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In spring 2020, the United States Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt was on deployment in the Pacific. The ship docked in Guam on 7 February 2020, [3] [4] when a cruise ship was denied entry to Guam for fears of the virus.
While there are no large cities in Guam, the populace resides in villages. [2] The most populated village in Guam is Dededo, with a population of 44,943 in 2010. [1] The Indigenous people of Guam are known as the Chamorro people, and are the largest ethnic group in Guam.
Hagåtña, [a] formerly Agana or Agaña, [b] is a coastal village and the capital [3] of the United States territory of Guam.From the 18th through mid-20th century, it was Guam's population center, but today, it is the second smallest of the island's 19 villages in both area and population.
Government of Guam: Guam Crash Site Center – Korean Air Flight 801, photographs, passenger manifest, scanned news articles, and related links; PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer: "Tragedy on Guam," August 6, 1997 "List of passengers aboard Korean Air Flight 801" (also lists crew members) CNN; Airline's List Of Survivors," The New York Times. August ...
The culture is now strongly influenced by American customs and values, largely because the Marianas archipelago (partitioned into Guam and the CNMI) is currently possessed by the United States of America, as organized but unincorporated territories; in addition, most people of Chamorro descent now live outside of the Marianas in the United States.
Typhoon Mawar, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Betty, was one of the strongest Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclones on record in the month of May, and the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2023. [1]
Photo District News (or PDN) was an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers, published from 1980 to January 2020. The publication took its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District .
Saipan [2] (/ s aɪ ˈ p æ n /) is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.According to 2020 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the population of Saipan was 43,385. [3]