Guam (/ˈɡwɑːm/ GWAHM; Chamorro: Guåhan [ˈɡʷɑhɑn]) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western...
111 KB (10,460 words) - 15:58, 15 December 2024
The GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development is a regional organization of four post-Soviet states: Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova...
24 KB (1,974 words) - 19:56, 1 December 2024
The Legislature of Guam (Chamorro: Lehislaturan Guåhan) is the law-making body for the United States territory of Guam. The unicameral legislative branch...
16 KB (589 words) - 05:03, 18 December 2024
the capital 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...
22 KB (1,704 words) - 05:32, 20 November 2024
The United States territory of Guam is divided into nineteen municipalities, called villages. Each village is governed by an elected mayor. Village populations...
8 KB (440 words) - 17:42, 19 February 2024
The Guam national football team represents Guam, an overseas territory of the United States, in international football and is controlled by the Guam Football...
43 KB (1,346 words) - 01:29, 20 December 2024
Guam High School (GHS or GMHS) is a U.S. military operated secondary school located at 401 Stitt Street in Agana Heights in the United States territory...
6 KB (445 words) - 09:20, 4 December 2024
The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), called sihek in Chamorro, is a species of kingfisher from the United States Territory of Guam. It is restricted...
15 KB (1,458 words) - 03:18, 18 November 2024
Because it is a U.S. territory instead of a U.S. state, voters in Guam are ineligible to elect members of the Electoral College, who would then cast direct...
14 KB (431 words) - 22:45, 6 November 2024
Guam's at-large congressional district comprises the entire area of the United States territory of Guam. Guam has been represented in the United States...
35 KB (273 words) - 21:32, 9 December 2024
General elections were held in Guam on November 5, 2024. Voters in Guam chose their non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives,...
5 KB (102 words) - 21:57, 29 November 2024
The United States territory of Guam has no railways or freeways, nor does it have a merchant marine. The largest port is Apra Harbor, which serves almost...
2 KB (208 words) - 01:42, 16 July 2024
The Guam flycatcher (Myiagra freycineti), or Guam broadbill, is an extinct species of bird in the family Monarchidae formerly endemic to Guam. Some authorities...
4 KB (333 words) - 15:21, 18 November 2024
Battle of Guam may refer to: The Battle of Guam (1941), a World War II battle in which Japanese forces took the island from the Americans in December...
441 bytes (105 words) - 19:23, 6 April 2013
The demographics of Guam details an array of demographic statistics relating to the territory of Guam. This includes statistics on population, including...
24 KB (2,193 words) - 20:09, 17 October 2024
The history of Guam starts with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorro Peoples. The Chamorus then developed...
53 KB (6,053 words) - 10:08, 10 December 2024
Barrigada (Chamorro: Barigåda) is a village in the United States territory of Guam. A largely residential municipality, its main village is located south of...
16 KB (1,262 words) - 23:08, 9 November 2024
The 2024 United States presidential straw poll in Guam took place on November 5, 2024. Guam is a territory and not a state, making it ineligible to elect...
7 KB (354 words) - 06:52, 13 December 2024
The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured...
27 KB (2,678 words) - 20:25, 20 December 2024
Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor and occupying the Orote Peninsula. In 2009, it was combined with Andersen Air Force...
9 KB (826 words) - 03:25, 30 November 2024
Chamorro Time Zone (redirect from Guam Time Zone)
The Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, is a United States time zone which observes standard time ten hours ahead of Coordinated Universal...
4 KB (549 words) - 08:40, 12 November 2024
of citizens in Guam differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Guam is entitled to...
6 KB (714 words) - 23:00, 11 November 2024
Guam. Fort Juan Muña, in Harmon, is a facility for the Guam Army National Guard. The present and former locations of Guam Memorial Hospital, Guam's only...
20 KB (1,343 words) - 13:38, 20 December 2024
The Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place from 8 December to 10 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana...
21 KB (2,387 words) - 22:25, 1 November 2024
The flag of Guam was adopted on February 9, 1948. The territorial flag is a dark blue field with a narrow red border on all sides. The red border – a later...
6 KB (522 words) - 06:02, 24 November 2024
USS Guam may refer to: USS Guam (PG-43) was a river gunboat in China, renamed Wake in January 1941 and captured by the Japanese in December USS Guam (CB-2)...
558 bytes (118 words) - 13:49, 1 March 2023
Guam is a U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean, at the boundary of the Philippine Sea. It is the southernmost and largest member of the Mariana...
26 KB (2,637 words) - 23:46, 17 October 2024
Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport (redirect from Guam International Airport)
B. Won Pat International Airport (IATA: GUM, ICAO: PGUM) — also known as Guam International Airport — is an international airport located in Tamuning and...
35 KB (2,835 words) - 11:43, 13 December 2024
The Seal of Guam appears in the middle of the flag of the United States territory of Guam. It depicts Agaña Bay near Hagåtña, a local proa and a coconut...
4 KB (373 words) - 22:20, 31 October 2024
Guam elects on the territorial level a governor and a legislature with the governor elected for a four-year term by the people. The Legislature of Guam...
5 KB (482 words) - 21:45, 10 June 2024