Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Saipan
- Region
- Oceania, Micronesia
- Population
- 43,541 (2025)
- Area
- 477 km²
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Languages
- Filipino, Tagalog, Chinese, Chamorro, English
- Calling code
- +1-670
- Internet domain
- .mp
- ISO codes
- MP, MNP, 580
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
The Northern Mariana Islands covers about 477 square kilometres. By area it ranks 201st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Guam and a little larger than Andorra. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 15° north, 146° east, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 43,541 people live in the Northern Mariana Islands (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 215th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 91 people to each square kilometre. About 92 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 79 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Filipino, Tagalog, Chinese, Chamorro, English. A person from the Northern Mariana Islands is called American.
Money and economy
The currency is the United States dollar (code USD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of American Samoa, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Marshall Islands and 7 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.1 billion (2022), which is about US$ 23,786 for each person (2022).
Time
The Northern Mariana Islands uses one time zone, UTC+10:00 (Pacific/Saipan). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Saipan | 48,220 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Micronesia
Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.