00:00 The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a group of islands that are considered minor, and they are included in drop-down lists of countries online.

01:43 The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a group of nine islands that are separate territories of the United States, located in the Pacific and Caribbean, and are not the populated U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico or Guam.

03:20 The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a group of coral atolls located west to southwest of Hawaii, with each island having its own unique history and characteristics.

04:44 The major island in the United States Minor Outlying Islands was used for various purposes including refueling sea planes, serving as a submarine refueling base, and as a Coast Guard station, nuclear test site, missile testing site, biological warfare site, and chemical weapons storage and decommissioning site, but everything was closed down in 2003; Kingman Reef is barely an island and was only used by Pan Am in the 1930s for sea planes to stop; and the Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory currently in the United States and was briefly used as a naval base before being owned by the Nature Conservancy.

06:09 Midway Atoll was an important naval air base and the site of the Battle of Midway, while Wake Island has a history of being a major Pacific base for Pan Am flights and is currently controlled by the US military for missile testing.

07:36 The United States Minor Outlying Islands are not an actual legal term used by the United States, but rather a designation created by the International Standards Organization for countries and territories that are not independent nations.

09:06 The United States Minor Outlying Islands are a part of the United States, but no one lives there and it doesn't make sense for them to be listed as a country on forms.