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5 days ago · Guam, island and unincorporated territory of the United States in the North Pacific Ocean, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. It lies about 5,800 miles (9,300 km) west of San Francisco and 1,600 miles (2,600 km) east of Manila.
- Hagåtña
Hagåtña, town, capital of the unincorporated U.S. territory...
- Spanish-American War
Spain’s military was outmatched from the opening of...
- Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands. Northern Mariana Islands, a...
- Hagåtña
3 days ago · Under the 1898 Treaty of Paris, Spain ceded Guam to the U.S. effective April 11, 1899. Before World War II, Guam was one of five American jurisdictions in the Pacific Ocean, along with Wake Island in Micronesia, American Samoa and Hawaii in Polynesia, and the Philippines.
2 days ago · They became part of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) in 1947, administered by the United States as U.N. trustee. [69] [61] The other constituents of the TTPI were Palau , the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands . [70]
- 22,294.19 km² (8,607.83 sq mi)
- American
May 1, 2024 · Guam became a hub for whalers and traders in the western Pacific in the early 1800s. During the 1898 Spanish-American War, the US Navy occupied Guam and set up a military administration. The US Navy opposed local control of government despite repeated petitions from the Chamorro.
2 days ago · In 1899 Spain sold the Northern Marianas to Germany in the Spanish-German Treaty of 1899, while Guam went to the United States. At the end of World War I, with the defeat of Germany, the islands became a part of the Japanese Mandate under the League of Nations, starting in 1918.
