Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia
6 55 N, 158 15 E
Oceania
total: 702 sq km
land: 702 sq km
water: 0 sq km (fresh water only)
note: includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Chuuk (Truk) Islands, Yap Islands, and Kosrae (Kosaie)
four times the size of Washington, DC (land area only)
total: 0 km
6,112 km
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage
islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Chuuk
highest point: Nanlaud on Pohnpei 782 m
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
timber, marine products, deep-seabed minerals, phosphate
agricultural land: 25.5% (2018 est.)
arable land: 2.3% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 19.7% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 3.5% (2018 est.)
forest: 74.5% (2018 est.)
other: 0% (2018 est.)
0 sq km NA (2012)
0 cubic meters (2017 est.)
the majority of the populaton lives in the coastal areas of the high islands; the mountainous interior is largely uninhabited; less than half of the population lives in urban areas
typhoons (June to December)
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
composed of four major island groups totaling 607 islands
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