Name: Geography Now! MICRONESIA (Federated states)
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:05:56.000Z
Duration: 12 min 6 s
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Hey everybody. Before you watch this episode, just a little disclaimer:

I was stupid and I booked the wrong day at the YouTube space

so we weren't able to film in the studios. So I had to improvise and we filmed in my house.

So the next two episodes are gonna have the same quality of how we used to film the episodes back in like 2016.

Relatively poor echoey, audio quality and very visible black backdrop.

But I did not want to 'not upload a video this week', so I had to give you something

I mean, These Geography Now! videos are mostly just about the information.

But anyway, I tried my best and I still want to give you a video this week

Imagine a dog named Ray on a dinner date.

When the bill came, he had to use his 'Pohnpei' (paw to pay)

but then was 'Chuuk' (shock) and surprised be-Kosrae ('cause Ray) was broke.

Alright, that's four strikes, you know the drill...

I'm just gonna refer to the country as "Micronesia" because the official title is too long...

I love Pacific island nations because they probably get the least amount of coverage in terms of global awareness

which means Geography Now! gets to be a platform for the obscure.

Plus, you know It kind of adds to the Oceania playlist.

The country lies in the sub-region of the Pacific Ocean known as Micronesia

which is obviously where the country gets its name from

which also includes the states of Palau, Nauru, parts of Kiribati

and the US Territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and Wake Island.

sometimes collectively referred to as the "Caroline Islands"

These take up over a million mi² of Oceanic territory

However, in land surface area, they only make up about 217mi².

All the islands are divided into 4 states made up of island clusters:

Oh and don't forget this little straggler Kapingaramangi belongs to it.

which is really only like one little island with a few small islets off its coast.

The capital Palikir is located on Pohnpei, the largest, highest and most populous island in the entire nation.

However, the largest city in itself is actually Weno on the Chuuk atoll.

The country has four International Airports, one for each of the states.

whereas one domestic airport lies on Ulithi.

There are also small airfields and air strips located on various islands across the country for shipping and deliveries.

Today, they do kind of have a small dispute with Spain over that little straggler guy, Kapingamarangi.

Apparently when the Spanish sold off their islands to the Germans, this little guy kind of wasn't part of the deal.

Eventually just kind of "de facto landed in Micronesia's claim".

Most of the urban centers are located on the large mountainous islands.

Three of which Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap hosts shipping harbours.

If you look close to Chuuk's harbour, they kind of have a ship that failed.

Just like we talked about in the Marshall Islands episode

Micronesia is also a "Compact of Free Association Agreement" state with the United States.

New subscriber: No. I haven't. I'm a new subscriber.

Oh yeah, some people are new to this channel.

Uh, well basically in the quickest way I can summarize it:

Micronesia: Alright, okay. I think we're kind of ready to be our own thing now.

USA: Oh, you know I already will all these bases.

diplomatic agreements with other nations. You guys seem to like that 'Spam' stuff as well and the burgers I introduced.

I mean, do you really want to start from scratch? Hmmm?

Micronesia: I mean, yes, but I don't know.

Maybe we can kind of like keep this thing going but also by relinquishing your official hold on us

so we kind of have like a nominal claim to independence?

USA: Oh Mikey, It's like you've been reading my diary!

And that's basically how it happened in the 80s.

some notable sites that the country might include:

Chuuk Lagoon, one of the world's biggest wartime ship graveyards

Japanese era sites like the old lighthouse