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INTRODUCTION

The site Freedom in the Territories ranks particular territories according to their political freedoms and their civil rights. "Particular territories" means: colonies, dependencies, overseas territories, commonwealths, territories in conflict between two countries or self-declared independent. Moreover, there are particular territories like regions, provinces or states which have a different situation of political freedoms or civil rights with respect to the country.

 

Last update 16/10/24:

PF=Political Freedoms CR=Civil Rights

 


TERRITORY              PF  CR           STATUS        TYPE OF TERRITORY


UNITED STATES
 
Puerto Rico            1   2            FREE          American Organized and not Incorporated Territory
American Virgin Islands2   1            FREE          American Organized and not Incorporated Territory
Guam                   2   1            FREE          American Organized and not Incorporated Territory
Northern Marianas      2   1            FREE          Commonwealth
American Samoa         2   1            FREE          American not Incorporated and not Organized Territory

 
UNITED KINGDOM
 
Northern Ireland       2   3            FREE          Country
Isle of Man            1   1            FREE          British Crown's Dependency
Jersey                 1   1            FREE          British Crown's Dependency
Guernsey               1   1            FREE          British Crown's Dependency
Sark Island            2   1            FREE          Island part of Guernsey Dependency 
Alderney               2   1            FREE          States part of Guernsey Dependency
Gibraltar              2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Anguilla               2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Bermuda                2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Cayman Islands         2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
British Virgin Islands 2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory 
Montserrat             2   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Turks and Caicos       2   2            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Falkland(Malvines)     1   1            FREE          British Overseas Territory
Pitcairn               2   2            FREE          British Overseas Territory
St.Helena,Ascension and Tristan da Cunha  2   1  FREE British Overseas Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory +          4   4  PARTLY FREE        British Overseas Territory
 
 
FRANCE
 
Corsica                2   2            FREE          Unitary Collectivity
Guadeloupe             2   2            FREE          Overseas Region
Martinique             2   2            FREE          Overseas Region
Saint Martin           2   1            FREE          Overseas Collectivity
Saint Barthelemy       2   1            FREE          Overseas Collectivity
French Guiana          2   2            FREE          Overseas Region
Mahore(Mayotte)        2   2            FREE          Overseas Region
Reunion Islands        2   2            FREE          Overseas Region
New Caledonia -        2   2            FREE          Overseas Territory
French Polynesia       2   1            FREE          Overseas Country
St.Pierre and Miquelon 2   2            FREE          Overseas Collectivity
Wallis and Futuna      2   2            FREE          Overseas Collectivity
 
 
DENMARK

Greenland              1   1            FREE          Autonomous Country 
Faroe Islands          1   1            FREE          Autonomous Country
 
 
NETHERLANDS
 
Curaçao                1   1            FREE          Constituent Country
Sint Maarten           1   2            FREE          Constituent Country
Aruba                  1   1            FREE          Constituent Country
Bonaire                2   1            FREE          Special Municipality
Saba                   1   1            FREE          Special Municipality
Sint Eustatius         1   1            FREE          Special Municipality 
 

FINLAND
 
Aland Islands          1   1            FREE          Autonomous Province
 
 
NORWAY
 
Svalbard               1   1            FREE          Territory
 
 
SPAIN
 
Canary Islands         1   1            FREE          Autonomous Community
Ceuta                  1   2            FREE          Autonomous Community
Melilla                1   2            FREE          Autonomous Community
Basque Region          2   1            FREE          Autonomous Community
Catalonia              3   2            FREE          Autonomous Community
Galicia                1   1            FREE          Autonomous Community


PORTUGAL
 
Azores                 1   1            FREE          Autonomous Region
Madeira                1   1            FREE          Autonomous Region
 

AUSTRALIA
 
Christmas Island       2   2            FREE          Australian Gov.'s Territory
Norfolk Island         3   1            FREE          Council 
Cocos Islands(Keeling) 2   1            FREE          Australian Gov.'s Territory
 
