From farthest east is the state of Kosrae, which is more closer to the islands of the Republic of the Marshalls than to the islands of Yap, then going Westward to the states of Pohnpei, Chuuk, and farthest west is the state of Yap, which is more closer to the islands of the Republic of Palau than the rest of the FSM. The four FSM states are widely spread apart by the ocean, hundreds of miles from east to west. Except the state of Kosrae doesn’t have any other smaller atolls. Some of the islands are volcanic and others are small atolls. Altogether, the FSM has 607 small islands located in the Western Pacific, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is made of four group of island states: Pohnpei (the Capital state), Chuuk (the largest in population), Yap, and Kosrae (the smallest, one-island state).
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