!!!Marshall Islands: Geography
||Location|Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia
||Geographic Coordinates|9 00 N, 168 00 E[{GoogleMap location='9.0,168.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''181 sq km\\''land: ''181 sq km\\''water: ''0 sq km\\''__note:__ ''the archipelago includes 11,673 sq km of lagoon waters and encompasses the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Kwajalein, Majuro, Rongelap, and Utirik\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|0 km
||Coastline|370.4 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''unnamed location on Likiep 10 m
||Highest Mountains|
||Terrain|low coral limestone and sand islands
||Natural Hazards|infrequent typhoons
||Natural Resource|coconut products, marine products, deep seabed minerals
||Land Use|''arable land: ''11.11%\\''permanent crops: ''44.44%\\''other: ''44.44% (2011)
||Climate|tropical; hot and humid; wet season May to November; islands border typhoon belt
||Irrigated Land|0 sq km (2011)
||Renewable Water Resources|NA
||Environment_CurrentIssues|inadequate supplies of potable water; pollution of Majuro lagoon from household waste and discharges from fishing vessels
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Rita, Majuro; Ebeye, Kwajalein; Laura, Majuro; Ajeltake; Enewetak\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Majuro; Ebaye; Arno; Jabor; Wotje\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/Australia/Marshall_Islands/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|the islands of Bikini and Enewetak are former US nuclear test sites; Kwajalein atoll, famous as a World War II battleground, surrounds the world's largest lagoon and is used as a US missile test range; the island city of Ebeye is the second largest settlement in the Marshall Islands, after the capital of Majuro, and one of the most densely populated locations in the Pacific