[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress] [S. Doc. 107-1] [Statistical Data] [Page 1162] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov] [[Page 1162]] [1473] COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, THE INSULAR POSSESSIONS, AND TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area in Insular possession Date of establishment of Population, square Acquisition insular government 2000 census miles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico............ July 25, 1952.................. 3,808,610 3,421 Ceded to United States by Spain by the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. The constitution of the Commonwealth was approved July 3, 1952. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guam................................... Aug. 1, 1950................... 154,805 209 Ceded to the United States by Spain by the Treaty of Paris, Dec. 10, 1898. American Samoa......................... (\1\) 57,291 77 Acquired by the United States Feb. 16, 1900, under terms of Tripartite Treaty Dec. 2, 1899. Full sovereignty accepted from native chiefs by United States Feb. 20, 1929. Virgin Islands......................... June 22, 1936.................. 108,612 132 By purchase from Denmark, Mar. 3, 1917, for $25,000,000. The Revised Organic Act of 1954 is the basis for the present territorial government. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (\1\) (\2\) .............. .......... Occupied during World War II. Placed under the United Nations Trusteeship system in 1947 by agreement with the Security Council of the United Nations. Northern Mariana Islands............... Jan. 9, 1978................... 69,221 184 Concluded future political status negotiations in 1975 which will establish a commonwealth relationship with the U.S. at termination of the trusteeship. Covenant providing this relationship passed by Congress in March 1976 (P.L. 94-241). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Administered under jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, with a locally drafted constitution and elected governor and legislature. \2\ As of November 3, 1986 the Marshall Islands and the Federal States of Micronesia became freely associated states. The 1990 population of the remaining territory, the Republic of Palau, was 15,122. apportionments of representatives