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Area > Comparative four times the size of Washington, DC (land area only)
Area > Land	702 sq km		[183rd of 238]
Area > Total	702 sq km		[193rd of 250]
Capital city with population	Palikir - (est. 9,900)
Climate tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage
Coastline	6,112 km		[28th of 271]
Elevation extremes > Highest point	Dolohmwar (Totolom) 791 m
Forested Land	21.7%		[113rd of 193]
Geographic coordinates	6 55 N, 158 15 E
Land use > Arable land	5.71%		[146th of 258]
Largest city	Palikir
Largest city with population	Palikir
Location Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia
Map references Oceania
Natural hazards typhoons (June to December)
Natural resources forests, marine products, deep-seabed minerals, phosphate
Population density	187.32 people per sqkm		[56th of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km	157.84 people/m²		[56th of 204]
Surface area > sq. km	700 km²		[180th of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain	Dolohmwar (Totolom)

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