This is a list of leaders of dependent territories. A dependent territory is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside of the controlling state's integral area.[1] This latter condition distinguishes a dependent territory from an autonomous region or administrative division, which forms an integral part of the 'parent' state.
The majority of the world's dependent territories are legacies of nineteenth and twentieth century colonial empires.[2] This list divides the world's inhabited dependent territories roughly into half: those which are dependencies of Commonwealth nations, formerly members of the British Empire and all of which have King Charles III as head of state; and the remainder. Governors, managers or wardens of uninhabited dependent territories are excluded.
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Current dependent territory leaders
Seven sovereign states possess one or more dependent territories: the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Norway.
Current leaders of autonomous or insular regions
Region, territory | Title | Name | Since |
---|---|---|---|
Aceh | Governor | Achmad Marzuki | 6 July 2022 |
Adjara | Chairman of the Supreme Council | Davit Gabaidze | 28 November 2016 |
Chairman of the Government | Tornike Rizhvadze | 21 July 2018 | |
Åland Islands | Governor | Marie Holm-Johansson | 3 April 2023 |
Chief Minister | Katrin Sjögren | 11 December 2023 | |
Alderney | Lieutenant-Governor (of Guernsey) | Sir Richard Cripwell | 15 February 2022 |
President | William Tate | 28 June 2019 | |
Andalusia | President | Juan Manuel Moreno | 18 January 2019 |
Aosta Valley | President | Erik Lavévaz | 21 October 2020 |
Aragon | President | Javier Lambán | 3 July 2015 |
Asturias | President | Adrián Barbón | 16 July 2019 |
President | Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry | 25 August 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Sardar Tanveer Ilyas | 18 April 2022 | |
Azores | Representative of the (Portuguese) Republic | Pedro Catarino | 11 April 2011 |
President of the Government | José Manuel Bolieiro | 24 November 2020 | |
Balearic Islands | President | Marga Prohens | 7 July 2023 |
Bangsamoro | Wali (Officer in Charge) | Omarkhalid Ampatuan | 1 March 2023 |
Chief Minister (interim) | Murad Ebrahim | 22 February 2019 | |
Barbuda | Chairperson of the Barbuda Council | Devon Warner | 17 January 2024 |
Basque Country | President (Lehendakari) | Iñigo Urkullu | 2012 |
Bougainville | President | Ishmael Toroama | 25 September 2020 |
Catalonia | President | Pere Aragonès i Garcia | 14 May 2018 |
Canary Islands | President | Ángel Víctor Torres | 29 September 2020 |
Cantabria | President | María José Sáenz de Buruaga | 5 July 2023 |
Carriacou and Petite Martinique | Minister for Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs | Kindra Maturin-Stewart | 25 March 2018 |
Castile–La Mancha | President | Emiliano García-Page | 1 July 2015 |
Castile and León | President | Alfonso Fernández Mañueco | 11 July 2019 |
Central Papua | Governor | Ribka Haluk | 11 November 2022 |
Ceuta | Mayor-President | Juan Jesús Vivas Lara | 2001 |
Corsica | Prefect | Pascal Lelarge | 19 August 2020 |
President of the Corsican Assembly | Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis | 1 July 2021 | |
President of the Executive Council | Gilles Simeoni | 17 December 2015 | |
Crimea | Presidential Representative | Tamila Tasheva | 25 April 2022 |
Chairmen of Parliament | vacant | 15 March 2014 | |
Prime minister | vacant | 15 March 2014 | |
Easter Island | Provincial Presidential Delegate | René De la Puente Hey | 14 July 2021 |
Mayor | Pedro Edmunds Paoa | 6 December 2012 | |
Extremadura | President | Guillermo Fernández Vara | 5 July 2015 |
Faroe Islands | High Commissioner | Lene Moyell Johansen | 9 May 2017 |
Prime Minister | Aksel Johannesen | 22 December 2022 | |
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina | President | Lidija Bradara | 28 February 2023 |
Prime Minister | Nermin Nikšić | 28 April 2023 | |
French Guiana | Prefect | Thierry Queffelec | 28 December 2020 |
President of the Territorial Authority | Gabriel Serville | 2 July 2021 | |
Friuli Venezia Giulia | President | Massimiliano Fedriga | 3 May 2018 |
Gagauzia | Governor | Irina Vlakh | 23 March 2015 |
Chairman of the Governing Council with Special Regime | Johan Sotomayor | 3 June 2021 | |
Galicia | President | Alfonso Rueda | 13 May 2022 |
Governor | Syed Mehdi Shah | 15 August 2022 | |
Chief Minister | Khalid Khurshid | 1 December 2020 | |
Gorno-Badakhshan | Chairmen of the Executive Committee | Alisher Khudoyberdi | 5 November 2021 |
