🇫🇲 Micronesia

Where is Micronesia?

Micronesia lies in Micronesia, on the continent of Oceania.

It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 770 km from the equator.

Its coastline is about 6 112 km long.

It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.

How big is Micronesia?

Micronesia covers 702 square kilometres.

Luxembourg is about 3.7 times bigger.

Among the world's countries that makes it the 176th largest.

If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 160.5 people on every square kilometre.

Who lives in Micronesia?

About 113 thousand people live in Micronesia.

That is the 178th biggest population in the world.

People here speak English.

The land of Micronesia

Its coast runs for about 6 112 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 306 days.

It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes Micronesia different?

Websites from here often end in .fm.

Micronesia and the rest of the world

Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0 live in Micronesia.

It takes up about 0 % of all the land that countries stand on.

Within Oceania it is the 10th largest of 14 countries, and the 9th most populated.

That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

Where this country lands in the record lists

• The 20 smallest countries in the world no. 19
• The 20 countries with the fewest people no. 17
• The countries with the longest coastlines no. 20