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The nine states where UT's may be found are Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Unorganized territories also exist in certain regions of Canada, such as Northern Ontario where there is no region-wide level of government.
Unorganized territory also refers to a unincorporated territory of the United States for which the United States Congress has not enacted an organic act. Typically unorganized territories were lands possessed by the federal U.S. government but undivided into territories, states or military-led departments.
American Samoa which is administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, is the only current unorganized territory.