By law this is 75% for the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

By law this is 70% for the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.

The closest land to the Challenger Deep is Fais Island ( one of the outer islands of Yap ), southwest, and Guam, to the northeast.

It is located in the ocean territory of the Federated States of Micronesia, from its border with ocean territory associated with Guam.

Fahrenheit is used in the United States, Belize, and the United States territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the U. S. Virgin Islands for everyday applications.

Chief Gadao is featured in many legends about Guam before European colonization.

It is believed that Guam was first discovered by seafaring people who migrated from Southeast Asia around 4000 BC.

This is a list of the extreme points of Guam, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Guam, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Politics of Guam takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic system, whereby the Governor is head of government, and of a multi-party system.

The economy of Guam is greatly dependent on the U. S. military bases there.

Perceived indifference by the U. S. Congress regarding a change-of-status petition submitted by Guam has led many to feel that the territory is being deprived of the benefits of a more equitable union with the United States.

Though Guam is a United States territory, some U. S. long distance plans and courier services list Guam as an international location.

However, if an item is shipped via USPS, shipping costs to Guam are the same as coast-to-coast shipping costs within the US.

Much of the mail to and from Guam routes through Hawaii and awaits cargo space on Continental Airlines which is contracted to deliver mail between Hawaii and Guam.

Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.

Koror is the former capital and the present capital is Melekeok on the bigger but less developed island of Babeldaob -- the second-largest island in Micronesia after Guam.

Wake Island (; also known as Wake Atoll ) is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way between Honolulu, to the east and Guam, to the west.

* January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam ; he had spent 28 years in the jungle.

Taco Bell is also present in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guam, Aruba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and on AAFES military bases in Japan, Germany, Iraq, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

The Air National Guard ( ANG ), often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U. S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States.

Incorporation of properties from six former regional May Company divisions began in February 2006, when existing Macy's stores and properties yet to be converted were then organized into seven divisions with store locations in 45 states, Washington, D. C., Puerto Rico and Guam.

:* Guam ( GU ) ( organized under Organic Act of 1950 )

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States, Canada, French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Bermuda, the US territories in the Pacific of Guam, Wake Island, Northern Mariana Islands and three states in free association with the United States-Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia-is officially organized as the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

The modern culture is strongly influenced by American customs and values, partly because the Marianas ( Guam and the CNMI have different political standings ) are currently under the possession of the United States of America, as organized but unincorporated territories ; in addition, persons of Chamorro descent live in several states, mentioned in the introduction at the beginning, and as such are also influenced by the American culture.

On August 10, after 3 long weeks of bloody and ferocious fighting, organized Japanese resistance ended, and Guam was declared secure.

Since then, Epsilon Sigma Alpha chapters have been organized in Germany, Guam, Denmark, Peru, Australia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Scotland.

From 21 July 1944 until the last day of organized fighting on 10 August, the division fought through the jungles on the island of Guam.

On the 20th, Tropical Depression 25W organized out of this mass and was located just 35 miles southeast of Guam.

However, neither fate seems likely to occur in the foreseeable future to the five remaining major unincorporated U. S. insular areas: American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.

Under the same, the Constitution only applied fully in incorporated territories such as Alaska and Hawaii, whereas it only applied partially in the new unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.

Under the same, the Constitution only applied fully in incorporated territories such as Alaska and Hawaii, whereas it only applied partially in the new unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.

However, the Court in these cases also established the doctrine of territorial incorporation, under which the Constitution applies fully only in incorporated territories such as Alaska and Hawaii, and applies only partially in the new unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.

* Finally, the Guam Organic Act of 1950, transferred Guam to the United States Department of the Interior as an unincorporated territory.

Under the same, the Constitution applied fully only in incorporated territories such as Alaska and Hawaii, whereas it applied only partially in the new unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.

) is a United States federal law that redesignated the island of Guam as an unincorporated territory of the United States, established executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and transferred Federal jurisdiction from the United States Navy to the Department of the Interior.

Guam, as an unincorporated territory, was also granted, among other things, some leeway in establishing its judicial branch.

This article describes the geography of the United States territory of Guam.

In the United States territory of Guam, Asians, mostly Filipinos, with smaller numbers of Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese, are the largest minority group.

The United States territory of Guam has no railways, nor does it have a merchant marine.

The United States Navy controlled the TTPI from a headquarters in Guam until 1951, when the United States Department of the Interior took over control, administering the territory from a base in Saipan.

* June 21 – Spanish – American War: The United States captures Guam making it the first U. S. overseas territory.

* Asan, Guam, a village located on the western shore of the U. S. territory of Guam

When National Guard units are not under federal control, the governor is the commander-in-chief of the units of his or her respective state, territory ( Guam, Virgin Islands ), or commonwealth ( Puerto Rico ).

* Index of Guam-related articles-Territory of Guam ( US overseas territory )

Won Pat International Airport on Guam, a U. S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean.

It is also available in the US Pacific territory of Guam on MCV Broadband cable service and GTA TeleGuam's IPTV service, the only territory outside North America where the channel is available.

Won Pat International Airport, also known as Guam International Airport, is an airport located in Tamuning and Barrigada, three miles east of the capital city of Hagåtña ( formerly Agana ) in the United States territory of Guam.

Hagåtña ( pronounced ), formerly English Agana and in Spanish Agaña, is the capital of the United States territory of Guam.

In June 2009, Meiko hit the road with Eric Hutchinson, and in July 2009, she performed a string of shows in the UK before playing in the United States territory of Guam.

Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo ( born May 31, 1933 ) is the Delegate from the United States territory of Guam to the United States House of Representatives.

They form the northern part of the western Pacific subregion of Micronesia, and are composed of two U. S. jurisdictions: the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and, at the southern end of the chain of islands, the territory of Guam.