Federated States of Micronesia

The Federated States of Micronesia, or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania. It consists of four states—from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae—that are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands that cover a longitudinal distance of almost 2,700 km just north of the equator. They lie northeast of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, south of Guam and the Marianas, west of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, east of Palau and the Philippines, about 2,900 km north of eastern Australia, 3,400 km southeast of Japan, and some 4,000 km southwest of the main islands of the Hawaiian Islands.

While the FSM's total land area is quite small, the country's waters occupy nearly 3 million km2 of the Pacific Ocean, giving the country the 14th-largest exclusive economic zone in the world.