American Samoa is a territory of the United States located in the South Pacific, southeast of the sovereign State of Samoa (formerly known as Western Samoa). In 1889, the U.S. seized the smaller group of eastern islands, one of contained the harbor of Pago Pago, which they planned to use as a coaling station for United State Naval vessels. Intimdating the native ruler into signing over rights to the islands, the United States Navy then took control over them. Today, American Samoa is the southernmost territory of the United States.

Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with its own established civilian government. Discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, the first colony was established in 1668 and for the next two centuries Guam was an important stop for the Spanish Manila Galleons. The island was controlled by Spain until 1898, when it was surrendered to the United States during the Spanish-American War. Guam was captured by the Japanese in 1941, and suffered a harsh occupation for two and a half years. After fierce fighting, US troops recaptured the island in 1944, a date celebrated every year on the island as Liberation Day.

Johnston Atoll is a small atoll in the North Pacific Ocean about 860 miles west of Hawaii. The atoll consists of four islands located on a coral reef: Johnston Island, Sand Island, North Island (Akau) and East Island (Hikina). Johnston is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Midway Island is an atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, about one-third of the way between Honolulu and Tokyo. Besides being the habitat for millions of seabirds, Midway is the former home of the Midway Naval Air Station. During World War II it was the location of the battle that was considered the turning point in the war in the Pacific. Midway was designated a National Wildlife Refuge in 1988, while still under the primary jurisdiction of the Navy. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Executive Order which transferred the jurisdiction and control of the atoll to the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Fish and Wildlife Service assumed management of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The last contingent of Navy personnel left Midway in 1997 after an ambitious environmental cleanup program was completed.

Navassa Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Navassa Island was claimed for the United States in 1857 by American sea captain Peter Duncan who wanted its rich guano deposits. In the 19th Century the practice of "guano mining" for Guano phosphate to use as fertilizer for American agriculture was a very profitable business.

The Northern Mariana Islands occupies a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines. More than 90% of the population lives on the island of Saipan.

Palmyra Atoll is an unoccupied equatorial Northern Pacific atoll administered as a US territory by the United States. The only population are essentially the staff and scientists employed by various departments of the US government and the Nature Conservancy, plus a rotating mixture scholars pursuing research in the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Palmyra is grouped as one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is perhaps the best known territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. It became a US Territory after the Spanish-American War, in which Spain, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, ceded the island to the United States. Although Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, the islanders may not vote in U.S. presidential elections. Since 1947, Puerto Ricans have been able to elect their own governor. The island's current political status, including the possibility of statehood or independence, is widely debated in Puerto Rico.

The Virgin Islands of the United States (or United States Virgin Islands) is a United States territory located in the Caribbean. The group of islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and consists of four main islands: Saint Croix, Saint John, Saint Thomas, and the smaller Water Island, and many other surrounding minor islands. Tourism is the primary economic activity. Formerly known as the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

The Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency is in charge of the islands primary response to, and care for those impacted by both natural and man-made disasters, and the following recovery from those disasters. The Agency is also in charge of the islands homeland security, its 911 emergency operations and emergency preparedness and response.

The Department of Tourism of the U.S. Virgin Islands launched a new un-official Virgin Islands flag as part of a new campaign to attract tourism early in 2009. Since then the flag has enjoyed some popularity and been seen displayed on many parts of the three main islands. The flag was designed by J. Walter Thompson and features a Mocko Jumbie (a type of traditional stilt dancer) as its main icon.

Wake Island is a small coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Since 1899, it has been a territory of the United States, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Access to the island is restricted, and all activities on the island are managed by the United States Air Force which maintains a runway there. There are no indigenous inhabitants and only United States military personnel live on the island. The island remains a strategic location in the North Pacific Ocean and serves as an emergency landing location for commercial transpacific flights. On January 6, 2009, President George W. Bush included the atoll as a part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

This unofficial flag of Wake Island was used to represent the island in the December 7, 2001, Pearl Harbor ceremony. The official flag for all U.S. minor outlying islands is the U.S. flag, but this unofficial one is also used.