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- Scattered archipelago in Micronesia, Pacific
- Ocean, consisting of over 500 coral islets;
- area 1,200 sq km/463 sq mi. The chief islands
- are Ponape, Kusai, and Truk in the eastern
- group, and Yap and Belau in the western. They
- are well watered and productive. Occupied by
- Germany 1899, and Japan 1914, and mandated by
- the League of Nations to Japan 1919, they
- were fortified, contrary to the terms of the
- mandate. Under Allied air attack in World War
- II they remained unconquered. In 1947 they
- became part of the US Trust Territory of the
- Pacific Islands.
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