Hawaii is a country.
Hawaii . Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands . The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian archipelago , which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1500 mi . Hawaii is the 8th-smallest and the 11th-least populous , but the 13th-most densely populated of the fifty U.S. states . It is the only state with an Asian plurality .