![]() ![]() ![]() Tinian was sold to the German Empire in 1899. Disease and conflicts reduced the native population from around 100,000 to about 1400 by the 1700s, and they were moved to Guam in 1720. By the late 1600s it was a Spanish possession and had become a supply station for Spanish, English, Dutch, and French ships to take on food and water. The first settlers arrived about 1500 BCE, and later migrations included settlers from the Caroline Islands and Southeast Asia the resulting indigenous people are known as Chamorros. The population in 2010 was 3,136, and residents are American citizens. Most of the island is nearly flat, with the highest elevation being 561 feet (171 meters). Tinian has an area of about 39 square miles (25,000 acres, 101 square kilometers) for comparison, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is close to the same size, covering about 35 square miles (22,201 acres, 90 square kilometers) and Yellowstone National Park is about ten times the size, at 3,472 square miles, about 2.5 million acres or about 9,000 square kilometers. West of the Phillipines and south of Japan, Tinian is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, administered by the United States. NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION B-29s parked at Tinian during World War II.
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