US Territories

There are 12 US territories. They are Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll.


Palmyra Atoll, Navassa Island, Kingman Reef, "Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands", Johnston Atoll, Wake Island, and Midway Islands have virtually no inhabitants and the others have. Puerto Rico with population of 3,897,960 and area of 9,104 sq km is the largest one. What is interesting about Puerto Rico is that Puerto Ricans do not have right to vote. In fact Puerto Rico is a sort of self-ruled commonwealth. It seems to me that Puerto Ricans should have the right to vote at least in presidential elections, since this right is apparently clarified in Amendments XV, XIX, XXIV, XXVI of the US constitution. However the residents of Puerto Rico voted for Commonwealth system in 1993 and as a result they don't have any voting delegates in the Congress and they do not have right to vote in presidential elections. I will talk more about that later.