Micronesia

Micronesia, in northwest , is the home of tropical and subtropical islands in the Pacific Ocean. With the exceptions of Kiribati and Nauru, most of Micronesia is associated with the United States.
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is a remote archipelago nation in Micronesia, at the equator. It consists of 33 atolls widely dispersed through 3.5 million km² of sea territory.

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The are a group of atolls and reefs in , about half-way between and . The charm of the lies not in a great number of attractions.

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The is a country in the northwestern , composed of four major island groups just north of the equator.

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is a group of more than 300 tropical islands in the Micronesia area of the , to the southeast of the .

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is an island in the western Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from to the . An unincorporated territory of the United States of America, gets most of its visitors from , especially .

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The Commonwealth of the is a territory of the in Micronesia, visited mainly by tourists from . The Marianas' top activity among Americans is scuba diving and snorkeling.

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, officially the Republic of Naoero, is a small island in the south of the . It is the world's smallest independent republic and third-smallest country by area; only and the Vatican City are smaller.

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is a tiny island in Micronesia in the , 2/3 of the way from to , best known for its role in World War II. It is an unorganized territory, with no permanent residents, just members of the U.S. military and civilian contractors who manage the facility.

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The , also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.

Micronesia

Latitude of center
7° north
Longitude of center
155.25° or 155° 15′ east
Population
321,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5279875622
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Wiki­data ID
Q3359409
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Micronesia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Mikronesia”
  • Achinese: “Mikrônèsia”
  • Afrikaans: “Mikronesië”
  • Amharic: “ማይክሮኔዥያ”
  • Amis: “Mikoronisiya”
  • Angika: “माइक्रोनेशिया”
  • Arabic: “ميكرونيسيا”
  • Armenian: “Միկրոնեզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Micronèsia”
  • Arpitan: “Micronèsie”
  • Asturian: “Micronesia”
  • Atayal: “Micronesia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mikroneziya”
  • Balinese: “Mikronésia”
  • Basque: “Mikronesia”
  • Belarusian: “Мікранезія”
  • Belarusian: “Мікранэзія”
  • Bengali: “মাইক্রোনেশিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Mikronezija”
  • Breton: “Mikronezia”
  • Bulgarian: “Микронезия”
  • Catalan: “Micronèsia”
  • Central Bikol: “Micronesia”
  • Central Kurdish: “مایکرۆنیزیا”
  • Chamorro: “Micronesia”
  • Chinese: “密克罗尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “密克罗尼西亚岛群”
  • Chinese: “密克羅尼西亞”
  • Chinese: “密克羅尼西亞群島”
  • Chuvash: “Микронези”
  • Croatian: “Mikronezija”
  • Czech: “Mikronésie”
  • Danish: “Mikronesien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mikronezya”
  • Dutch: “Micronesië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Микронезий”
  • Esperanto: “Mikronezia regiono”
  • Esperanto: “Mikronezio”
  • Estonian: “Mikroneesia”
  • Faroese: “Mikronesia”
  • Finnish: “Mikronesia”
  • French: “Micronésie”
  • Galician: “Micronesia”
  • Georgian: “მიკრონეზია”
  • German: “Mikronesien”
  • Greek: “Μικρονησία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mikronézi”
  • Hebrew: “מיקרונזיה”
  • Hindi: “माइक्रोनीशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Mikronézia”
  • Icelandic: “Míkrónesía”
  • Iloko: “Mikronesia”
  • Inari Sami: “Mikronesia”
  • Indonesian: “Mikronesia”
  • Interlingua: “Micronesia”
  • Interlingue: “Micronesia”
  • Irish: “An Mhicrinéis”
  • Italian: “Micronesia”
  • Japanese: “ミクロネシア”
  • Javanese: “Mikronésia”
  • Kannada: “ಮೈಕ್ರೋನೇಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Mikroneziya”
  • Kazakh: “Микронезия”
  • Kinaray-A: “Mikronesya”
  • Kirghiz: “Микронезия”
  • Korean: “미크로네시아”
  • Kotava: “Mikronesia”
  • Latin: “Micronesia”
  • Latvian: “Mikronēzija”
  • Limburgan: “Micronesië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Micronesia”
  • Literary Chinese: “密克羅尼西亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Mikronezija”
  • Low German: “Mikronesië”
  • Low German: “Mikronesien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mikronesien”
  • Macedonian: “Микронезија”
  • Malagasy: “Mikrônezia”
  • Malay: “Mikronesia”
  • Maltese: “Mikronesja”
  • Maltese: “Mikroneżja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯥꯢꯀ꯭ꯔꯣꯅꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Maori: “Maikoronihia”
  • Marathi: “मायक्रोनेशिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Micronesia”
  • Minangkabau: “Mikronesia”
  • Mingrelian: “მიკრონეზია”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميكرونيزيا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mikroneesien”
  • Northern Sami: “Mikronesia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mikronesia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mikronesia”
  • Norwegian: “Mikronesia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Micronesia”
  • Ossetian: “Микронези”
  • Pali: “मैक्रोनीशिया”
  • Pampanga: “Micronesia”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਈਕ੍ਰੋਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “میکرونزی”
  • Polish: “Mikronezja”
  • Portuguese: “Micronésia”
  • Romanian: “Micronezia”
  • Russian: “Микронезия”
  • Samoan: “Micronisia”
  • Samoan: “Mikoronisia”
  • Samogitian: “Mikronezėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “मैक्रोनीशिया”
  • Sardinian: “Micronèsia”
  • Scots: “Micronesie”
  • Serbian: “Микронезија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mikronezija”
  • Sindhi: “مائڪرونيزيا”
  • Sindhi: “مائڪرونيشيا”
  • Sinhala: “මයික්‍රොනීසියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mikronesia”
  • Slovak: “Mikronézia”
  • Slovenian: “Mikronezija”
  • Spanish: “Micronesia”
  • Swahili: “Mikronesia”
  • Swedish: “Mikronesien”
  • Swiss German: “Mikronesien”
  • Tagalog: “Micronesia”
  • Tagalog: “Mikronesiya”
  • Tamil: “மைக்குரோனீசியா”
  • Tatar: “Микранизия”
  • Tatar: “Микронезия”
  • Telugu: “మైక్రొనీషియా”
  • Thai: “ไมโครนีเชีย”
  • Tibetan: “སླི་ཁེ་རི་ནི་ཞི་ཡ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Maikronisia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Mikolonisia”
  • Turkish: “Mikronezya”
  • Turkmen: “Mikroneziýa”
  • Ukrainian: “Мікронезія”
  • Urdu: “مائیکرونیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Mikroneziya”
  • Venetian: “Micronèzia”
  • Vietnamese: “Micronesia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Micronesia”
  • Welsh: “Micronesia”
  • Western Frisian: “Mikroneezje”
  • Western Mari: “Микронези”
  • Western Panjabi: “مائیکرونیشیا”
  • Wolof: “Mikroneesi”
  • Wu Chinese: “密克罗尼西亚”
  • Yoruba: “Mikronésíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “密克羅尼西亞”
  • “ma Makolonija”
  • “Micronesia”

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