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TABLE 1
Comparison of Some Characteristics of New Guinea, the Solomons, Guam, the Ryukyu Islands, American Samoa, and Fiji
Island Capital Area in Population Form of Government Principal Predominant Predominant Currency
Sq. Miles (Est. 1965) and Products Language(s) Religion
Ruling Power
NEW GUINEA
Paupa ...... Port Moresby 90,600 560,000 External Territory Rubber, Copra Papuan, Negrito, Pantheistic Australian Dollar
(Australia) English of 100 Cents
New Guinea Port Moresby 94,430 1,575,000 Administrated from Copra, Cacao Papuan, Negrito, Pantheistic (Same as Above)
Papua English
West Irian. Kota Baru 160,600 775,000 Under Indonesian Forest Products, Papuan Languages Muslim The Rupiah of
Administration Oil, Copra 100 Sen
SOLOMONS
British Solomon Honiara 11,500 133,000 Protectorate (U.K.) Copra, Timber, Malay-Polynesian Christian (Roman Australian Dollar
Nuts, Trochus Shell Catholic-Anglican) of 100 Cents
Bougainville and
Buka .Port Moresby 4,100 55,000 Australian Trust (Same as Above) (Same as Above) Australian Dollar
Territory of 100 Cents
GUAM Agana 212 76,500 Unincorporated Vegetables English Roman Catholic U.S. Currency
Territory of Nuts Chamorro
United States
RYUKYU United States Military Sugar, Pineapple Japanese Buddhist cr Shinto U.S. Currency
ISLANDS .Naha 848 935,000 Administration
AMERICAN Unincorporated Fish Products, Polynesian Christian U.S. Currency
SAMOA ..Pago Pago 76 21,000 Territory of Copra, Cocoa, English
United States Handicrafts
FIJI .. Suva 7,040 464,000 Colony (U.K.) Sugar, Copra, Malay-Polynesian Christian (Methodist) The Fiji Pound of
Coconut Oil, English Indians-Hindus 20 Shillings
Bananas Hindi
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