Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasional severe damage
_#_Terrain: islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Truk
_#_Natural resources: forests, marine products, deep-seabed minerals
_#_Land use: arable land NA%; permanent crops NA%; meadows and pastures NA%; forest and woodland NA%; other NA%
_#_Environment: subject to typhoons from June to December; four major island groups totaling 607 islands
_#_Note: located 5,150 km west-southwest of Honolulu in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and Indonesia
_*People #_Population: 107,662 (July 1991), growth rate 2.5% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 34 births/1,000 population (1991)