At the last leg of my trip to North Pacific, I landed in the Land of Stone Money. Federated States of Micronesia has an estimated population of 106,487 (July 2012 est.) and is spread across 2,500 kilometers of the Western Central Pacific Ocean, just north of the equator. It consists of four states of Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap and their 607 islands (only 65 are inhabited). It is a democratic country with no formal political parties and amazingly has seven official languages: English, Ulithian, Woleaian, Yapese, Pohnpeian, Kosraean, and Chuukese.
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