 
NEW ZEALAND
 
Cook Islands           2   2            FREE          Free Associated Autonomous Territory  
Niue                   2   1            FREE          Free Associated Autonomous Territory
Tokelau                1   1            FREE          Island Territory
Chatham Islands        1   1            FREE          Autonomous District
 
 
ISRAEL
 
Gaza Strip             7   7            NOT FREE      Territory under the control of the Hamas guerrilla
West Bank              7   5            NOT FREE      Territory claimed by the Palestinian Authority
Golan Heights          3   5            PARTLY FREE   Territory claimed by Syria
 
 
GREECE
 
Mount Athos            3   2            FREE          Autonomous State


CYPRUS
 
Northern Cyprus        3   3            PARTLY FREE   Self declared independent country


TURKEY

Turkish Kurdistan      6   6            NOT FREE      Separatist Territory
 
 
SERBIA
 
Vojvodina              3   3            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Province
Kosovo                 5   4            PARTLY FREE   Self declared independent country
Mitrovica              6   5            NOT FREE      Province in Kosovo in conflict/separatist area


BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
 
Sprska Rebublic        5   4            PARTLY FREE   Entity
Croatian-Muslim Fed.   4   4            PARTLY FREE   Entity
Brcko                  6   5            NOT FREE      Entity with a transitional UN Administration


MOLDOVA

Transnistria           5   6            NOT FREE      Self declared independent republic
Gagauzia               3   4            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Region


RUSSIA

Primoski               6   5            NOT FREE      Region
Gorno-Altay            6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Karelia                6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Khakassia              6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Komi                   6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Mordvinia              6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Udmurtia               6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Yakutia-Sakha          6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Buryatia               6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Chuvasia               6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Tuva                   6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Kalmykia               6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Mari El                6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Bashkortostan          6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Tatarstan              6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Northern Ossetia       6   5            NOT FREE      Republic
Dagestan               6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Adygea                 6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Kabardino-Balkaria     6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Karachay-Cherkessia    6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Ingushetia             6   6            NOT FREE      Republic
Chechnya               7   7            NOT FREE      Republic 
 

UKRAINE
 
Crimea                 7   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Republic occupied by Rusia
Donbas -               7   7            NOT FREE      Separatist Region


GEORGIA
 
Abkhazia -             5   5            PARTLY FREE   Self declared independent country
South Ossetia          6   6            NOT FREE      Self declared independent country 
Adzharia               4   5            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Republic
 

AZERBAIJAN
 
Nakhichevan            6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Republic
Artsakh -              6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region 
 
 
TAJIKISTAN
 
Gorno Badakhsan        6   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Province
 
 
UZBEKISTAN
 
Karakalpakstan         7   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Republic
Sokh District          7   7            NOT FREE      Enclave within Kyrgyzstan
 
 
IRAQ
 
Kurdistan              6   4            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Region
 
 
INDIA
 
Jammu and Kashmir -    6   5            NOT FREE      State       
Assam                  4   6            PARTLY FREE   State
Gujarat                4   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Manipur                4   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Nagaland               4   4            PARTLY FREE   State
Bihar                  3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Jharkhand              3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Tripura                3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Chhattisgarh           3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Andhra Pradesh         3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Orissa                 3   5            PARTLY FREE   State
Maharashtra            3   4            PARTLY FREE   State
West Bengal            3   4            PARTLY FREE   State
Punjab                 3   4            PARTLY FREE   State
Meghalaya              3   4            PARTLY FREE   State
Arunachal Pradesh      3   4            PARTLY FREE   State

 
PAKISTAN
 
Tribal Areas           7   7            NOT FREE      Special autonomous Territory
Balochistan            6   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Province
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa     6   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Province
Kashmir                6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region       


CHINA
 
Guangxi Zhuang         7   5            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Nei Monggol            7   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Ningxia Hui            7   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Xinjiang Uygur         7   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Xizang(Tibet)          7   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Hong Kong -            6   4            PARTLY FREE   Special Administrative Region
Macau                  6   4            PARTLY FREE   Special Administrative Region


