Micronesia
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Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, consisting of approximately 2,000 small islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. It has a close shared cultural history with three other island regions: Maritim
Tarawa Atoll
Mount Marpi in Saipan.
Beach scenery at Laura, Majuro, Marshall Islands
Image of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, detonated on 1 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll
Nauru
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Nauru, officially the Republic of Naoero, is an island country and microstate in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies within the Micronesia subregion of Oceania, with its nearest neighbour being Banaba ab
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…States; some of them belong to the U.S. Territory of Guam and the rest belong to the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The island of Nauru is its own sovereign nation. The Marshall Islands all belong to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The sovereignty of Wake Island is contested: it…
Photo of a Nauruan warrior during the Nauruan Civil War c. 1880
U.S. Army Air Forces bombing the Japanese airstrip on Nauru (1943).
Coastal beach area of Nauru, with its distinctive natural coral pillars
Buada Lagoon