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Mount Marpi in Saipan Map of soil types on the island of Saipan Saipan is the largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is about 120 mi (190 km) north of Guam and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) northeast of Tinian , from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel .
The Mariana Islands (/ ˌ m ær i ˈ ɑː n ə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
The Marianas and the Hawaiian islands are the world's foremost consumers, per capita, of Spam, with Guam at the top of the list and Hawaii second (details regarding the rest of the Marianas are often absent from statistics). Spam was introduced to the islands by the American military as war rations during World War II.
The Northern Mariana Islands, together with Guam to the south, compose the Mariana Islands. The southern islands are limestone, with level terraces and fringing coral reefs. The northern islands are volcanic, with active volcanoes on Anatahan, Pagan and Agrihan. The volcano on Agrihan has the highest elevation at 3,166 feet (965 m).
Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [22] Unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States: English: Northern Mariana Islands — Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas. Carolinian: Téél Falúw kka Efáng Ilól Marianas. Saipan [22] [24] 46,050 [30]
Tinian Municipality is one of the four constituent municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands. It consists of Tinian and Aguiguan islands and their offshore islets. The municipality is the second southernmost in the Northern Marianas and has a land area of 108.1 km 2 (41.7 sq mi).
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands – island country in the western North Pacific Ocean that maintains a political union with the United States. [1] The Northern Mariana Islands comprise 15 islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines , at 15°1′2″N 145°4′5″E / 15.01722°N 145.06806°E ...
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.