Greenland | High Commissioner | Julie Wilche | 1 May 2022 |
Prime Minister | Múte Bourup Egede | 23 April 2021 | |
Guadeloupe | Prefect | Alexandre Rochatte | 10 August 2020 |
President of the Departmental Council | Guy Losbar | 1 July 2021 | |
President of the Regional Council | Ary Chalus | 17 December 2015 | |
Highland Papua | Governor | Velix Wanggai | 13 November 2023 |
Hong Kong | Chief Executive | John Lee | 1 July 2022 |
Jakarta | Governor | Heru Budi Hartono | 17 October 2022 |
Jan Mayen | Administrator[30] | Tom Cato Karlsen | 2 January 2019 |
Karakalpakstan | Chairmen of Parliament | Murad Kamalov | 2 October 2020 |
Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Kakhraman Sariyev | 14 October 2016 | |
Kurdistan Region | President | Nechervan Barzani | 10 June 2019 |
Prime minister | Masrour Barzani | 10 July 2019 | |
La Rioja | President | Concha Andreu | 29 August 2019 |
Chairman of the Lord Howe Island Board | Atticus Fleming | 1 January 2021 | |
Macau | Chief Executive | Ho Iat Seng | 20 December 2019 |
Madeira | Representative of the (Portuguese) Republic | Ireneu Barreto | 11 April 2011 |
President of the Government | Miguel Albuquerque | 20 April 2015 | |
Madrid | President | Isabel Díaz Ayuso | 19 August 2019 |
Administrator[31] | Matthew Groom | 31 March 2014 | |
Martinique | Prefect | Stanislas Cazelles | 27 February 2020 |
President of the Executive Council | Serge Letchimy | 2 July 2021 | |
Mayotte | Prefect | Thierry Suquet | 12 July 2021 |
President of the Departmental Council | Ben Issa Ousseni | 1 July 2021 | |
Melilla | Mayor-President | Eduardo de Castro González | 15 June 2019 |
Mount Athos | Head of State[32] | Nikos Dendias | 9 July 2019 |
Civil Governor[33] | Athanásios Martínos | 9 October 2019 | |
Spiritual Leader[34] | Bartholomew I | 22 October 1991 | |
Protos[35] | géron Georgios (Vatopedi) |
14 June 2021 | |
Murcia | President | Fernando López Miras | 3 May 2017 |
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic | Chairmen of the Supreme Assembly | Vasif Talıbov | 16 December 1995 |
Prime minister | Alovsat Bakhshiyev | 2000 | |
Navarre | President | María Chivite | 6 August 2019 |
Nevis | Deputy Governor-General (for Nevis) | Hyleta Liburd | 31 August 2018 |
Premier | Mark Brantley | 19 December 2017 | |
Northern Ireland | First Minister[36] | Michelle O'Neill[37] | 3 February 2024 |
Deputy First Minister[38] | Emma Little-Pengelly[37] | 3 February 2024 | |
Papua | Governor | Ridwan Rumasukun | 5 September 2023 |
Principe | President of the Regional Government | Filipe Nascimento | 18 August 2020 |
Republika Srpska | President | Milorad Dodik | 15 November 2022 |
Prime Minister | Radovan Višković | 19 December 2018 | |
Réunion | Prefect | Jacques Billant | 17 June 2019 |
President of the Departmental Council | Cyrille Melchior | 18 December 2017 | |
President of the Regional Council | Huguette Bello | 2 July 2021 | |
Rodrigues | Chief Commissioner | Johnson Roussety[39] | 5 March 2022 |
Chief Executive | Jean-Claude Pierre-Louis[40] | 21 March 2022 | |
Sardinia | President | Christian Solinas | 20 March 2019 |
Sark | Seigneur of Sark | Christopher Beaumont | 3 July 2016 |
Scotland | First Minister | John Swinney | 8 May 2024 |
Sicily | President | Nello Musumeci | 18 November 2017 |
South Papua | Governor | Apolo Safanpo | 11 November 2022 |
Southwest Papua | Governor | Muhammad Musa'ad | 9 December 2022 |
Svalbard | Governor | Lars Fause | 24 June 2021 |
Tobago | Chief Secretary of the House of Assembly | Farley Chavez Augustine | 9 December 2021 |
Torres Strait Islands | Chairperson of the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) | Pedro Stephen Napau | October 2016 |
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol | President | Maurizio Fugatti | 2 November 2018 |
Valencian Community | President | Ximo Puig | 25 June 2015 |
Wales | First Minister | Vaughan Gething | 20 March 2024 |
Vojvodina | President of the Government | Igor Mirović | 20 June 2016 |
West Papua | Governor | Ali Baham Temongmere | 1 November 2023 |
Yogyakarta | Governor | Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X | 3 October 1998 |
Zanzibar | President | Hussein Mwinyi | 3 November 2020 |
Leaders of dependent Commonwealth territories
State | Government | Head of state | Represented by | Head of government |
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Anguilla | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Julia Crouch | Premier Ellis Webster |
Bermuda | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Rena Lalgie | Premier Edward David Burt |
