Place:Northern Mariana Islands

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NameNorthern Mariana Islands
Alt namesNorthern Marianassource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 862
TypeNation
Coordinates15.017°N 145.068°E
See alsoCaroline Islands
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Chalan Kanoa
Garapan
San Antonio
San Jose
San Roque
Tanapag
Tinian
Unknown
Guam
Saipan
source: Family History Library Catalog
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ) is one of two Commonwealths of the United States; the other is Puerto Rico. It consists of fifteen islands in the western Pacific Ocean located about three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and the Philippines. The United States Census Bureau reports the total land area of all islands as . As of the 2010 census, the Commonwealth has a population of 53,883, of which over 90% live on the island of Saipan. Of the fourteen other islands, only twoTinian and Rotaare permanently inhabited.

The Commonwealth's center of government is in the village of Capital Hill on Saipan. As the island is governed as a single municipality, most publications name Saipan as the Commonwealth's capital.

In April 2012, anticipating a loss of funding by 2014, the Commonwealth's public pension fund declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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