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This text is © 1994-96 by Bo Arnholm. It is part of the AmigaWorld software which is © 1993-96 by Wolfgang Lug. It is prohibited by law to include this file in any other software package without the author's written permission.
|BNorthern Marianas|N
|RConstitution:|N Commonwealth in union with the USA. The population are US citizens.
|RNature:|N 16 mountainous islands of which six are inhabited.
|RPeople:|N Majority Chamorro, the remainder Carolinians and other Micronesians.
|REconomy:|N Tourism, light industry and handicrafts are he main industries.
Tourism accounts for about 40% of the GDP.
|RHistory:|N Inhabited by Pacific argonauts 1500 BC, the Northern Marianas in 1521 AD was visited by Ferdinand Magellan.
It was made a Spanish colony in 1565 and sold to Germany 1898.
After World War I a Japanese mandate territory of the League of Nations and after World War II a US mandatory under UN.
The Northern Marianas has been selfgoverning since 1978 and an independent commonwealth in political union with the USA since 1986.