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Federated States of Micronesia
The
Federated States of Micronesia
(; abbreviated
FSM
) is an independent
sovereign
island nation
and a
United States
associated state
consisting of four
states
from west to east,
Yap
,
Chuuk
,
Pohnpei
and
Kosrae
that are spread across the
Western Pacific Ocean
. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands (a combined
land area
of approximately ) that cover a
longitudinal
distance of almost just north of the
equator
. They lie northeast of
New Guinea
, south of
Guam
and the
Marianas
, west of
Nauru
and the
Marshall Islands
, east of
Palau
and the
Philippines
, about north of eastern
Australia
and some southwest of the main islands of
Hawaii
.
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