagoon
The Assembly of French Polynesia
Bora Bora