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Micronesia, Federated States of
| Location |
N Pacific Ocean , N of Papua New Guinea |
| Latitude and longitude |
6 55 N, 158 15 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Federated States of Micronesia";
freely associated with the United States; includes States of Chuuk,
Kosrae, Pohnpei, and
Yap |
| Population |
112,700 |
| Census notes |
est. June 2004 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
701 |
| Capital |
Palikir, Pohnpei |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Amended
Compact of Free Association, from the Pacific Islands Development
Program at the East-West Center (PDF 475K) |
| Revised
Subsidiary Agreements to the Compact of Free Association, from the
Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations of the Federated States of Micronesia |
| Constitution
of the Federated States of Micronesia, from the Legal
Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia |
Other legal documents online
|
|
Compacts
of Free Association Renegotiations, from the Pacific Islands
Development Program/East-West Center
|
|
Legal
Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia |
| Public
Laws of the Federated States of Micronesia (from 1995), from the
Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (PDF) |
| Trusteeship
Agreement for the Former Japanese Mandated Islands, from the Legal
Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia |
|
More
ISLAND LAW links for the Federated States of Micronesia |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| For citizens of the Federated States of
Micronesia, How
to Apply for a Work Permit in the United States on this website |
| Congress
of the Federated States of Micronesia; when
Island
Law
was last updated,this
link led to a place-marker page with no useful information. |
| Country
profile: Micronesia, from the BBC News |
| Division of Statistics,
Department of Economic Affairs, Government of the Federated States of Micronesia |
| Federated
States of Micronesia, map and basic demographic and economic
data from the South Pacific Island Web Atlas, provided by the GIS Unit
of the University of the South Pacific |
| Federated
States of Micronesia,
from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Federated
States of Micronesia,
from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| FSM,
Office
of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. |
| Fishery
Country Profile--Micronesia, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Government of the
Federated States of Micronesia, from the FSM Mission to the United
Nations |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Micronesia, from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Micronesia, Background
Note, from the U.S. Department of
State (2003) |
| Micronésie,
from Jacques Leclerc’s L'aménagement linguistique
dans le monde (French)
|
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2004 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 78K) |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth
Office, Country
Profile: Micronesia |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
The Amended U.S. Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands: Less Free, More Compact,
by Robert A. Underwood, formerly Delegate from Guam to the United States
House of Representatives, from East-West Center Working Papers, Pacific Island Development Series, No. 16
(PDF 162K) |
| Analysis
of the Fourteen Proposed Amendments to the FSM Constitution (as amended), by John R.
Haglelgam, President of the
3d FSM Constitutional Convention, Regent Professor at the College of
Micronesia-FSM, and former President of the
Federated States of Micronesia |
| Custom
and Constitutionalism in the Federated States of Micronesia, by
Edward C. King, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Federated States of Micronesia, from volume 3 of the Asia-Pacific Law
& Policy Journal, at page 249 (July 2002) (PDF 322K) |
| Federated
States of Micronesia,
by Michael R. Ogden for the World Encyclopedia of Political Systems
(3d ed. New York: Facts on File) |
| Micronesian Governments: A View from the Outside,
by Frances X. Hezel, SJ, from the Micronesian Counselor (April 2004) |
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