!!!Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands

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The Marshall Islands [{GoogleMap location='Marshall islands'}], officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country. It is a United States associated state near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia.

 
The  population of some 50.000 is living on 29 coral atolls, with over 1.000 separate islands and islets. Over two-thirds of the population live in the capital and largest city  Majuro [{GoogleMap location='Majuro'}]on the coral atoll of the same name, some 150 km NE of the Jaluit Atoll [{GoogleMap location='Jaluit'}]. Ebeje (or Ebeye) [{GoogleMap location='Ebeye'}], the secondary urban center, is located in the Kwajalein Atoll on an islet a bit N of the islet of Kwajalein. [{GoogleMap location='Kwajalein' zoom='13'}]

Jaluit Atoll is a large coral atoll of 91 islands in the Pacific Ocean and is part of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is a bit over 13 square kilometres, but it encloses a lage lagoon with an area of 690 square kilometres  Most of the land area is on the largest islet (motu) of Jaluit (over 10 km²). 

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