False. It includes countries and territories in BOTH cases. There aren't "hundreds" of territories in each country, you are confusing related territories (dependences or colonies) with provinces ,regions ,etc... These have nothing to do. Territories is meant for dependencies, Most of the countries have NONE. Few of them have some like for example the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Pitcairn, Montserrat , etc.... or for USA Guam, American Samoa, Northern Marianas,..... for France the French Guyana, the French Polynesia, Reunion, Mayotte, etc.... Anyway, in both cases countries and territories are included. The last 3 countries and/or territories to have beaten their official record of lowest temperatures are Egypt in 2008, Guinea in 2009 and Zambia in 2011.