Editing Dependent territory (section)

===Australia===
{{Main|States and territories of Australia#External territories {{!}}States and territories of Australia § External territories}}

[[Australia]] has six external territories in its administration and one Antarctic claim.

Debate remains as to whether the external territories are integral parts of Australia,{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} due to their not being part of Australia in 1901, when its constituent states federated (with the exception of the [[Coral Sea Islands]], which was a part of [[Queensland]]).<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Carney
  | first = Gerard
  | title = The constitutional systems of the Australian states and territories
  | publisher = Cambridge University Press
  | year = 2006
  | location = Canberra
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6Pd8F1mFp1oC
  | isbn = 978-0-521-86305-6 }}</ref> Norfolk Island was self-governing from 1979 to 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/the-end-of-self-government-on-norfolk-island/7530806 |title=The end of Norfolk Island's self-government |work=ABC |last=Phillips |first=Keri |date=23 June 2016 |access-date=11 November 2020}}</ref> The external territories are often grouped separately from Australia proper for statistical purposes.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

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! External territory !! Administration !! ISO 3166 country code
|-
| {{flag|Christmas Island}} || rowspan=3 | Administered from [[Canberra]] by the [[Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts]]<ref name="DITRDC">{{cite web |title=Territories of Australia |url = https://www.regional.gov.au/territories/ |publisher=The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications |date=2020-02-28 |access-date=2020-04-25 |quote=The Australian Government, through the department, administers the Indian Ocean Territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island, the Jervis Bay Territory, the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, and the Coral Sea Islands. The department also manages the Government's interests in the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory.}}</ref> || [[ISO 3166-2:CX|CX]]
|-
| {{flag|Cocos (Keeling) Islands}} || [[ISO 3166-2:CC|CC]]
|-
| {{flag|Norfolk Island}} || [[ISO 3166-2:NF|NF]]
|-
! External territory<br />(uninhabited) !! Administration !! ISO 3166 country code
|-
| {{flag|Ashmore and Cartier Islands}} || rowspan=2 | Administered from Canberra by the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts<ref name="DITRDC" /> || rowspan="2" | No unique ISO 3166 country codes
|-
| {{flag|Coral Sea Islands}}{{NoteTag|[[Willis Island]] is permanently staffed and occupied by a small team of meteorologists.}}
|-
| {{flag|Heard Island and McDonald Islands|Heard Island <br/>and McDonald Islands}} || Administered from Canberra by the [[Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment]]<ref name="DITRDC" /> || [[ISO 3166-2:HM|HM]]
|-
! External territory<br />(uninhabited, claimed) !! Administration !! ISO 3166 country code
|-
| ''{{flag|Australian Antarctic Territory}}'' || Administered from Canberra by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment<ref name="DITRDC" /> || No unique ISO 3166 country codes
|}