Map of Micronesia

Micronesia is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 6.9° N, 158.2° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Micronesia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Micronesia is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Micronesia covers about 702 km² (271 sq mi). That makes it the 179th-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 105,564, the 184th-largest in the world and the 9th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Micronesia has an average population density of about 150 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 9th by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Palikir, and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00.

Micronesia carries the ISO country codes FM and FSM, dials on the international calling code +691 and uses the .fm internet domain.

Micronesia has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 6.9° N, 158.2° E places it about 768 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 6.9° N, 158.2° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Micronesia within Oceania. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Palikir. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Micronesia lies about 768 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Micronesia spans 2 time zones, from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +691 and websites commonly use the .fm internet domain.

In short, Micronesia is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Palikir. Micronesia has a population of about 105,564 and covers around 702 km² (271 sq mi), ranking it 184th in the world by population and 179th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Micronesia.

The flag of Micronesia has a light blue field, at the center of which are four five-pointed white stars arranged in the shape of a diamond.

The flag of Micronesia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.