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In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on behalf of the Spanish Empire.
Saipan, Tinian, and Rota have the only ports and harbors and are the only permanently populated islands. ... the population of the CNMI was 47,329, ...
As of the 2010 census, the municipality is reported to be uninhabited.Pagan and Agrihan are known to have seasonal populations. Many Northern Island inhabitants have secondary residences on Saipan due to economic, educational or other needs.
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2011): [1] Age Group Male Female Total % Total 22 153 23 897 46 050 100 0–4 2 495 2 357 4 852 10.54 5–9
According to the Saipan Tribune, Sinapalo had a population of 1,297 in 2012, making up just over half of the island of Rota's population of 2,527. [ 3 ] 14°09′56″N 145°13′51″E / 14.1656°N 145.2308°E / 14.1656; 145
Previously, the Northern Mariana Islands has a population of 80,362 (2005 estimate). The official 2000 census count was 69,221. [ 3 ] The Northern Mariana Islands had the lowest male to female sex ratio in the world: 76 men to every 100 women, [ 1 ] due to a large number of female foreign workers, especially in the garment industry. [ 4 ]
The population of Tinian was 2,044 (as of 2020), which corresponds to less than 5% of all residents of the Northern Mariana Islands and a population density of 20 people per km 2. [33] Most of the inhabitants are Chamorros (about 75%) and members of various other groups of islands in the Caroline Islands. There are also minorities of Filipino ...
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.