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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]
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]
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System, which is headquartered in Susupe, [1] serves the town. Marianas High School is located in Susupe, across the street from the House of Justice. Joeten-Kiyu Public Library (JKPL) of the State Library of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is in Susupe. [2]
Garapan was a minor settlement during the Spanish colonial period of Saipan, and a location to which the Chamorros forcibly relocated from other islands in the Northern Marianas were housed before being transferred to Guam. The forced transfer of the Chamorros to Guam was completed by 1749 and Saipan was recorded as uninhabited.
Capitol Hill (Former Japanese name: 中山, Nakayama; sometimes spelled Capital Hill, [2] formerly Army Hill under the United States Navy [3]) is a settlement (sometimes termed a village or district) on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. [4] [5] [6] It has a population of just over 1,000. [1]
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.
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Public School System operates local public schools. William S. Reyes Elementary School is located in Chalan Kanoa. [2] It is named after the CNMI's first superintendent of education, William Sablan Reyes.
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 ]