Garapan
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Garapan is the largest town and the main tourist destination on Saipan Island , Northern Mariana Islands . The census-designated place has an area of 1.2 km² and a population of 3,588 (2000 census).
The place is on the west coast. Among other things, this is where the American Memorial Park is located, which commemorates the fallen US soldiers who fell during the Battle of Saipan . Next to it is the Micro Beach.
A tourist attraction is the Paseo De Marianas ("Hotel Street"), a promenade and shopping mile.
history
During the German colonial rule (1898–1914) a road was built between Garapan and Tanapag . Garapan was chosen as the administrative seat of the Japanese Empire when Japan was awarded the Japanese South Seas Mandate by the League of Nations in 1920. Under Nan'yō Kōhatsu , the city developed very strongly and in the mid-1930s the city had about 14,000 inhabitants, mostly Japanese and Koreans .
The prosperity ended with the end of the Second World War . During the battle for Saipan in 1944 the place was badly hit. The few survivors were forcibly taken to Japan . Large resorts emerged in the 1970s . Some of the few remaining buildings from the Japanese era , such as the Nan'yo-cho Saipan Hospital, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.citypopulation.de/NorthernMarianas.html
- ^ American Memorial Park
Coordinates: 15 ° 13 ′ N , 145 ° 44 ′ E