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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]
The Mariana Islands have a total land area of 1,008 km 2 (389 sq mi). [2] They are composed of two administrative units: Guam, a United States territory; the Northern Mariana Islands (including the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota), which make up a Commonwealth of the United States.
English: Location map of the Northern Mariana Islands, USA. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 104 %. Geographic limits of the map: ... Template:Map of United ...
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 ...
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 ...
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] Its people have been United States citizens since the 1980s.
After the end of World War II, Tinian became part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, controlled by the United States. The island continued to be dominated by the United States military and was administered as a sub-district of Saipan until 1962. Since 1978, it has been a municipality of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Hotel on Rota Map of the four municipalities of the Northern Mariana Islands, with Rota highlighted in red. It is the southernmost. Rota (Chamorro: Luta), also known as the "Friendly Island", is the southernmost island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and the third southernmost of the Marianas Archipelago (the first being Cocos Island).