Majuro
Sign in to saveMajuro (; Marshallese: '''' ) is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It forms a legislative district of the Ratak (Sunrise) Chain of the Marshall Islands. The atoll has a land area of and encloses a lagoon of . As with other atolls in the Marshall Islands, Majuro consists of narrow land masses. It has a tropical trade wind climate, with an average temperature of .
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Majuro is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean as a large coral atoll made up of 64 islands. It matters as the political and population center of the Marshall Islands, with a unique geography of narrow land masses surrounding a lagoon in a tropical climate.
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- Geography
- Climate
- History
- Demographics
- Religion
- Ethnic composition
- Economy
- Education
- Colleges and universities
- Primary and secondary schools
- Health
- Infrastructure
- Water and sewage
- Transport
- Air
- Sea
- Sport
- Twin towns
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Majuro (; Marshallese: '''' ) is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It forms a legislative district of the Ratak (Sunrise) Chain of the Marshall Islands. The atoll has a land area of and encloses a lagoon of . As with other atolls in the Marshall Islands, Majuro consists of narrow land masses. It has a tropical trade wind climate, with an average temperature of .
Majuro has been inhabited by humans for at least 2,000 years and was first settled by the Austronesian ancestors of the modern day Marshallese people. Majuro was the site of a Protestant mission and several copra trading stations in the 1870s, before the German Empire annexed the atoll as part of the German Protectorate of the Marshall Islands in 1885. The city was later under Japanese and American administration. After the Marshall Islands broke away from the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978 to form the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Majuro became the new country's capital and meeting place of the Nitijeļā, supplanting the former capital of Jaluit.