United States

In this title, the term “United States”, when used in a geographic sense, means the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.

Source

46 USC § 114


Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (chapter 1) of this section.
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