Which American colony became a self-governing commonwealth and an unincorporated territory of the USA in July 1952 ?
Unincorporated territories of the United States a land area of approximately containing a population of approximately 4 million people; Puerto Rico alone comprises the vast majority of both the total area and total population. Of the 13 territories, five are inhabited. These are either organized or self-governing, but unincorporated. These are Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. There are also nine uninhabited U.S. possessions, of which only Palmyra Atoll is incorporated. (See Territories of the United States, Unorganized territory and insular area.) All modern inhabited territories under the control of the federal government can be considered as part of the
Self-governing colony originally part of Virginia. The Parliament of Bermuda, which now also includes a Senate, is the third-oldest in the Commonwealth of Nations, after the Tynwald and Westminster (currently the Parliament of the United Kingdom). Of the three, only Bermuda's has legislated continuously, with the Royalist camp maintaining control of the archipelago during the Commonwealth of England and the Protectorate. However, in the modern sense of the term, the first self-governing colony is generally considered to have been the Province of Canada, in 1841; the colony gained responsible government in 1849. All the colonies of British North America became self-governing between