Guam
Guam is a 543-square-kilometre island in the Pacific Ocean. It is in the geographic Marianas Islands of Micronesia but is not part of the political Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. It is currently an unincorporated territory of the United States, who seized it from Spain during the Spanish American War.
Guam is a major forward deployment base for U.S. military forces, including heavy bombers normally based in the U.S. and prepositioning ships for U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force use. The major installation is Anderson Air Force base.
Location
About three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines, at the geographic coordinates: 13 28 N, 144 47 E
Map references: Oceania
Area
Area:
- total: 541.3 sq km
- land: 541.3 sq km
- water: 0 sq km
Area—comparative: three times the size of Washington, DC