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Of the fourteen other islands, only two, Tinian and Rota have a significant population. The Commonwealth's center of government is located in the village of Capitol Hill on the island of Saipan. As the island is governed as a single municipality, most publications term "Saipan" as the Commonwealth's capital. The southern islands are limestone with level terraces and fringing coral reefs; the northern islands are volcanic, with active volcanoes on Anatahan, Pagan and Agrihan.
The volcano on Agrihan has the highest elevation in the islands at 3, feet m. About one-fifth of the land is arable, another tenth is pasture.
Climate The islands have a tropical marine climate moderated by seasonal northeast trade winds. There is little seasonal temperature variation.
The dry season runs from December to June, and the rainy season from July to November and can include typhoons. The Guinness Book of World Records has cited Saipan as having the most equable or constant temperature in the world. Economy The economy benefits substantially from subsidies and development assistance from the United States government. The economy also relies on tourism, predominately from Japan and Korea. Annual tourist entries which previously exceeded , have significantly dwindled over the past decade.
The agricultural sector is made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts, breadfruit, melons, beans, and tomatoes. History The Mariana Islands were settled by seagoing canoe voyagers more than 3, years ago. Because of linguistic similarities, these people are believed to have originated from the Indo-Malaysian group. A well developed culture is exemplified by the Latte Culture Latte Stones are believed to be house foundations for upper class members of the communities.
The complexity of the latte quarrying and installation some stones weighed several tons and were carried several miles from the quarry to the house site indicated complex and prosperous social systems. The first European exploration of the area was that led by Ferdinand Magellan in , who landed on nearby Guam and claimed the islands for Spain. In , the islands were named by the first Spanish missionary, Fr. The Spanish operation of the islands led to conflict over several decades.
Many of the islands' native population died from violent encounters with the Spanish; many more died from diseases brought by the Spanish. It is believed that there were 50, islanders at the beginning of European contact and only 1, - 2, by the year The remaining islanders, now called Chamorros, intermarried with the Spanish garrisons made up of Mexicans, Filipinos and Spanish troops.
Nearly all of them had been moved to Guam and converted to Catholicism. To facilitate cultural and religious assimilation, Spanish colonists forced the Chamorros to be concentrated on Guam for a period of time.
During this time, a group of Carolinians from present-day eastern Yap State and western Chuuk State were allowed to settle on Saipan and formed the base of the second indigenous ethnic group in the Northern Marianas. Consequently Carolinians and Chamorros are both considered as indigenous to the Northern Marianas and both languages are official in the commonwealth.
The Germans, never more than 20 officials in all of the islands, introduced scientific agriculture and the western concept of land ownership. Japan settled thousands of civilians in the islands 20, in the Northern Marianas alone who were primarily engaged in commercial fishing and sugar cane production. The islands became crucial to the Pacific Theater in World War II and some of the bloodiest battles of the war were fought in the Marianas between American and Japanese troops.
The only atomic weapons ever to be used in warfare were launched by B29s taking off from the island of Tinian in August of After the Japanese surrender in , the American Navy administered the islands until they were turned over to the United Nations as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Under the principles of the Trusteeship Agreement and American administration, the islands gradually regained their rights to self-government and the Northern Marianas chose to become a part of the American political family by popular vote in
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