Northern Mariana Islands faces financial crisis . By Robert Slavin. CloseText. About Robert. twitter. ... The islands' population of 47,300 in 2020 was 12% less than its 2010 level.

The Northern Mariana Islands, a stretch of 14 islands in a 300-mile archipelago that starts north of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean, has been a commonwealth of the United States since 1978. It ...

Despite this, the Chamorro population did gradually resurge, and Chamorro, Filipino and Carolinian language and ethnic differences remain basically distinct in the Marianas to this day.

Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent. The endangered Mariana Crow, known as "Aga" in Chamorro, is showing strong signs of recovery, with 70 breeding pairs ...

Super Typhoon Yutu came ashore in the Northern Mariana Islands last night, ... With a population of 54,000, the Marianas lie about 600 miles east of the Philippines.

There are 14 islands in the Northern Mariana Islands chain, which runs roughly north-south for around 600 kilometres. They are dotted with active volcanoes and typhoon season runs from July to ...

It's the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)—a tiny Pacific territory with a population of just over 50,000. Under the new law signed by Gov. Ralph Torres (R), ...

The Mariana Islands include the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Territory of Guam, ... The Pacific sheath-tailed bat is down to a single population in the Mariana Islands: a ...

The vast majority of the population resides on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota islands. The other main island, Aguigan (Pagan Island), is barely inhabited at all since a 1981 volcanic eruption. Consequently, ...