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Guam
The westernmost U.S. territory, "Where America's Day Begins"
Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the westernmost territory of the United States, lying in the western Pacific some 1,500 miles east of the Philippines - so far west across the International Date Line that it markets itself as "Where America's Day Begins." A Spanish possession ceded to the U.S. in 1898, it is an unincorporated territory whose indigenous people are the Chamorro.
Strategically vital, Guam hosts major U.S. Navy and Air Force installations that occupy much of the island and anchor its economy alongside tourism drawn heavily from Japan and South Korea. A raised coral-limestone plateau in the north and volcanic hills in the south give it a tropical, typhoon-prone landscape ringed by reefs. Its roughly 154,000 residents are U.S. citizens who, like other territory residents, have no vote for president.