U.S. territories include numerous tropical island groups. Which of these is NOT one of them?

Located in the South Pacific next to American Samoa, the Cook Islands are a self-governing island country with strong ties to New Zealand. In the past, the U.S. claimed sovereignty over the Cook Islands of Pukapuka (pictured here), Manihiki, Rakahanga, and Penrhyn but relinquished those claims in a 2009 treaty between the two nations.

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