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  2. Mariana Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Mariana Islands are the southern part of a submerged mountain range that extends 1,565 miles (2,519 km) from Guam to near Japan. Geographically, the Marianas are part of a larger region called Micronesia, situated between 13° and 21°N latitude and 144° and 146°E longitude. The Mariana Islands have a total land area of 1,008 km 2 (389 sq ...

  3. Northern Mariana Islands - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), [b] [11] is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [12]

  4. Compact of Free Association - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, the compacts with the RMI and FSM were renewed for 20 years. These new compacts provided US$3.5 billion in funding for both countries. US$30 million will also be disbursed annually among American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands in "Compact Impact" funding. This funding helps the governments of these localities ...

  5. Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands - Wikipedia

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    Saipan [2] (/ s aɪ ˈ p æ n /) is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.According to 2020 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the population of Saipan was 43,385. [3]

  6. Territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Following failed efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to reunify Guam and the Northern Marianas, [67] a covenant to establish the Northern Mariana Islands as a commonwealth in political union with the United States was negotiated by representatives of both political bodies; it was approved by Northern Mariana Islands voters in 1975, and came into ...

  7. Northern Mariana citizenship and nationality - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Mariana Islands were a German protectorate until 1919, when they became part of the South Seas Mandate, administered by Japan. [4] [5] At the close of World War II, the Marianas became part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. [6] In 1975, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands became a self-governing territory.

  8. U.S. territorial sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Several islands in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea are dependent territories of the United States. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , Guantanamo Bay , notionally under the sovereignty of Cuba , is administered by the United States under a perpetual lease, much as the Panama Canal Zone used to be before the signing of the Torrijos ...

  9. Guam - Wikipedia

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    It is the southernmost and largest island in the Mariana Islands, as well as the largest in Micronesia. [35] Guam's Point Udall is the westernmost point of the U.S., as measured from the geographic center of the United States. [36] [37] The Mariana chain, of which Guam is a part, was created by collision of the Pacific and Philippine Sea ...