{"id":24515,"date":"2024-06-26T03:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:35:49","slug":"saipan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saipan-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Saipan Island:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>Western Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the capital of the <strong>Northern Mariana Islands<\/strong> (NMI), a US commonwealth in the western Pacific which beginsroughly 70 km (44 miles) north of Guam and stretches across 14 islands.<\/li>\n<li>It was a colony of <strong>Spain, Germany and then Japan<\/strong>, the <strong>United States took control<\/strong> of the island in World War Two.<\/li>\n<li>Like territories such as Guam or Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands are part of the US <strong>without the full status of a state.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In 1975 residents of this island voted to join the United States as a territory. The territory has a permanent delegate in the US House of Representative, although they cannot vote.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Highest point:<\/strong> Mount Tapochau<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economy:<\/strong> Tourism is the mainstay of the economy and it is popular with Korean and Chinese tourists.<\/li>\n<li>It is the only part of the United States that <strong>Chinese citizens can enter without a visa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Island?<\/h3>\n<p>Any area of land smaller than a continent and entirely surrounded by water is called an Island. Islands may occur in oceans, seas, lakes, or rivers. A group of islands is called an archipelago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/julian-assange-saipan-us-deal-plead-guilty-explained-9413605\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why is Julian Assange flying to the remote Pacific island of Saipan?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Island is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), a US commonwealth in the western Pacific which begins roughly 70 km (44 miles) north of Guam and stretches across 14 islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}