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Guam (/ ˈ ɡ w ɑː m / ⓘ GWAHM; Chamorro: Guåhan [ˈɡʷɑhɑn]) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Guam's capital is Hagåtña , and the most populous village is Dededo .
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States. The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities .
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
A map from the early 1700s shows nearly 40 villages on Guam, mostly along the coastlines. The Spanish eventually emptied all of the northern and central villages of Guam, except for Hagåtña . The population of Guam and the entire Northern Marianas, except for Rota , was moved to Hagåtña, and five southern villages: Agat , Inarajan , Merizo ...
The U.S. territories include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. ... Each US territory elects one member of the House of Representatives ...
The United States became the TTPI's administering authority under the terms of a trusteeship agreement. In 1976, Congress approved the mutually negotiated Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America. [76] The Covenant was codified on March 24, 1976, as Public Law 94 ...
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.
Guam – organized, unincorporated territory of the United States of America that comprises the island of Guam in the western North Pacific Ocean. [1] It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. [2] The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.