[United States Senate Manual, 106th Congress]
[S. Doc. 106-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Page 1131]
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                            COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, THE INSULAR POSSESSIONS, AND TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
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                                                                                            Area in
           Insular possession                Date of establishment of       Population,     square                        Acquisition
                                                insular government          1990 census      miles
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Commonwealth of Puerto Rico............  July 25, 1952..................       3,522,037       3,421  Ceded to United States by Spain by Treaty of
                                                                                                       Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. The constitution of the
                                                                                                       Commonwealth was approved July 3, 1952.
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Guam...................................  Aug. 1, 1950...................         133,152         209  Ceded to the United States by Spain by Treaty of
                                                                                                       Paris, Dec. 10, 1898.
American Samoa.........................        (\1\)                              46,773          77  Acquired by the United States Feb. 16, 1900, under
                                                                                                       terms of tripartite treaty Dec. 2, 1899. Full
                                                                                                       sovereignty accepted from native chiefs by United
                                                                                                       States Feb. 20, 1929.
Virgin Islands.........................  June 22, 1936..................         101,809         132  By purchase from Denmark, Mar. 3, 1917, for
                                                                                                       $25,000,000. The Revised Organic Act of 1954 is
                                                                                                       the basis for the present territorial government.
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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.        (\1\) (\2\)                ..............  ..........  Occupied during World War II. Placed under the
                                                                                                       United Nations Trusteeship system in 1947 by
                                                                                                       agreement with the Security Council of the United
                                                                                                       Nations.
Northern Mariana Islands...............  Jan. 9, 1978...................          43,345         184  Concluded future political status negotiations in
                                                                                                       1975 which will establish a commonwealth
                                                                                                       relationship with the U.S. at termination of the
                                                                                                       trusteeship. Covenant providing this relationship
                                                                                                       passed by Congress in March 1976 (P.L. 94-241).
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\1\ Administered under jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, with a locally drafted constitution and elected governor and legislature.
\2\ As of November 3, 1986 the Marshall Islands and the Federal States of Micronesia became freely associated states. The 1990 population of the
  remaining territory, the Republic of Palau, was 15,122.