Under Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations, the Non-Self-Governing Territories are defined as "territories whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government”. The General Assembly, by its resolution 66 (I) of 14 December 1946, noted a list of 72 Territories to which Chapter XI of the Charter applied. In 1963, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (also known as the "Special Committee on Decolonization" or the "C-24") approved a preliminary list of Territories to which the Declaration applied (A/5446/Rev.1, annex I). Today, 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, as listed below, remain on the agenda of the C-24. Member States which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of such Territories are called administering Powers.
LIST OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES BY REGION
TERRITORY
LISTING AS NSGT
ADMINISTERING POWER
LAND AREA (sq.km.)
POPULATION [i]
AFRICA
Since 1963
266,000
612,000
ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN
Since 1946
United Kingdom
96
15,899
Since 1946
United Kingdom
53.35
63,982
Since 1946
United Kingdom
153
33,595
Since 1946
United Kingdom
264
71,105
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) [iii]
Since 1946
United Kingdom
12,173
3,662
Since 1946
United Kingdom
103
4,433
Since 1946
United Kingdom
310
5,146
Since 1946
United Kingdom
948.2
49,309
Since 1946
United States
352
105,413
EUROPE
Since 1946
United Kingdom
5.8
34,003
PACIFIC
Since 1946
United States
200
49,710
1946-1947 and since 2013
France
3,600
279,550
Since 1946
United States
540
153,836
1946-1947 and since 1986
France
18,575
268,500
Since 1946
United Kingdom
35.5
42
Since 1946
New Zealand
12.2
1,647
(Last updated: 9 May 2024)
[i] All data is from United Nations Secretariat 2020 Working Papers on Non-Self-Governing Territories, and for Western Sahara, from UNdata, a database by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.
[ii] On 26 February 1976, Spain informed the Secretary-General that as of that date it had terminated its presence in the Territory of the Sahara and deemed it necessary to place on record that Spain considered itself thenceforth exempt from any responsibility of any international nature in connection with the administration of the Territory, in view of the cessation of its participation in the temporary administration established for the Territory. In 1990, the General Assembly reaffirmed that the question of Western Sahara was a question of decolonization which remained to be completed by the people of Western Sahara.
[iii] A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
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