overseas territory

overseas territory
a) A country or smaller territory which politically is either an integral part of - or in some dependent (e.g. colonial) relationship with another state, but is geographically separated from that mother state by the sea, without bordering it or its coastal waters
b) A more specific status legally defined under a constitution for one or more of the above territories

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