British Virgin Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Daniel Pruce | Premier Natalio Wheatley |
Cayman Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Jane Owen | Premier Julianna O'Connor-Connolly |
Christmas Island | Non-self-governing dependency | King Charles III of Australia | Administrator Sarah Vandenbroek | |
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Non-self-governing dependency | King Charles III of Australia | Administrator Sarah Vandenbroek | |
Cook Islands | Parliamentary democracy in free-association with New Zealand |
King Charles III of New Zealand | King's Representative (not otherwise styled) Sir Tom Marsters | Prime Minister Mark Brown |
Falkland Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Alison Blake | Chief Executive Andy Keeling |
Gibraltar | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Sir David Steel | Chief Minister Fabian Picardo |
Guernsey | Crown dependency | King Charles III of the United Kingdom (as Duke of Normandy) |
Lieutenant-Governor Richard Cripwell | Bailiff Sir Richard McMahon President Lyndon Trott |
Isle of Man | Crown dependency | King Charles III of the United Kingdom (as Lord of Mann) |
Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Lorimer | Chief Minister Alfred Cannan |
Jersey | Crown dependency | King Charles III of the United Kingdom (as Duke of Normandy) |
Lieutenant-Governor Jerry Kyd | Bailiff Sir Timothy Le Cocq Chief Minister Kristina Moore |
Montserrat | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Sarah Tucker | Premier Easton Taylor-Farrell |
Niue | Parliamentary democracy in free-association with New Zealand |
King Charles III of New Zealand | High Commissioner Helen Tunnah | Premier Dalton Tagelagi |
Norfolk Island | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of Australia | Administrator Eric Hutchinson | Self-government abolished in 2015 |
Pitcairn Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Iona Thomas | Mayor Simon Young |
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Non-self-governing dependency | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Nigel Phillips | Chief Minister Julie Thomas |
Tokelau | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of New Zealand | Administrator Don Higgins | Head of Government Keliliano Kalolo |
Turks and Caicos Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Charles III of the United Kingdom | Governor Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam | Premier Washington Misick |
Leaders of dependent non-Commonwealth territories
State | Government | Head of state | Head of territory | Head of government |
---|---|---|---|---|
Åland | Gubernatorial democracy | President Sauli Niinistö of Finland, represented by Governor Peter Lindbäck | Premier Veronica Thörnroos | |
American Samoa | Gubernatorial democracy | President Joe Biden of the United States | Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga | |
Aruba | Parliamentary democracy | King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, represented by Governor Alfonso Boekhoudt | Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes | |
Curaçao | Parliamentary democracy | King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, represented by Governor Lucille George-Wout | Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas | |
Faroe Islands | Parliamentary democracy | King Frederik X of Denmark, represented by High Commissioner Lene Moyell Johansen | Prime Minister Aksel V. Johannesen | |
French Polynesia | Presidential democracy | President Emmanuel Macron of France, represented by High Commissioner Éric Spitz | President Moetai Brotherson | |
Greenland | Parliamentary democracy | King Frederik X of Denmark, represented by High Commissioner Julie Præst Wilche | Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede | |
Guam | Gubernatorial democracy | President Joe Biden of the United States | Governor Lou Leon Guerrero | |
New Caledonia | Parliamentary democracy | President Emmanuel Macron of France, represented by High Commissioner Louis Le Franc | President of the Government Louis Mapou | |
Northern Mariana Islands | Gubernatorial democracy | President Joe Biden of the United States | Governor Arnold Palacios | |
Puerto Rico | Gubernatorial democracy | President Joe Biden of the United States | Governor Pedro Pierluisi | |
Sint Maarten | Parliamentary democracy | King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, represented by Governor Ajamu Baly | Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs | |
U.S. Virgin Islands | Gubernatorial democracy | President Joe Biden of the United States | Governor Albert Bryan | |
