    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Statistical Data]
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    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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          2000 census      miles
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    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico............  July 25, 1952..................       3,808,610       3,421  Ceded to United States by Spain by the Treaty of
                                                                                                           Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. The constitution of the
                                                                                                           Commonwealth was approved July 3, 1952.
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    Guam...................................  Aug. 1, 1950...................         154,805         209  Ceded to the United States by Spain by the Treaty
                                                                                                           of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898.
    American Samoa.........................        (\1\)                              57,291          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..................         108,612         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...................          69,221         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 (Pub.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.

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