Map of United States Minor Outlying Islands

Open United States Minor Outlying Islands on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.

Facts

As the source states them, in the source’s own words.

Area34 km²
CurrencyUSD (United States dollar)
LanguagesEnglish

Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.

Historical maps

IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that United States Minor Outlying Islands existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.

Map of Oceania Map of Central America and the Caribbean

Dated events in this outline

Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of United States Minor Outlying Islands. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.

  1. 1941

    Wake Island holds out for fifteen days and beats off the first landing

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    8 December →
  2. 1942

    Battle of Midway

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    4 June →
  3. 1950

    Wake Island Conference

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    15 October →
  4. 1969

    At Midway, Nixon and Thiệu announce the first American withdrawal: Vietnamization begins

    Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record

    8 June →

Open data about United States Minor Outlying Islands

The datasets IntMap may share about United States Minor Outlying Islands, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/UMI.json

airports

Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

country-facts

ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0

What this page states

The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.

A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.

An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.

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