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Guam

Location S Mariana Islands, in Micronesia, N Pacific Ocean, E of Philippine Islands, S of Japan
Latitude and longitude  13 28 N, 144 47 E
Sovereignty United States of America
Political status notes A territory of the United States of America; officially, "Territory of Guam"
Population  1636,100
Census notes est. July 1, 2004
Land area in square kilometers 541
Capital  Hagåtña (formerly Agana)

Fundamental legal document(s) online

Guam Organic Act
Guam Organic Act and Related Federal Laws Affecting the Governmental Structure of Guam, with annotations on related court decisions and other materials; current through June 11, 2001 (PDF)
Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain, December 10, 1898 (the Treaty of Paris), from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School

Other legal documents online

Guam Code Annotated, from the Attorney General of Guam
Supreme Court decisions, from 1996 on from the Guam Supreme Court (PDF)
Guam Procurement Regulations, from the Office of the Attorney General
Guam War Claims Review Commission, Report on the Implementation of the Guam Meritorious Claims Act of 1945, including Findings and Recommendations (2004), pursuant to the Guam War Claims Review Commission Act, United States Public Law  107-333, from the Office of Guam's Delegate to the United States House of Representative (PDF 1,326K)

Sources and other useful websites

Bank of Hawaii, Economics Research Center, Guam Economic Report (2003) (PDF); and Guam Economic Report (2001) (PDF); these links were not working when Island Law was last updated, although reports prepared in 1999 (PDF 746K), 1997 (PDF 1700K), and 1995 remain available
Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Digital Micronesia: Guam - History, from Professor Dirk H.R. Spennemann
Government of Guam
Guam, map and basic demographic and economic data from the South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit of the University of the South Pacific
Guam,  Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.  
Guam, from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific
Guam, from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk
Guam Economic Development Authority
Guam: Inarajan an exceptionally rich website from Pacific Worlds
Guam Socio-Economic Indicators, from the Government of Guam's Bureau of Planning
The Guam Website
Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific Island Populations 2004 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 78K)
An Update on the Economies of Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, by Wali M. Osman (2004)  (DOC 42K)
U.S. Census Bureau,  2000 Population Counts for Guam (press release)
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook
More ISLAND LAW links for Guam

Selected articles on law and political status

Guam’s Future Political Status: An Argument for Free Association with U.S. Citizenship, by Hannah M.T. Gutierrez, in volume 4 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page 56 (February 2003) (PDF 256K)
Guam's Quest for Political Identity, by Robert F. Rogers, in volume 12 of the Journal of Pacific Studies, at page 49 (November 1988) (PDF 66K) 
"Respeta I Taotao Tano": The Recognition and Establishment of the Self-Determination and Sovereign Rights of the Indigenous Chamorros of Guam Under International, Federal, and Local Law, by Anthony T.J. Quan, in volume 3 of the Asia-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, at page 56 (February 2002) (PDF 763K)
Second-Class Citizens: The Separate and Unequal Treatment of Our Far-Flung Territories, by Chris Mooney, in Legal Affairs (July-August 2003)
United Nations Secretariat, Working Paper on Guam, prepared for the Special Committee of the U.N. General Assembly on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (A/AC.109/2004/5, March 12, 2004) (PDF)

Selected Bibliography on Guam

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