* Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands

** Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Pohnpei ( then including Kusaie ), Truk, Yap, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands, together constituted the TTPI.

The neighboring trust districts of Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands chose not to participate.

There is a significant movement in favor of the Territory becoming a commonwealth, which would give it a political status similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Competing movements exist, which advocate political independence from the United States, statehood, or a combination with the Northern Mariana Islands as a single territory ( not necessarily commonwealth ).

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

* Commonwealth Day ( Northern Mariana Islands )

These exceptions include the Northern Mariana Islands which is a commonwealth in political union with the United States with the status of unincorporated organized territory.

The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own governor to serve as territorial head of government, but it remains a U. S. territory with its head of state being the President of the United States and federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior.

* Germany, which took Nauru and bought the Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands from Spain ; and

Today, most of Micronesia are independent states, except for Guam and Wake Island, which are U. S. territories, and for the Northern Mariana Islands, which are a U. S. commonwealth.

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ), is one of the two insular area Commonwealths of the United States of America, the other being Puerto Rico.

The Northern Mariana Islands have a population of 53, 883 ( 2010 census ).

The Northern Mariana Islands, together with Guam to the south, compose the Mariana Islands.

Map of the Northern Mariana Islands.

The first people of the Northern Mariana Islands navigated to the islands circa 2000 BC from Southeast Asia.

The people of the Northern Mariana Islands decided in the 1970s not to seek independence, but instead to forge closer links with the United States.

This article is about the geography of the Northern Mariana Islands.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

The Cook Islands can be divided into two groups: the Southern Cook Islands and the Northern Cook Islands.

The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about half-way between Iceland and Norway.

Most are native to the Northern Hemisphere, but one subfamily is endemic to the Neotropics, one to the Hawaiian Islands, and one subfamily – monotypic at genus level – is found only in the Palaearctic.

:* The southern maritime boundary of Guam forms a border with the Federated States of Micronesia, and the northern maritime boundary forms a border with the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

Regional climatic variations range from humid continental in the northern island of Hokkaido extending down through Northern Japan to the Central Highland, then blending with and eventually changing to a humid subtropical climate on the Pacific Coast and ultimately bordering very closely with a tropical climate on the Ryukyu Islands.

Japan has territorial disputes with Russia over the Kuril Islands ( Northern Territories ), with South Korea over Liancourt Rocks ( known as " Dokdo " in Korea, " Takeshima " in Japan ), with China and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands and with China over the status of Okinotorishima.

It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and lies northwest of the next closest island ( Palmyra Atoll ), and south of Honolulu.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

Bloody Sunday ()— sometimes called the Bogside Massacre — was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

Ancient dry riverbeds — called omuramba — traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season.

It took the combined effort and interest of conservationists, politicians and especially businesses — namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through Montana would greatly benefit by the creation of this new tourist attraction — to ensure the passage of that landmark enabling legislation by the United States Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator — the word hemisphere literally means “ half sphere ”.

The first of these eroded extensions stretching westward of the Paraná Plateau — the Northern Upland — occupies the portion northward from the Aquidabán River ( Río Aquidabán ) to the Apa River on the Brazilian border.

Several senior judges — Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the highest court in Scotland )— are also named to the Privy Council.

* 1930 — 18, 057, 028 ( 14, 280, 729 is without Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina )

* Northern Indiana Toll Road — $ 1, 790, 000 per mile

Charles Taylor — then leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia — reportedly helped form the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) under the command of former Sierra Leonean army corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh, an ethnic Temne from Tonkolili District in Northern Sierra Leone.

The Alps — including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the Karavanke chain, as well as the Pohorje massif — dominate Northern Slovenia along its long border to Austria.

In general, Northern Vietnamese cuisine is not bold in any particular flavor — sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, or sour.

Before 1972, Zambia had three significant political parties — UNIP, the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, and the United Progressive Party ( UPP ).

* Horse collar in use in Northern Europe in 8th or 9th century — perhaps introduced from Asia.

The Northern state will have three competing dynasties — Northern Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Liang, while the Southern state is dominated by the Song ( or Liu Song ) Dynasty.