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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. Saipan is about 12 mi (19 km) long and 5.6 mi (9.0 km) wide, with a land area of 115.38 km 2 (44.55 sq mi).
Topographic map of the island of Tinian, showing buildings as of 1999. Tinian is about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) southwest of Saipan, from which it is separated by the Saipan Channel. It has a land area of 39 square miles (100 km 2), with its highest elevation on the Kastiyu plateau at 187 meters (614 ft). It is considerably flatter than Saipan.
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.
The Japanese built military constructions on the island in the 1930s and, in December 1941, used it as a staging area to invade Guam, which was part of the U.S. at that time. During the Japanese mandate, the main economic focus was sugar production, and for example, about 98% of Tinian island was used to grow sugarcane. [26]
Map of the Northern Mariana Islands. Asuncion Island. The Marianas Trench, with some of deepest ocean on the planet wraps around the Northern Mariana's and is National Marine Monument since 2009. The Northern Mariana Islands, together with Guam to the south, compose the Mariana Islands.
Aguijan is separated from Tinian by Tinian Channel (1988 map) Map of soil types on the islands of Tinian and Aguijan. Aguijan is only 7.09 square kilometers (2.74 sq mi) in size, with a length of 4.7 km (2.9 mi) and a width of 1.8 km (1.1 mi). [5]
In 1947 Tinian was transferred from the U.S. Navy to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a territory controlled by the United States. [72] In 1962, Tinian was transferred to the administration of Saipan as a sub-district. In 1978, it became a municipality in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. West Field became part of ...
The mayor's office and municipality administration, traditionally in the village of Shomushon on Pagan, is now "in exile" on Saipan. In 2005 there were 99 votes cast in the municipality. [1] For the NMI House of Representatives, Northern Islands voters are grouped with one of the Saipan districts.