USA NORTHERN MARIANA Isl.

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of fifteen islands about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines . The United States Census Bureau reports the total land area of all islands as 179.01 square miles (463.63 km2).