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Hawaii Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pacific air traffic center in Shanghai, very important strategic position. The main eight largest island and more than 120 islets, from southeast to northwest diagonal of the Tropic of Cancer, extending more than 2,400 kilometers, with a total area of ​​16,700 square kilometers. Population of 1,135,000 (1991). The capital and largest city of Honolulu (Honolulu). About the fifth century, the Polynesians from the South Pacific to shift this. First discovered the Islands of the Europeans is Spain's Juan Gaetano, while the real Hawaii is known British navigator Captain Cook in 1778, he boarded the Hawaiian Islands. In 1795, Kamehameha Emirates conquer other tribes, the establishment of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Build the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. The kingdom was overthrown in 1893, and the following year built Republic. 1898 annexation by the United States, March 11, 1959, the U.S. Senate approved Hawaii joined the United States, to become the 50th state of the United States. Hawaii Pacific naval and air bases, and shipping center in America, Asia, Australia and the tri-state position is very important.