60 Facts About Honolulu Hawaii

1. Honolulu Hawaii is located 2,090 miles west-southwest of San Francisco, California.

2. Honolulu Hawaii is the world's longest island chain, with 124 islands.

3. In 2006, Honolulu Hawaii, known as the Aloha state, was home to nearly 1.3 million people, 24.9 percent of whom were white.

4. Honolulu Hawaii was a prime military asset, and its profitable sugar plantations were attractive.

5. Honolulu Hawaii was the last state to join the Union when it was admitted on August 21, 1959.

6. In 2003, Honolulu Hawaii had 24 community hospitals, which together provided about 3,100 beds.

7. In 2004, Honolulu Hawaii ranked 20th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia with a per capita income of $32,625.

8. Honolulu Hawaii has a two-chamber legislature of 25 senators and 51 representatives.

9. In 2004, Honolulu Hawaii had 843,876 licensed drivers, and 4,318 miles of roads and streets.

10. In 2004, Honolulu Hawaii had a population density of about 196.6 persons per square mile.

11. In 2006, Honolulu Hawaii ranked 42nd in population in the United States with an estimated total of 1,285,498 residents.

12. Honolulu Hawaii became a convenient stop between continents for air travel as well.

13. Honolulu Hawaii is the largest and geologically the youngest island of the group, and Oahu, where the capital, Honolulu, is located, is the most populous and economically important.

14. Honolulu Hawaii has some twenty thousand acres planted with macadamia trees today.

15. Honolulu Hawaii is the site of an annual Professional Golfers' Association tournament and the world-famous Ironman Triathlon competition.

16. In 2003, Honolulu Hawaii employed 153,600 people in the travel and tourism industry.

17. Honolulu Hawaii had 12 major AM radio stations and 21 major FM stations as of 2003, as well as 10 major television stations.

18. Honolulu Hawaii is the only state to have a single, unified public school system.

19. In 2003, Honolulu Hawaii had 24 community hospitals with about 3,100 beds.

20. Honolulu Hawaii does not collect property taxes at the state level.

21. In 2004, a total of 14,035 people in Honolulu Hawaii were employed in the state's manufacturing sector, according to the ASM.

22. Honolulu Hawaii has the eighth-largest state-owned forest and natural area reserve system in the United States.

23. Honolulu Hawaii had an estimated 155,000 cattle and calves worth $97.6 million in 2005.

24. Honolulu Hawaii is the nerve center of US defense activities in the Pacific.

25. In 2003, Honolulu Hawaii spent $120,409,439 on homeland security, an average of $57 per state resident.

26. Honolulu Hawaii was the first state to go on record against the Patriot and Homeland Security acts.

27. In 2005, Honolulu Hawaii had a total of 48 public and private-use aviation-related facilities.

28. Honolulu Hawaii was characterized by Mark Twain as "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.

29. Honolulu Hawaii has the oldest school west of the Rocky Mountains.

30. Honolulu Hawaii has many plants that are endemic to the islands.

31. Honolulu Hawaii has the fewest overweight people in the United States.

32. Honolulu Hawaii has the highest life expectancy in the United States.

33. Honolulu Hawaii is the only US state whose majority of people are non-white.

34. Honolulu Hawaii has the highest population density in the United States.

35. Honolulu Hawaii was the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20, 1959.

36. Honolulu Hawaii is the only US state whose land area is increasing.

37. Honolulu Hawaii is more than 2,000 miles from the nearest continental land mass.

38. Honolulu Hawaii incurred the biggest seniority shift between the 112th and 113th Congresses.

39. Honolulu Hawaii is represented in the United States Congress by two senators and two representatives.

40. At one time Honolulu Hawaii had a network of railroads on each of the larger islands that transported farm commodities and passengers.

41. Honolulu Hawaii has the highest rates of private school attendance in the nation.

42. Honolulu Hawaii has the only school system within the US that is unified statewide.

43. Since the late 19th century, Honolulu Hawaii has become a major site for surfists from around the world.

44. Honolulu Hawaii represents the northernmost extension of the vast Polynesian Triangle of the south and central Pacific Ocean.

45. Honolulu Hawaii has the highest percentage of Asian Americans and multiracial Americans and the lowest percentage of White Americans of any state.

46. Center of population of Honolulu Hawaii is located between the two islands of O'ahu and Moloka'i.

47. Honolulu Hawaii was admitted as a US state on August 21, 1959.

48. Honolulu Hawaii was an independent republic from 1894 until August 12, 1898, when it officially became a territory of the United States.

49. Honolulu Hawaii is the only state to have never recorded sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures.

50. Honolulu Hawaii has more endangered species and has lost a higher percentage of its endemic species than any other US state.

51. Honolulu Hawaii is the 8th-smallest and the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populated of the 50 US states.

52. Honolulu Hawaii has over a million permanent residents, along with many visitors and US military personnel.

53. The University of Honolulu Hawaii is a significant employer for the city.

54. Honolulu Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959 and joined the Union as the 50th state with Honolulu as its capital.

55. In 2001, Honolulu Hawaii received $9.95 billion in foreign investment from Asia.

56. Honolulu Hawaii is ranked first in investment money coming from Asia to finance real estate projects and other industries.

57. The University of Honolulu Hawaii has its main campus in the Manoa Valley in Honolulu.

58. Honolulu Hawaii is a group of volcanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

59. Honolulu Hawaii became the 50th US state on August 21, 1959.

60. Honolulu Hawaii has one of the nation's highest rate of private school attendance.