What the records say
- When
- 1922
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Kingman Reef
- Coordinates
- 6.40° N, 162.40° W
- Process
- annexation
- Type
- Annexation (unilateral)
- Pop
- 0
- Area km2
- 0
- Gaining
- United States
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Kingman Reef
Reef and unincorporated U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean
Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, geologically an atoll, 9.0 nmi (20 km) east-west and 4.5 nmi (8 km) north-south, in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa. It has an area of 3 hectares and is an unincorporated territory of the United States in Oceania.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation