What is Saipan?
[[Image:saipan.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Saipan seen from the air]] '''Saipan''' ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IPA|[saɪ'pæn], [saɪ'pɑn], or ['saɪpæn]}} in English) is the largest [[island]] and [[Capital (city)|capital]] of the [[United States]] [[Northern Mariana Islands|Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands]] (CNMI), a chain of 15 [[tropical]] islands which are part of the [[Marianas]] [[archipelago]] in the western [[Pacific Ocean]] (15°10’51”N, 145°45’21”E) with a total area of [[1 E8 m²|115.39 km² (44.55 sq mi)]]. At the [[United States 2000 census|2000 census]], there were more than 62,392 people.<ref>[https://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01cn173.html Census Bureau Releases, Census 2000 Population Counts for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands], [[July 3]], [[2001]].</ref> Saipan is at [[latitude]] of 15.25° north and [[longitude]] of 145.75° east, about 200&nbsp;km (120&nbsp;mi) north of [[Guam]]. Saipan is about 20&nbsp;km (12.5&nbsp;mi) long and 9&nbsp;km (5.5&nbsp;mi) wide. It is a popular tourist destination in the Pacific. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-show_geoid=Y&-tree_id=405&-_caller=geoselect&-context=dt&-errMsg=&-all_geo_types=N&-mt_name=DEC_2000_IAMP_P001&-redoLog=false&-transpose=N&-search_map_config=|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=0.9528487917191559|dh=0.6838460131961157|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-67.48042614595042|cy=18.385966173167105|zl=6|pz=6|bo=318:317:316:314:313:323:319|bl=362:393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=381:403:204:380:369:379:368|g=04000US72&-PANEL_ID=p_dt_geo_map&-_lang=en&-geo_id=05000US69110&-CONTEXT=dt&-format=&-search_results=ALL&-ds_name=DEC_2000_IAMP Saipan Municipality, United States Census Bureau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204155306/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-show_geoid=Y&-tree_id=405&-_caller=geoselect&-context=dt&-errMsg=&-all_geo_types=N&-mt_nam