Mariana Islands facts

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America Samoa is the only place in the United States where U.S. citizenship is not granted at birth. Anyone born in the 50 states, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—automatically becomes a citizen, but not Am Samoa.

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Countries that are considered to make up the basin of the Philippine Sea include Taiwan, Philippines, Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Japan, Indonesia, Guam, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

What are the northern mariana islands?

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1. The deepest known part of the world's oceans is Mariana Trench, which is located east of the Mariana Islands. It is around 11,000 meters deep at its deepest point.

2. Some of the islands found in the Philippine Sea include Bonin Islands, Dinagat Islands, Guam, Honshu, Luzon, Mariana Islands, Polillo Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Saipan, Taiwan, Ulithi, and Yap.

3. Directly after winning the OJ Simpson case, Johnnie Cochran tried to insert himself in a $600 million paternity trial in the Marianas Islands but gave up after the lead attorney refused to meet him.

4. Ancient Chamorros had different numbering systems for animate and inanimate objects"--Chamorros are the indigenous people of Guam, USA and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, USA--"[t]he contemporary Chamorro numbering system does not...and has been adapted from the Spanish language."

5. in 2016 Iran's GDP per capita grew 12%, second biggest increase in the world after Mariana islands

6. The Territories of the USA (Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin Islands & Northern Mariana Islands) are "the only spots in the whole universe" where Americans are not allowed to vote for the next president.

7. In the US territory of the Northern Mariana islands, it is still illegal to own land based on race

8. The Northern Mariana Islands has US Democratic and Republican presidential primaries, even though they don't get to vote in the general elecation

9. Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Virgin Islands are United States territories and people born in those areas are natural-born United States citizens

10. About 60% of the bodies of Japanese soldiers recovered in the Mariana Islands and returned to Japan lacked skulls, this due to Human Trophy Collecting.