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Guam is the southernmost island in the Mariana Islands chain. The Chamorro people and their language are indigenous throughout the archipelago. Location and Geography. Guam, the largest island in Micronesia, is fifteen hundred miles southeast of Tokyo and six thousand miles west of San Francisco. It has an area of 212 square miles, (550 square kilometers). A high limestone plateau forms the northern regions.
In 1898 following the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded Guam along with Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the U.S. Under the Peace Treaty of Paris, Guam's political status would be determined by Congress.