Wallis and Futuna | Presidential democracy | President Emmanuel Macron of France, represented by Administrator-Superior Blaise Gourtay | President of the Territorial Assembly Munipoese Muliʻakaʻaka |
See also
- Administrative division
- Colonial governors by year
- List of leaders of dependent territories in 2024
- List of current presidents of assembly
- List of current governors of Afghanistan
- List of current governors in Indonesia
- List of provincial governors in Argentina
- List of Brazil states governors
- List of current Canadian lieutenant governors and commissioners
- List of Ghanaian regional ministers
- List of current Indian governors, List of current Indian lieutenant governors and administrators & List of current Indian chief ministers
- List of governors of Japan
- List of leaders of Malaysian states
- List of Mexican state governors
- List of Nigerian state governors
- List of current Pakistani governors & List of current Pakistani chief ministers
- List of Palau states governors
- List of current Philippine provincial governors
- List of heads of federal subjects of Russia
- List of Spanish regional legislatures & governments
- List of state leaders by year
- List of Sudan states governors
- List of current United States governors
References
- ^ United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514
- ^ Armstrong, H. W., and R. Read. 2000. "Comparing the Economic Performance of Dependent Territories and Sovereign Microstates". Economic Development and Cultural Change 48 (2). 285–306. doi:10.1086/452459.
- ^ a b Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories
- ^ a b Director of the Australian Antarctic Division.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Acting to 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Governor Rena Lalgie Arrives in Bermuda". Bernews. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ McWhirter, Fiona; Johnston-Barnes, Owain (15 December 2020). "History made as new Governor is sworn in at closed event". The Royal Gazette (Bermuda). Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ Acting to 22 Aug 2014.
- ^ a b c Director of the Polar Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
- ^ Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007, article 42.
- ^ "Acting BVI Premier Against Any Suspension of the Constitution". Loop Caribbean News. 29 April 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ Previously from 2003 – 14 October 2011.
- ^ Since 21 February 2007, directly administered by the French minister of Overseas France.
- ^ The authority of the French minister of Overseas France on Clipperton Island is delegated to the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia
- ^ "Florence Jeanblanc-Risler nouvelle préfète des Taaf". Le Marin (in French). 6 October 2022.
- ^ "48 U.S. Code § 1422 - Governor and Lieutenant Governor; term of office; qualifications; powers and duties; annual report to Congress".
- ^ Interim to 6 December 2021.
- ^ Director of Program Palmyra of The Nature Conservancy.
- ^ The British high commissioner to New Zealand.
- ^ Chief Executive Officer of Antarctica New Zealand.
- ^ The prefect of Guadeloupe is also state representative in Saint-Barthelemy from 9 July 2007.
- ^ a b Delegated by the prefect of Guadeloupe
- ^ "Philip Kendall sworn-in as Tristan Administrator".
- ^ The prefect of Guadeloupe is also state representative in Saint-Martin from 9 July 2007.
- ^ Acting to 22 June 2021.
- ^ Since 3 October 1985, the governor of the Falkland Islands.
- ^ Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs.
- ^ Also General Counsel of the US Air Force.
- ^ Since 1 January 1995, Jan Mayen is administered by the governor of Nordland county.
- ^ Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage of Tasmania.
- ^ Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Greek government.
- ^ The Civil Governor of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos is appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Greek government.
- ^ Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople.
- ^ Dean of the Holy Epistasis of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos.
- ^ Jointly with the Deputy First Minister
- ^ a b "Time to build a better future for everyone – O'Neill and Little-Pengelly". The Executive Office. 14 March 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Jointly with the First Minister
- ^ Previously chef commissaire from 4 August 2006 to 12 January 2011.
- ^ Previously Chief Executive from 24 October 2004 to 5 March 2010.