Average The Republic of the Marshall Islands Quiz | 10 Questions | Geography

Answer: Pacific

The Marshall Islands are in the northern Pacific Ocean midway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii.

Answer: Majuro

Majuro is an atoll of 64 islands with a total land mass of 3.7 square miles (which is about one and half times the size of Gibraltar). The main population centre on Majuro Atoll, also named Majuro (population about 25,000), serves as the legislative capital of the Marshall Islands. The country's only international airport is also located here.

Kwajalein Atoll, one of the world's largest coral atolls, consists of 69 islands, the largest of which is Kwajalein Island. About 2.5 miles long and 800 yards wide, Kwajalein Island is home to about 1,000 people. The average height above sea level is less than six feet and the average water temperature off the island's beaches is 81F (27C).

Jaluit Atoll consists of 91 islands located about 140 miles southwest of the country's capital, Majuro. Home to just over 1,000 people, Jaluit Atoll is a designated conservation area.
Arno Atoll consists of 133 islands and lies just 12 miles to the east of Majuro. Although it only has five square miles of land, Arno Atoll encompasses three lagoons covering a total area of over 130 square miles (slightly larger than Malta).

Answer: Micronesia

The Marshall Islands are part of the Micronesia region. North of Melanesia, west of Polynesia, east of the Philippines and northeast of Indonesia, Micronesia encompasses thousands of islands spread across a huge expanse of ocean but only has a land area of some 1,230 square miles (a bit larger than Luxembourg). Besides the Marshall Islands, Micronesia also includes the Caroline Islands, the Gilbert Islands and the Mariana Islands.

Answer: Sunrise and Sunset

The Marshall Islands is made up of 29 atolls and five individual islands. The group is split into two roughly parallel chains of islands running essentially north-south. The Ratak Chain (meaning sunrise) lies to the east and the Ralik Chain (meaning sunset) to the west. More than 65% of the country's estimated 68,000 inhabitants live either on the island of Majuro in the Ratak Chain, or on Ebeye in the Ralik Chain.

Answer: Wake Island

Wake Island, an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the U.S. to which the Marshall Islands lays claim, lies immediately north of the Marshall Islands. It is actually an atoll consisting of three individual islands with a total area of 2.85 square miles.

Bikini Atoll, the site of American nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, is part of the Marshall Islands. It is an atoll consisting of 23 islands at the northern end of the Railik Chain. Guam lies directly north of Papua New Guinea. It is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. The Midway Atoll is in the Northern Pacific, near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago, one-third of the way from Honolulu, Hawaii to Tokyo, Japan.

Answer: Liechtenstein

With a land area of just 70 square miles, the Marshall Islands are slightly larger than Liechtenstein (62 square miles). San Marino is much smaller, just 26 square miles, so it would fit almost three times into the Marshall Islands. Malta (122 square miles) is almost twice the size of the Marshall Islands and the Isle of Man (221 square miles) would just about hold the Marshall Islands three times over. However, more than 98% of the Marshall Islands' territory is water, giving it a total area of around 4,500 square miles -- nearly twice the size of the US state of Delaware and about the size of Qatar.

Answer: Blue

Adopted to coincide with the start of self-governance in 1979, the rather distinctive flag was designed by First Lady Emlain Kabua to symbolize the country's oceanic location. The flag is mainly blue, with diagonal bands of brown and white rising from left to right to represent the equator. The 24-point star in the top left corner represents the number of electoral districts in the country.

Answer: Marshallese

Someone from the Marshall Islands is Marshallese. This is also the name of one of the country's two official languages (along with English). The Marshallese language, which is also known as "Ebon", is a Malayo-Polynesian language. There are two distinct dialects of Marshallese, one for islands in the Ratak Chain and the other for Ralik islands, although they are mutually intelligible.

Answer: Shark

In 2011, the Marshall Islands government established an area of some 772,000 square miles (almost two million square km) of ocean as the world's largest shark sanctuary, which virtually doubled the protected area for sharks worldwide. All shark fishing is banned within the sanctuary area although whether the Marshall Islands have the ability to enforce this zone is open to question.

Answer: Coconut Oil

Coconut trees are the most common plant on many of the Pacific's tropical islands, and the Marshall Islands is no exception. Government backed companies have been experimenting with ways to use coconut oil as an alternative to diesel fuel for motor vehicles, ships and power generation. The oil is produced from "copra", the white meat of the coconut, with 6-10 coconuts producing one liter of oil.