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- the Aloha State - welcomes and seduces visitors with its
frangipani-scented sea breezes and tropical warmth. This is where East
merges with West in a blur of hula and disco, soap operas and creation
myths, junk food and Japanese tea ceremonies, and Shinto shrines and surf
clubs. Mark Twain declared Hawaii to be 'the loveliest fleet of islands
that lies anchored in any ocean', and not even thirty years of mass
tourism have managed to prove him wrong.
Area: 6470 sq miles (16,757 sq km)
Population: 1.2 million
State capital: Honolulu (pop 400,000)
People: 32% mixed ethnicity, 22% Caucasian, 22% Japanese, 12%
Filipino, 5% Chinese, 1% Hawaiian
Language: English, pidgin & Hawaiian, brah
Religion: Predominantly Catholic, but also Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist,
Jewish and Muslim
Major
industries: Tourism (nearly 7 million visitors per year) accounts for
more than one-third of the state's income. The US military pumps $3
billion a year into the economy. Agriculture comes in a distant third.
Hawaii is part of the USA, therefor you find in
the USA of this website more
information on the Country Profile.
The Hawaii archipel streches all the way west towards Micronesia.
We have grouped the following islands with the Marshall Islands,
although they are geographically part of the Hawaii.
For maps on
Hawaii, go to:
For more detailed
information per island on Hawaii, go to:
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