Guam (ˈɡwɑːm; Chamorro

Chamorro language

Chamorro is a Malayo-Polynesian language, spoken on the Mariana Islands by about 47,000 people Chamorro (Chamorro: Fino' Chamoru or simply Chamoru) is a Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) language, spoken on the Mariana Islands (Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan) by about 47,000 people Chamorro...

: ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States

United States

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 located in the western Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories

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 by the Special Committee on Decolonization

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 of the United Nations

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. The island's capital is Hagåtña

Hagåtña, Guam

Hagåtña , formerly English Agana and in Spanish Agaña, is the capital of the United States island territory of Guam. It is the island's second smallest village in both area and population. From the 18th through mid 20th century, it was Guam's population center...

 (formerly Agaña). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands

Mariana Islands

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.

The Chamorros, Guam's indigenous

Indigenous

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 people, first populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago.