Article 1.1 defines the territory of the United States and France for purposes of applying the Agreement.  The definition of United States territory is identical to the definition of the United States in section 210(i) of the Act.  That definition includes the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa, but not the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI).  However, the Covenant establishing the NMI Commonwealth in political union with the United States provides that the U.S. Social Security program is to apply in the NMI as it applies in Guam.  Since all U.S. Social Security agreements apply to Guam, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) began applying the agreements to the NMI on January 1, 1987, when the U.S. Social Security program was first extended there.

The definition of French territory  includes the territory of the French Republic on the European Continent as well as the overseas departments of Guadeloupe, Guiana, Martinique and Reunion.