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The 'United States Minor Outlying Islands', a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions. Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory among them. Currently, none of them have any permanent residents. Most recently, the census of population of 1980 gives population figures for three of the islands: Johnston Atoll (327), Midway Atoll (453), and Wake Island (302). The following censuses of 1990 and 2000 only note that there was no indigenous population, which was also true for all previous censuses except that of 1940. The Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme attempted to settle Americans on those three islands beginning in 1935, but all three islands were evacuated in 1942 as a result of World War II.
They are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.
They are collectively represented by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".um" has historically been assigned to the islands; however, the .um ccTLD was retired in January of 2007 ^[1].

Atoll/Island	Island Area km²	Lagoon km²	Coordinates	NWR established	date of acquisition
'Northern Pacific Ocean, scattered isolated islands'
Wake Island1	7.4	6		N/A	1899-01-17
Johnston Atoll	2.52	130		N/A	1859-09-06
'Northern Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands'
Midway Atoll	5.18	40		1998	1867-08-28
'Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Line Islands'
Kingman Reef	0.03	60		2001-01-18	1860-02-08
Palmyra Atoll	6.56	15		2001-01-18	1912-02-21
'Central Pacific Ocean, Central Line Islands'
Jarvis Island	4.45	-		1974	1856-10-28
'Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Phoenix Islands'
Baker Island	1.24	-		1974	1856-10-28
Howland Island	1.62	-		1974	1856-10-28
'Caribbean Sea'
Navassa Island2	5.2	-		1999-09-30	1858-10-31
Bajo Nuevo Bank3	0.02	155		NA	1869-11-22
Serranilla Bank3	0.02	1200		NA	1879-09-08 1880-09-13
'U.S. Minor Outlying Islands	34.2	251
1claimed by the Marshall Islands
2claimed by Haiti
3These islands are disputed with Colombia, Jamaica, and possibly Honduras.    Their areas are not included in the totals.    Only one U.S. Government online resource [1] list these islands in the context of the United States Minor Outlying Islands, all others do not.

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Sources and references

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★ WorldStatesmen- U.S.

★ CIA World Factbook: United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges

★ Historical Population figures

★ dates of acquisition
1. Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone Anick Jesdanun

See also

★ United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges

★ United States Miscellaneous Caribbean Islands

★ United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands