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[[File:Oceania UN Geoscheme - Map with Zones.svg|thumb|upright=1.35|Subregions ([[Melanesia]], [[Micronesia]], [[Polynesia]] and [[Australasia]]), as well as sovereign and dependent islands of [[Oceania]]]]
[[File:Pacific Culture Areas (Philippines+Vanuatu Correction).
[[File:Mapa Micronesia.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Outline of sovereign (dark orange) and dependent islands (bright orange)]]
'''Micronesia''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˌ|m|aɪ|k|r|ə|ˈ|n|iː|z|i|ə}}, {{IPAc-en|US|-|ˈ|n|iː|ʒ|ə}})<ref>from {{lang-grc|μικρός}} ''mikrós'' "small" and {{lang|grc|νῆσος}} ''nêsos'' "island"</ref> is a [[subregion]] of [[Oceania]], consisting of
The region has a [[tropical marine climate]] and is part of the [[Oceanian realm]]. It includes four main [[archipelago]]s—the [[Caroline Islands]], the [[Gilbert Islands]], the [[Mariana Islands]], and the [[Marshall Islands]] — as well as numerous islands that are not part of any archipelago.
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Political control of areas within Micronesia varies depending on the island, and is distributed among six sovereign nations. Some of the Caroline Islands are part of the [[Palau|Republic of Palau]] and some are part of the [[Federated States of Micronesia]] (often shortened to "FSM" or "Micronesia"—not to be confused with the identical name for the overall region). The [[Gilbert Islands]] (along with the [[Phoenix Islands]] and the [[Line Islands]] in Polynesia) comprise the Republic of [[Kiribati]]. The Mariana Islands are affiliated with the United States; some of them belong to the [[territories of the United States|U.S. Territory]] of [[Guam]] and the rest belong to the [[Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|U.S. Commonwealth]] of the [[Northern Mariana Islands]]. The island of [[Nauru]] is its own sovereign nation. The [[Marshall Islands]] all belong to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The sovereignty of [[Wake Island]] is contested: it is claimed both by the United States and by the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The United States has actual possession of Wake Island, which is under the immediate administration of the [[United States Air Force]].
Notwithstanding the fact that the notion of "Micronesia" has been quite well established since 1832 and has been used ever since, by most popular works, this set does not correspond to any geomorphological, archaeological, linguistic, ethnic or cultural unity, but on the contrary represents a disparate ensemble, with no real deep unity. In fact, "Micronesian people"
Human settlement of Micronesia began several millennia ago.{{sfn|Kirch|2001|p=167}} Based on the current scientific consensus, the Austronesian peoples originated from a [[early human migrations|prehistoric seaborne migration]], known as the [[Austronesian peoples#Migration from Taiwan|Austronesian expansion]], from pre-[[Han Chinese|Han]] [[Taiwan|Formosa]], at around 3000 to 1500 BCE. Austronesians reached the northernmost [[Philippines]], specifically the [[Batanes|Batanes Islands]], by around 2200 BCE. Austronesians were the first people to invent oceangoing sailing technologies (notably [[catamaran]]s, [[outrigger boat]]s, [[lashed-lug]] [[boat building]], and the [[crab claw sail]]), which enabled their rapid dispersal into the islands of the [[Indo-Pacific]].<ref name="Doran1981">{{cite book |last1=Doran |first1=Edwin B. |title=Wangka: Austronesian Canoe Origins |date=1981 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=9780890961070}}</ref><ref name="Dierking2007">{{cite book |last1=Dierking |first1=Gary |title=Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes: Modern Construction Methods for Three Fast, Beautiful Boats |date=2007 |publisher=International Marine/McGraw-Hill |isbn=9780071594561}}</ref><ref name="Horridge1986">{{cite journal |last1=Horridge |first1=Adrian |title=The Evolution of Pacific Canoe Rigs |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |date=1986 |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=83–89 |jstor=25168892|doi=10.1080/00223348608572530 }}</ref> From 2000 BCE they assimilated (or were assimilated by) the earlier populations on the islands in their migration pathway.<ref name="Bellwood1988">{{cite journal |last1=Bellwood |first1=Peter |title=A Hypothesis for Austronesian Origins |journal=Asian Perspectives |date=1988 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=107–117 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5105193.pdf |access-date=1 May 2019 |archive-date=1 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501105624/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5105193.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Bellwood 1991">{{cite journal |last1=Bellwood |first1=Peter |title=The Austronesian Dispersal and the Origin of Languages |journal=Scientific American |date=1991 |volume=265 |issue=1 |pages=88–93 |jstor=24936983|bibcode=1991SciAm.265a..88B |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0791-88 }}</ref><ref name="hill&serjeanston1989">{{cite book |editor=Hill, Adrian V.S. |editor2=Serjeantson, Susan W. |title =The Colonization of the Pacific: A Genetic Trail|publisher =Oxford University Press|series =Research Monographs on Human Population Biology No. 7|year =1989|isbn = 9780198576952}}</ref><ref name="Bellwood2006">{{cite book |last1=Bellwood |first1=Peter |last2=Fox |first2=James J. |last3=Tryon |first3=Darrell |name-list-style=vanc |title=The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives |date=2006 |publisher=Australian National University Press |isbn=9781920942854 |url=https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/comparative-austronesian-series/austronesians |access-date=23 March 2019 |archive-date=2 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402234524/https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/comparative-austronesian-series/austronesians |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="blench2012">{{cite book|author =Blench, Roger|editor =Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin|editor2 =Reinecke, Andreas|editor3 =Bonatz, Dominik|title =Crossing Borders|chapter =Almost Everything You Believed about the Austronesians Isn't True|publisher =National University of Singapore Press|year =2012|pages =128–148|isbn =9789971696429|chapter-url =http://www.rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/Berlin%202010/Blench%20Austronesians%202012%20offprint.pdf|access-date =23 March 2019|archive-date =30 December 2019|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20191230083644/http://www.rogerblench.info/Archaeology/SE%20Asia/Berlin%202010/Blench%20Austronesians%202012%20offprint.pdf|url-status =live}}</ref> The earliest known contact of Europeans with Micronesia was in 1521, when [[Magellan expedition]] landed in the [[Mariana Islands|Marianas]]. [[Jules Dumont d'Urville]] is usually credited with coining the term "Micronesia" in 1832, but in fact, {{ill|Louis Domeny de Rienzi|fr}} used this term a year earlier.{{sfn|Rainbird|2004|p=6}}<ref> « Although based on a superficial understanding of the Pacific islanders, Dumont d'Urville's tripartite classification stuck. Indeed, these categories — Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians — became so deeply entrenched in Western anthropological thought that it is difficult even now to break out the mould in which they entrap us ([[Nicholas Thomas (anthropologist)|Thomas]], 1989). Such labels provide handy geographical referents, yet they mislead us greatly if we take them to be meaningful segments of cultural history. Only Polynesia has stood the tests of time and increased knowledge, as a category with historical significance », [[Patrick Vinton Kirch]], ''On the Road of the Winds : an Archeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact'', Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000 : 5.</ref>
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===Caroline Islands===
The [[Caroline Islands]] are a widely scattered [[archipelago]] consisting of about 500 small [[coral island]]s, north of [[New Guinea]] and east of the [[Philippines]]. The Carolines consist of two
===Gilbert Islands===
[[File:South Tarawa from the air.jpg|thumb|[[Tarawa Atoll]]]]
The [[Gilbert Islands]] are a chain of sixteen [[atoll]]s and coral islands, arranged in an approximate north-to-south line. In a geographical sense, the [[equator]] serves as the dividing line between the northern Gilbert Islands and the southern Gilbert Islands. The [[Kiribati|Republic of Kiribati]] contains all of the Gilberts, including the island of [[Tarawa]], the site of the country's capital.
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The [[Marshall Islands]] are located north of [[Nauru]] and [[Kiribati]], east of the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], and south of the U.S. territory of [[Wake Island]]. The islands consist of 29 low-lying [[atoll]]s and 5 isolated islands,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Geography.htm|title=Geography Overview | work = Embassy of the Republic of the Marshall Islands | publisher = Republic of the Marshall Islands |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115173707/http://rmiembassyus.org/Geography.htm|archive-date=15 November 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> comprising 1,156 individual islands and [[islet]]s. The atolls and islands form two groups: the [[Ratak Chain]] and the [[Ralik Chain]] (meaning "sunrise" and "sunset" chains). All the islands in the chain are part of the [[Republic of the Marshall Islands]], a [[Presidential system|presidential]] [[republic]] in [[Associated state|free association]] with the United States. Having few natural resources, the islands' wealth is based on a [[service economy]], as well as some [[fishing]] and [[agriculture]]. Of the 29 atolls, 24 of them are inhabited.
[[Bikini Atoll]] is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. There are 23 islands in the Bikini Atoll. The islands of Bokonijien, Aerokojlol and part of Nam were
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==History==
{{see also|History of the Federated States of Micronesia|History of the Marshall Islands}}
===Prehistory{{anchor|Pre-history}}===
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[[File:Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific.svg|thumb|upright=2|Chronological dispersal of [[Austronesian peoples]] across the [[Indo-Pacific]]<ref name="Chambers2013">{{cite journal |last1=Chambers |first1=Geoff |journal =eLS | title = Genetics and the Origins of the Polynesians |publisher= John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|date=15 January 2013 |doi=10.1002/9780470015902.a0020808.pub2|isbn=978-0470016176 }}</ref>]]
The [[Northern Mariana Islands]] were the first islands in [[Oceania]] colonized by the [[Austronesian peoples]]. They were settled by the voyagers who sailed eastwards from the [[Philippines]] in approximately 1500 BCE. These populations gradually moved southwards until they reached the [[Bismarck Archipelago]] and the [[Solomon Islands]] by 1300 BCE and reconnected with the [[Lapita culture]] of the southeast migration branch of Austronesians moving through coastal [[New Guinea]] and [[Island Melanesia]]. By 1200 BCE, they again began crossing open seas beyond inter-island visibility, reaching [[Vanuatu]], [[Fiji]], and [[New Caledonia]]; before continuing eastwards to become the ancestors of the [[Polynesian people]].<ref name="Chambers2013"/><ref name="wilson2018">{{cite book|first1=Meredith|last1=Wilson|first2=Chris|last2=Ballard|editor1-first=Bruno |editor1-last=David|editor2-first= Ian J.|editor2-last= McNiven|title =The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art|chapter=Rock Art of the Pacific: Context and Intertextuality|publisher =Oxford University Press|year =2018|pages=221–252|isbn = 9780190844950|chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=tXFyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref name="Bellwood2011">{{cite journal |last1=Bellwood |first1=Peter |title=The Checkered Prehistory of Rice Movement Southwards as a Domesticated Cereal—from the Yangzi to the Equator |journal=Rice |date=9 December 2011 |volume=4 |issue=3–4 |pages=93–103 |doi=10.1007/s12284-011-9068-9 |s2cid=44675525 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81529950.pdf|doi-access=free |bibcode=2011Rice....4...93B }}</ref>
Further migrations by other Austronesians also followed, likely from [[Sulawesi]], settling [[Palau]] and [[Yap]] by around 1000 BCE. The details of this colonization, however, are not very well known.<ref name="Chambers2013"/><ref name="wilson2018"/>{{sfn|Morgan|1988|p=30}} In 200 BCE, a loosely connected group of Lapita colonists from [[Island Melanesia]] also migrated back northwards, settling the islands of eastern Micronesia almost simultaneously. This region became the center of another wave of migrations radiating outwards, reconnecting them with other settled islands in western Micronesia.<ref name="Chambers2013"/><ref name="wilson2018"/>
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Around 800 CE, a second wave of migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Marianas, beginning what is now known as the [[Latte period]]. These new settlers built large structures with distinctive capped stone pillars known as ''haligi''. They also reintroduced [[rice]] (which did not survive earlier voyages), making the Northern Marianas the only islands in [[Oceania]] where rice was grown prior to European contact. However, it was considered a high-status crop and only used in rituals. It did not become a staple until after [[Spanish East Indies|Spanish colonization]].<ref name="Bellwood2011"/><ref name="Carson2012">{{cite journal |last1=Carson |first1=Mike T. |title=An overview of ''latte'' period archaeology |journal=Micronesica |date=2012 |volume=42 |issue=1/2 |pages=1–79 |url=https://micronesica.org/sites/default/files/1_carson1-79sm.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Peterson2012">{{cite journal |last1=Peterson |first1=John A. |title=Latte villages in Guam and the Marianas: Monumentality or monumenterity? |journal=Micronesica |date=2012 |volume=42 |issue=1/2 |pages=183–08 |url=https://micronesica.org/sites/default/files/5_smpeterson_pp183-208.pdf}}</ref>
Construction of [[Nan Madol]], a [[megalith]]ic complex made from [[Columnar basalt|basalt lava logs]] in Pohnpei, began in around 1180 CE. This was followed by the construction of the [[Leluh archaeological site|Leluh complex]] in [[Kosrae]] in around 1200
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The earliest known contact with Europeans occurred in 1521, when a Spanish expedition under [[Ferdinand Magellan]] reached the Marianas.<ref>{{Cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8V3vZxOmHssC&q=ferdinand+magellan+mariana+islands&pg=PA379 |title = The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History |isbn = 9781851099511 |last1 = Tucker |first1 = Spencer |year = 2009 | publisher = ABC CLIO | location = Santa Barbara, California}}</ref> This contact is recorded in [[Antonio Pigafetta]]'s chronicle of Magellan's voyage, in which he recounts that the Chamorro people had no apparent knowledge of people outside of their island group.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Levesque | editor-first = Rodrigue | year = 1992–1997 | title = History of Micronesia: A collection of source documents, Vols. 1–20 | location = Quebec, Canada | publisher = Levesque Publications | pages = 249, 251}}</ref> A Portuguese account of the same voyage suggests that the Chamorro people who greeted the travellers did so "without any shyness as if they were good acquaintances".{{sfn|Rainbird|2004|p=13-14}}
Further contact was made during the sixteenth century, although often initial encounters were very brief. Documents relating to the 1525 voyage of [[Diogo da Rocha]] suggest that he made the first European contact with inhabitants of the Caroline Islands, possibly staying on the [[Ulithi]] atoll for four months and encountering [[Yap]]. Marshall Islanders were encountered by the expedition of Spanish navigator [[Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón]] in 1529.<ref>{{Cite
===Colonisation and conversion===
[[File:HH1883 pg123 Hafen von Jaluit, Marshall-Inseln.jpg|thumb|German trading station at [[Jaluit Atoll]] with a Marshallese ''[[Walap|korkor]]'' outrigger canoe in the foreground]]
In the early 17th century [[Spain]] colonized [[Guam]], the [[Northern Marianas]] and the [[Caroline Islands]] (what would later become the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau), creating the [[Spanish East Indies]], which was governed from the [[Spanish Philippines]].
When Russian explorer [[Otto von Kotzebue]] visited the [[Marshall Islands]] in 1817, he noted that Marshallese families practiced [[infanticide]] after the birth of a third child as a form of population planning due to frequent [[famine]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hezel |first=Francis X. |date=1983 |title=The First Taint of Civilization: A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-colonial Days, 1521–1885 |series=Pacific Islands Monograph Series |location=Honolulu |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |pages=92–94 |isbn=9780824816438}}</ref>
In 1819, the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]]—a Protestant group—brought their Puritan ways to Polynesia. Soon after, the Hawaiian Missionary Society was founded and sent missionaries into Micronesia. Conversion was not met with as much opposition, as the local religions were less developed (at least according to Western ethnographic accounts). In contrast, it took until the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries for missionaries to fully convert the inhabitants of Melanesia; however, a comparison of the cultural contrast must take into account the fact that Melanesia has always had deadly strains of [[malaria]] present in various degrees and distributions throughout its history (see [[De Rays Expedition]]) and up to the present; conversely, Micronesia does not have—and never seems to have had—any malarial mosquitos nor pathogens on any of its islands in the past.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ridgell|first=Reilly|title=Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polonesia|page=43|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3liL6fAjrcC&q=%22micronesia%22 | edition = Third, Revised | publisher = Bess Press | location = Honolulu, Hawai'i |isbn=9781573060011|year=1995}}</ref>
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* the [[British Empire]], which took the [[Gilbert Islands]] (Kiribati).
During [[World War I]], Germany's Pacific island territories were seized and became [[League of Nations mandate]]s in 1923. Nauru became an [[Australia]]n mandate, while Germany's other territories in Micronesia were given as a mandate to [[Japan]] and were named the [[South Seas Mandate]]. During [[World War II]], Nauru and [[Banaba|Ocean Island]] were occupied by [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] troops, with also an [[Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands|occupation of some of the Gilbert Islands]] and were bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. Following Japan's defeat in [[World War II]] its mandate became a [[United Nations Trusteeship]] administered by the United States as the [[Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pelzer|first=Karl J.|date=1950|title=Micronesia—A Changing Frontier|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/world-politics/article/abs/micronesiaa-changing-frontier/7EB3E45CAA8069039DF2A73A5E630382|journal=World Politics|language=en|volume=2|issue=2|pages=251–266|doi=10.2307/2009190|jstor=2009190|s2cid=154463511 |issn=1086-3338|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Nauru became independent in 1968.
===21st century===
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== Economy ==
Nationally, the primary income is the sale of fishing rights to foreign nations that harvest tuna using huge [[purse seine]]rs. A few Japanese [[Longline fishing|long liners]] still ply the waters. The crews aboard fishing fleets contribute little to the local economy since their ships typically set sail loaded with stores and provisions that are cheaper than local goods. Additional money comes in from government grants, mostly from the United States and the $150 million the US paid into a trust fund for reparations of residents of Bikini Atoll that had to move after nuclear testing. Few mineral deposits worth exploiting exist, except for some high-grade phosphate, [[Phosphate mining in Nauru|especially on Nauru]].
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The [[tourist industry]] consists mainly of scuba divers that come to see the coral reefs, do wall dives and visit sunken ships from WWII. Major stops for scuba divers in approximate order are Palau, Chuuk, Yap and Pohnpei. Some private yacht owners visit the area for months or years at a time. However, they tend to stay mainly at ports of entry and are too few in number to be counted as a major source of income.
[[Copra]] production used to be a more significant source of income, however, world prices have dropped in part to large palm plantations that are now planted in places like [[Borneo]].
==Demographics==
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The people today form many ethnicities, but all are descended from and belong to the Micronesian culture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hudjashov |first1=Georgi |last2=Endicott |first2=Phillip |last3=Post |first3=Helen |last4=Nagle |first4=Nano |last5=Ho |first5=Simon Y. W. |last6=Lawson |first6=Daniel J. |last7=Reidla |first7=Maere |last8=Karmin |first8=Monika |last9=Rootsi |first9=Siiri |last10=Metspalu |first10=Ene |last11=Saag |first11=Lauri |date=2018-01-29 |title=Investigating the origins of eastern Polynesians using genome-wide data from the Leeward Society Isles |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=1823 |doi=10.1038/s41598-018-20026-8 |pmid=29379068 |pmc=5789021 |bibcode=2018NatSR...8.1823H |issn=2045-2322}}</ref>
Because of this mixture of descent, many of the ethnicities of Micronesia feel closer to some groups in [[Melanesia]], or the [[Philippines]]. A good example of this are the [[Yapese people]] who are related to [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian]] tribes in the northern [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Mauritania-to-Nigeria/Micronesians.html |title=Micronesians - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion, Major holidays, Rites of passage|work=everyculture.com
There are also substantial Asian communities found across the region, most notably in the [[Northern Mariana Islands]] where they form the majority and smaller communities of Europeans who have migrated from the United States or are descendants of settlers during European colonial rule in Micronesia.
Though they are all geographically part of the same region, they all have very different colonial histories. The US-administered areas of Micronesia have a unique experience that sets them apart from the rest of the Pacific. Micronesia has great economic dependency on its former or current motherlands, something only comparable to the French Pacific. Sometimes, the term ''American Micronesia'' is used to acknowledge the difference in cultural heritage.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last =Kiste | editor1-first= Robert C. | editor2-last =Marshall | editor2-first = Mac |title=American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment|year=1999|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8Dr4fJxlkIC&q=%22micronesia%22|isbn=9780824820176 | publisher = University of Hawai'i Press | location = Honolulu, Hawai'i}}</ref>
A 2011 survey found that 93.1% of Micronesian are [[Christians]];<ref name="Christianity in Oceania">{{citation | url = http://wwwgordonconwell.com/netcommunity/CSGCResources/ChristianityinitsGlobalContext.pdf | title = Christianity in its Global Context, 1970–2020: Society, Religion, and Mission | author = Center for the Study of Global Christianity | date = June 2013 | publisher = [[Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary]] | location = South Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130815184022/http://wwwgordonconwell.com/netcommunity/CSGCResources/ChristianityinitsGlobalContext.pdf | archive-date = 15 August 2013 }}</ref> a survey in 2022 showed that 99% were Christian.<ref name=US2022 />
===Indigenous groups===
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====Kaping people====
The roughly 3000 residents of the Federated States of Micronesia that reside in [[Kapingamarangi]], nicknamed 'Kapings', live in one of the most remote locations in both Micronesia and the world at large. Their home atoll is almost {{convert|
===Immigrant groups===
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Japanese rule in Micronesia also led to Japanese people settling the islands and marrying native spouses. [[Kessai Note]], the former president of the [[Marshall Islands]] has partial Japanese ancestry by way of his paternal grandfather, and [[Manny Mori|Emanuel Mori]], the former president of the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], is descended from one of the first settlers from Japan, [[Mori Koben|Koben Mori]].
A significant number of Micronesians were shown to have paternal genetic relations with Japanese [[Haplogroup D-M55]]. [[Genetic testing]] found that 9.5% of males from Micronesia as well as 0.2% in [[East Timor]]<ref name=Hammer2006>{{cite journal | last1 = Hammer | first1 = Michael F. | last2 = Karafet | first2 = Tatiana M. | last3 = Park | first3 = Hwayong | last4 = Omoto | first4 = Keiichi | last5 = Harihara | first5 = Shinji | last6 = Stoneking | first6 = Mark | last7 = Horai | first7 = Satoshi | year = 2006 | title = Dual origins of the Japanese: Common ground for hunter-gatherer and farmer Y chromosomes | journal = Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 51 | number = 1 | pages = 47–58 | doi = 10.1007/s10038-005-0322-0 | pmid = 16328082| doi-access = free }}</ref> carry what is believed to reflect recent admixture from Japan. That is, D-M116.1 (D1b1) is generally believed to be a primary subclade of D-M64.1 (D1b), possibly as a result of the [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies|Japanese military occupation of Southeast Asia]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="tumonggor"/>
====European people====
The 2010 census results of Guam showed 7.1% were white while the 2005 census for
[[File:Languages of Micronesia.en.svg|thumb|upright=1.65|Languages of Micronesia.]]
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===Architecture===
The book ''Prehistoric Architecture in Micronesia'' argues that the most prolific pre-colonial Micronesian architecture is
===Art===
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===Cuisine===
The cuisine of the Mariana Islands is tropical in nature, including such dishes as [[
[[Marshallese cuisine]] comprises the fare and foodways of the Marshall Islands, and includes local foods such as breadfruit, taro root, [[pandanus]] and seafood, among others.
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==Religion and mythology==
The predominant religion in Micronesia is [[Christianity]] (93%)
[[Micronesian mythology]] comprises the traditional belief systems of the people of Micronesia. There is no single belief system in the islands of Micronesia, as each island region has its own [[mythological creature|mythological beings]]. It was noted that 2.7% of the population followed folk religions in 2014.<ref name=US2022 />
There are several significant figures and myths in the traditions of the Federated States of Micronesia,
[[Shinto shrine|Shinto shrines]] dating from during or after [[World War II]] exist in some Micronesian countries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oskow |first=Noah |date=2020-07-13 |title=When Japan Ruled the Waves: The Forgotten Colonies of Micronesia |url=https://unseen-japan.com/japan-forgotten-colonies-micronesia/ |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=Unseen Japan |language=en-US}}</ref>
▲There are several significant figures and myths in the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauruan and Kiribati traditions.
==See also==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091201222720/http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/micg.htm Micronesian Games]
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