Guam

Guam is an island in the western Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from to the . An unincorporated territory of the United States of America, Guam gets most of its visitors from , especially .
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is the capital of Guam. It is the island's second smallest village in both area and population. is the seat of local government and one of the island's major commercial districts.

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is the most populated village in the of Guam. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 's population was just under 45,000 in 2020.

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, also known as Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon, is a village located on the western shore of the territory of Guam. The village of is the economic center of Guam, containing tourist center Tumon, Harmon Industrial Park, and other commercial districts.

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is a village on the eastern shore of the territory of Guam. The village's population has decreased slightly since the island's 2010 census.

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Talo'fo'fo, formerly , is a village located in the southern part of the territory of Guam, on the east coast. The village center is located in the hills above the coast, while the smaller coastal community below the cliff is known as Ipan.

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is a census-designated place located on Bay along the northwest coast of the unincorporated territory of Guam. Located in the village of Tamuning, it is the center of Guam's tourist industry.

Guam

Latitude of center
13.4537° or 13° 27′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
144.7751° or 144° 46′ 30″ east
Population
185,000
Area
212 miles² (549 km²)
Elevation
1,332 feet (406 metres)
Capital
Hagatna
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
.gu
Internet domain
+1-671
Abbreviation
“GU”
IATA airport code
GUM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 607976629
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4043988
Wiki­data ID
Q16635
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Guam” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guam”
  • Afrikaans: “Guam”
  • Akan: “Guam”
  • Albanian: “Guam”
  • Amharic: “ጉዋም”
  • Amharic: “ጓም”
  • Amis: “Guam”
  • Angika: “गुआम”
  • Arabic: “غوام”
  • Aragonese: “Guam”
  • Armenian: “Գուամ”
  • Arpitan: “Goam”
  • Assamese: “গুৱাম”
  • Asturian: “Guam”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quam”
  • Balinese: “Guam”
  • Bambara: “Gwam”
  • Bashkir: “Гуам”
  • Basque: “Guam”
  • Bavarian: “Guam”
  • Belarusian: “Гуам”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াম”
  • Bengali: “গুয়ামের অঞ্চল”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুৱাম”
  • Bosnian: “Guam”
  • Breton: “Guam”
  • Breton: “Tiriad Guam”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуам”
  • Burmese: “ဂူအမ်”
  • Burmese: “ဂူအမ်ကျွန်း”
  • Capiznon: “Guaján”
  • Capiznon: “Guwahan”
  • Catalan: “Guam”
  • Cebuano: “Guaján”
  • Cebuano: “Guam Island”
  • Cebuano: “Guwahan”
  • Central Bikol: “Guaján”
  • Central Bikol: “Guam”
  • Central Bikol: “Guwahan”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوام”
  • Chamorro: “Guåhan”
  • Chamorro: “Guahan” (historical)
  • Chamorro: “Islan Guåhan”
  • Chavacano: “Guaján”
  • Chechen: “Гуам”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎻ”
  • Cheyenne: “Guam”
  • Chinese: “Guam”
  • Chinese: “关岛”
  • Chinese: “關島”
  • Choctaw: “Kwam”
  • Cornish: “Guam”
  • Croatian: “Guam”
  • Czech: “Guam”
  • Danish: “Guam”
  • Dhivehi: “ގުއާމު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Guam”
  • Dutch: “GU”
  • Dutch: “Guam”
  • Dutch: “GUM”
  • Dzongkha: “གུ་འམ་ མཚོ་གླིང”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوام”
  • Esperanto: “Gvamo”
  • Estonian: “Guam”
  • Ewe: “Guam nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Guam”
  • Faroese: “Guam”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Guam”
  • Finnish: “Guam”
  • French: “GU”
  • French: “Guam”
  • French: “GUM”
  • French: “US-GU”
  • Fulah: “Guwam”
  • Gagauz: “Guam”
  • Galician: “Guam”
  • Ganda: “Gwamu”
  • Georgian: “გუამი”
  • German: “Guam”
  • German: “US-GU”
  • Gilaki: “گۊام”
  • Greek: “Γκουάμ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Guam”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઆમ”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વામ”
  • Haitian: “Gwanm”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Guam”
  • Hausa: “Guam”
  • Hausa: “Gwam”
  • Hebrew: “גואם”
  • Hiligaynon: “Guaján”
  • Hiligaynon: “Guwahan”
  • Hindi: “गुआम का क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “गुआम”
  • Hungarian: “Guam”
  • Icelandic: “Gvam”
  • Ido: “Guam”
  • Igbo: “Guam”
  • Iloko: “Guahan”
  • Iloko: “Guaján”
  • Iloko: “Guam”
  • Indonesian: “Guam”
  • Interlingua: “Guam”
  • Irish: “Guam”
