Guam is located in the Pacific Ocean. It is north of Port Moresby, Australia and southwest of Hawaii. It is approximately 30 miles long and 12 miles wide.
Time: GMT plus 10 hours. Guam lies west of International Dateline and is consequently 1
day ahead of Hawaii and Continental U.S.
Territorial Bird: Totot (Marianas Fruit Dove)
Territorial Tree: Ifit (genus:Intsia species:bijuga) dense reddish hardwood
Territorial Flower: Puti Tai Nobiu (Bougainvillea)
Comparative Area: More than three times the size of Washington, DC
Guam, People: Population: 149,620 (July 1994 est.)
Population growth rate: 2.48% (1994 est.)
Birth rate: 25.66 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Death rate: 3.86 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Net migration rate: 3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 15.17 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total population: 74.29 years
Male: 72.42 years
Female: 76.13 years (1994 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.39 children born/woman (1994 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Guamanian(s)
adjective: Guamanian
Ethnic divisions: Chamorro 47%, Filipino 25%, Caucasian 10%, Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and other 18%
Religions: Roman Catholic 98%, other 2%
Languages: English, Chamorro, Japanese
Literacy: Age 15 and over can read and write
Guam, Government
Names: Conventional long form: Territory of Guam
Conventional short form: Guam
Digraph: GQ
Type: organized, unincorporated territory of the US with policy relations between Guam
and the US under the jurisdiction of the Office of Territorial and International Affairs, US
Department of the Interior
Capital: Agana
Administrative divisions: none (territory of the US)
Independence: none (territory of the US)
National holiday:
Guam Discovery Day (first Monday in March) (1521)
Liberation Day, 21 July
Constitution: Organic Act of 1 August 1950
Legal system: modeled on US; federal laws apply
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal; US citizens, but do not vote in US presidential
elections
Economic aid:
although Guam receives no foreign aid, it does receive large transfer payments from the
general revenues of the US Federal Treasury. Under the provisions of a special law of
Congress to ameliorate the federal employee impact to the island infrastructure and
schools, the Guamanian Treasury receives federal income taxes paid by military and
civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam. Guam residents pay taxes mirroring US
federal tax codes which is returned by the US back to the Guam Treasury (taxes cannot
be levied without representation). Since Guam is not a state, U.S. citizens taking
residency on the island cannot vote for the US president nor have voting representation in
Congress.
Currency:
1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: US currency is used
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