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The Republic of the Marshall Islands are centrally located in the Pacific ocean between 4° and 19° North latitude and 160° and 175° East longitude. The islands are situated in two parallel chains, the Ratak (sunset) and Ratak (sunrise) chains, spreading out over an exclusive economic zone of nearly 1 million square miles (one of the largest in the world). The Marshall Islands are comprised of 1, 220 islands with 29 coral atolls and 5 single coral islands. Its nearest neighbors are the Gilbert Islands to the south and the Federated States of Micronesia to the west.
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