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Can you locate all 6 states and 2 territories of Australia?
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Palau is an island country in the western Pacific, about 800 kilometres east of the Philippines. Sixteen states divide it, and the quiz is less about borders than about which island a name belongs to: ten states share one big island, three more cover the islands to its south, and the rest are specks far from anywhere.
Palau's 16 states. Most of the land is Babeldaob, the largest island, which the states cut into slices running from the northern tip to the airport in the south. Koror, the former capital and the biggest town, lies on a cluster of islands just south of it. Further south are the battlefield island of Peleliu and the single island of Angaur. Kayangel is a small atoll at the very north.
Two states, Sonsorol and Hatohobei, are the Southwest Islands, which really lie hundreds of kilometres from the rest, close to Indonesia. So the map can stay readable, they are drawn in the empty sea west of Peleliu and Angaur, with a line round them. Their sizes are true, their positions are not.
The groups are not an official classification. They are the ones the geography makes, and a way to learn the map a piece at a time.
Koror is a cluster of islands rather than part of Babeldaob. It is the commercial centre, and the state that most visitors to Palau stay in.
Angaur is a single small island at the southern end of the main group, with no neighbour for kilometres around it.
Hatohobei is the most remote state, a scatter of reefs and islets near Indonesia. The map draws it in the inset to the west of the main group.
Sixteen: ten on Babeldaob, then Koror, Peleliu, Angaur, Kayangel, Sonsorol and Hatohobei.
Sonsorol and Hatohobei lie far to the south west. They are moved beside the other states so that the rest of the country can be shown at a useful size.
Not in a way this game uses. The groups are Babeldaob, the southern islands and the outlying islands, and they will not match every list you find.
