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The Marshall Islands is a country of coral atolls scattered across about two million square kilometres of the central Pacific, with barely 180 square kilometres of dry land among them. Its 24 municipalities are almost all one atoll or one island each, and nobody places a town without first naming the atoll it sits on, so the municipality is the unit that a Marshallese address, a flight and a ferry timetable are all written in.
Each municipality is drawn as the outline of its islets, the area the name covers on the water rather than the few square kilometres of land inside it. The real atolls are rings of reef with narrow islets along the rim, so the outline is close to the reef. Most are a few tenths of a degree across, on a map that is twelve degrees wide, which is why the smallest carry a circle to tap on.
The country lies along two parallel chains, and the groups follow them. Ralik, the sunset chain, is the western one, and Ratak, the sunrise chain, is the eastern one. The capital, Majuro, is at the south end of the Ratak chain, and the Ralik chain holds Kwajalein, whose lagoon is among the largest in the world. Enewetak sits far out to the northwest, with its municipality also holding Ujelang, a separate atoll well to the west that the map reaches too.
Majuro is a long, thin atoll in the southeast of the country, and it holds the capital, the airport and about half of the population. Arno lies just to its east.
Kwajalein is the largest atoll by lagoon area and sits in the middle of the Ralik chain, with most of its islets strung along a rim about 100 kilometres long.
Enewetak is the northwestern outpost of the chain, with Ujelang, the other piece of the same municipality, standing alone to the southwest.
24. They are the atolls and single islands that have a local government, and the game draws all of them.
The two chains the country is laid out along: Ralik in the west and Ratak in the east. The Marshallese names are usually translated as sunset and sunrise.
The islets of an atoll are slivers of land a few hundred metres wide. The game draws the water they enclose, so that the shape is large enough to point at.
No. The Marshall Islands claims Wake Island, which lies about 3,000 kilometres north of the rest of the country, but the game draws only the municipalities.