MYANMAR

Kayin State            7   7            NOT FREE      State
Mon State              7   7            NOT FREE      State
Kachin State           7   7            NOT FREE      State
Chin State             7   7            NOT FREE      State
Shan State             7   7            NOT FREE      State
Rakhine State -        7   7            NOT FREE      State
Kokang                 7   7            NOT FREE      Special autonomous region


LAOS
 
Xaisomboun             7   7            NOT FREE      Territory under guerrilla activity
 
 
THAILAND

South.Muslim Provinces 6   5            NOT FREE      Separatist Provinces


MALAYSIA

Sarabak                4   5            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous State
Sabah                  5   5            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous State
 

INDONESIA
 
Riau                   3   4            PARTLY FREE   Province
East Kalimantan        3   4            PARTLY FREE   Province
West Timor             3   4            PARTLY FREE   Province
Ambon                  3   4            PARTLY FREE   Separatist Province
Sulawesi               3   5            PARTLY FREE   Province
Yogyakarta             3   4            PARTLY FREE   Special Autonomous Territory
Aceh -                 4   6            PARTLY FREE   Special Autonomous Territory
West Papua(Irian Jaya)-5   6            NOT FREE      Separatist Province
 
 
TIMOR LESTE
 
Oecusse Ambeno         2   3            FREE          Special District


PHILIPPINES
 
Mindanao               4   5            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Region
 
 
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
 
Bougainville           3   4            PARTLY FREE   Autonomous Region

 
FIJI
 
Rotuma Island          3   2            FREE          Dependency

 
MOROCCO
 
Western Sahara         6   6            NOT FREE      Separatist Territory
 
 
SENEGAL
 
Casamance              3   4            PARTLY FREE   Separatist Territory


MALI
 
Northern Mali -        7   7            NOT  FREE     Separatist Territory
 
 
GHANA
 
Upper West             2   4            PARTLY FREE   Region


NIGERIA
 
Northern States        6   7            NOT FREE      States
Adamawa                5   6            NOT FREE      State
Niger Delta            5   6            NOT FREE      State


CAMEROON 

Ambazonia              6   7            NO FREE       Separatist Territory


CONGO KINSHASA

Ituri                  6   7            NOT FREE      Province in civil war
North Kivu             7   7            NOT FREE      Province in civil war
Katanga                6   7            NOT FREE      Province in civil war
Kasai -                6   7            NOT FREE      Province in civil war
Lomami -               7   7            NOT FREE      Province in civil war
 

ANGOLA
 
Cabinda                6   5            NOT FREE      Separatist Province
 

NAMIBIA
 
Caprivi                5   5            PARTLY FREE   Province 
 

SOMALIA

Somaliland             4   5            PARTLY FREE   Self declared independent country
Puntland               6   5            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Jubaland               6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous State
Galmudug               6   5            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region
Khatumo                6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous State
Central Regions        6   6            NOT FREE      Self declared Autonomous Region
South West             6   6            NOT FREE      Autonomous State
Awdalland              6   6            NOT FREE      Region disputed between Somalia and Somaliland


SUDAN
 
Abyei                  7   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region Disputed with South Sudan
Blue Nile              7   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region 
Southern Kordofan      7   7            NOT FREE      Autonomous Region 
East Sudan             7   7            NOT FREE      Zone in a conflict area
Darfur                 7   7            NOT FREE      Zone in a conflict area
 
 
ETHIOPIA
 
Gambela                6   7            NOT FREE      Region
Oromia                 6   7            NOT FREE      State 
 
 
TANZANIA
 
Zanzibar               6   5            NOT FREE      Semi-Autonomous part of Tanzania


MAURITIUS
 
Rodrigues Island       3   3            PARTY FREE    Dependency


CHILE
 
Easter Island          3   3            PARTLY FREE   Special Territory


 



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