What are the United States Minor Outlying Islands?
Q: What are the United States Minor Outlying Islands?
A: The United States Minor Outlying Islands are nine island territories of the United States, including Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean; and Navassa Island in the Caribbean Sea.
Q: Are these islands administered together?
A: No, they are not administered together. They are grouped together for statistical reasons only.
Q: Is there a permanent human population on any of these islands?
A: As of 2008, none of the islands have any people living there permanently. The only human population consists of temporarily stationed scientific and military personnel.
Q: How many people were counted on Johnston Atoll during the 2000 census?
A: During the 2000 census 315 people were counted on Johnston Atoll.
Q: Was there ever an indigenous population on any of these islands?
A: There has been no modern indigenous population except at the 1940 census. In 1936 a colonization scheme began to settle Americans on Baker, Howland and Jarvis but all three islands were evacuated in 1942 because of World War II.
Q: What is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for all these islands collectively?
A: All these islands are collectively represented by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. From 1974 until 1986 five of them (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll and Kingman Reef) were grouped under the term "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands" with ISO 3166 code PU while Midway Atoll was MI , Johnston Atoll was JT , and Wake Island was WK .
Q: Are these island surrounded by large Exclusive Economic Zones?
A Yes they are surrounded by large Exclusive Economic Zones
