Hawaii Trivia

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• The state of Hawaii consists of 8 main islands: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe and Hawaii.
• Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth. It is 2,390 miles from California; 3,850 miles from Japan; 4,900 miles from China; and 5,280 miles from the Philippines.
• Iolani Palace, in Honolulu, is the only royal palace in the United States.
• Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that grows coffee.
• More than 1/3 of the world’s commercial supply of pineapple comes from Hawaii.
• There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet:
  • Five Vowels: A, E, I, O, U
  • Seven Consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W
• East to west, Hawaii is the widest state in the U.S.
• Hawaii has its own time zone (Hawaiian Standard Time) and no daylight savings.
• There are no racial or ethnic majorities in Hawaii. Everyone is a minority. Caucasians constitute about 34%; Japanese-American about 32%; Filipino-American about 16% and Chinese-American about 5%. It is very difficult to determine racial identification as most of the population has some mixture of ethnicities.