  • Italian: “Guam”
  • Japanese: “グアム”
  • Japanese: “大宮島”
  • Javanese: “Guam”
  • Kalaallisut: “Guam”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಮ್‌‌‌‌”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಮ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Guam”
  • Kashmiri: “گُوام”
  • Kazakh: “Гуам аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Гуам”
  • Khmer: “កោះហ្គាំ”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គាំ”
  • Kikuyu: “Gwam”
  • Kinaray-A: “Guaján”
  • Kinaray-A: “Guwahan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gwami”
  • Kirghiz: “Гуам”
  • Komering: “Guam”
  • Komering: “Guwam”
  • Korean: “괌”
  • Kurdish: “Guam”
  • Ladin: “Guam”
  • Ladino: “Guam”
  • Lao: “ກວມ”
  • Lao: “ກວາມ”
  • Latin: “Guama”
  • Latin: “Insula Guama”
  • Latvian: “Guama”
  • Ligurian: “Guam”
  • Limburgan: “Guam”
  • Lingala: “Gwamɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Guam”
  • Lithuanian: “Guamas”
  • Lojban: “lo gugdegu’u”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ngwame”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guam”
  • Macedonian: “Гуам”
  • Malagasy: “Guam”
  • Malay: “Guam”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവാം”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാം”
  • Maltese: “Guam”
  • Maltese: “Gwam”
  • Maltese: “Territorju ta’ Guam”
  • Manx: “Guam”
  • Maori: “Kuamu”
  • Marathi: “गुआम”
  • Marathi: “ग्वॉम”
  • Mazanderani: “گوام”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Guam”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guam”
  • Mingrelian: “გუამი”
  • Mongolian: “Гуам”
  • N'Ko: “ߜ߭ߎ߬ߥߊߡ”
  • Nepali: “गुवाम”
  • Nepali: “ग्वाम”
  • Newari: “ग्वाम”
  • North Ndebele: “Guam”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guam”
  • Northern Luri: “گوآم”
  • Northern Sami: “Guam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guam”
  • Norwegian: “Guam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guam”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guam”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଆମ୍”
  • Ossetian: “Гуам”
  • Pampanga: “Guahan”
  • Pampanga: “Guaján”
  • Pampanga: “Guam”
  • Pangasinan: “Guaján”
  • Pangasinan: “Guwahan”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਮ”
  • Papiamento: “Guam”
  • Persian: “گوآم”
  • Persian: “گوام”
  • Picard: “Guam”
  • Piemontese: “Guam”
  • Polish: “Guam”
  • Portuguese: “Guam”
  • Pushto: “ګوام”
  • Quechua: “Guam”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Guaján”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Guwahan”
  • Romanian: “Guam”
  • Romansh: “Guam”
  • Rundi: “Gwamu”
  • Russian: “Гуам”
  • Russian: “Территория Гуам”
  • Samoan: “Guam”
  • Samoan: “Kuamu”
  • Sango: “Guâm”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱩᱣᱟᱢ”
  • Sardinian: “Guam”
  • Scots: “Guam”
  • Scots: “Territory o Guam”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guam”
  • Serbian: “Gvam”
  • Serbian: “Гвам”
  • Serbian: “Гуам”
  • Serbian: “Територија Гвам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guam”
  • Shan: “ၵႂၢမ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Guam”
  • Sicilian: “Guam”
  • Silesian: “Guam”
  • Sindhi: “گوام”
  • Sinhala: “ගුආම්”
  • Sinhala: “ගුවාම්”
  • Slovak: “Guam”
  • Slovak: “Guamské teritórium”
  • Slovenian: “Guam”
  • Slovenian: “Gvam”
  • Somali: “Guaam”
  • Somali: “Guam”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گوام”
  • Southern Sami: “Guam”
  • Spanish: “Guaham”
  • Spanish: “Guahan”
  • Spanish: “Guåhån”
  • Spanish: “Guajam”
  • Spanish: “Guaján”
  • Spanish: “Guam”
  • Spanish: “Isla de San Juan”
  • Spanish: “San Juan”
  • Spanish: “Territorio de Guam”
  • Sundanese: “Guam”
  • Swahili: “Guam”
  • Swedish: “Guam”
  • Swiss German: “Guam”
  • Tagalog: “Guaján”
  • Tagalog: “Guam”
  • Tagalog: “Guwahan”
  • Tajik: “Гуам”
  • Tamil: “குவாம்”
  • Tatar: “Гуам”
  • Telugu: “గువామ్”
  • Telugu: “గ్వామ్”
  • Thai: “กวม”
  • Tigrinya: “ጉዋም”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kuamu”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Guam”
  • Turkish: “Guam”
  • Turkmen: “Guam”
  • Uighur: “Guam Aril”
  • Uighur: “گۇئام”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуам”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуам”
  • Urdu: “گوام”
  • Uzbek: “Guam”
  • Venetian: “Guam”
  • Vietnamese: “Guam”
  • Võro: “Guam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guaján”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guwahan”
  • Welsh: “Guam”
  • Welsh: “Gwam”
  • Western Frisian: “Guam”
  • Western Frisian: “Gûam”
  • Western Frisian: “Territoarium Gûam”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوام”
  • Wolof: “Guam”
  • Wolof: “Guwam”
  • Wu Chinese: “关岛”
  • Yakut: “Гуам”
  • Yiddish: “גואם”
  • Yiddish: “גוואַם”
  • Yoruba: “Guam”
  • Yoruba: “Guamu”
  • Yue Chinese: “關島”
  • Zulu: “i-Guam”
  • “GU”
  • “Guam”
  • “GUM”
  • “ma Kawan”
  • “US-GU”

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