Helmut Grill has forwarded an article about the creation of a new state. On 2001-10-01, the Faichuk Commission for Statehood adopted a resolution to separate from Chuuk state. The government of Federated States of Micronesia has apparently ignored this resolution. The Statehood Commission threatens to act unilaterally, to the extent of "finding its own political status with a different nation of the world", if Micronesia doesn't respond by 2001-11-22. Faichuk (sometimes spelled Faichuuk) is the western part of Chuuk Lagoon, including the islands of Tol, Udot, Polle, and Patta. It has been seeking separate status for decades.
|Short name||FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA|
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Germany bought almost all of Micronesia--the Caroline, Mariana (excluding Guam), and Marshall Islands--from Spain in the 1890s. The islands were taken by Japan during World War I, and mandated to Japan in 1920 by the League of Nations. The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was created on 1947-04-02 and granted in trust to the United States. It contained the islands which are now in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands. On 1979-05-10, following a vote on self-government, the F.S.M. was formed. It contained most of the Caroline Island group. The four states of the F.S.M. had previously been four of the seven districts of the T.T.P.I. On 1986-11-03, it became a freely associated state of the United States, a status which falls somewhere between a protectorate and an independent country.
Note: Oceania is said to consist of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. All of these names are unofficial, so their extent is determined just by convention. The three divisions are based on the ethnicity of the native inhabitants. In some people's usage Oceania also includes the Malay Archipelago (Indonesia), and even (rarely) Australia and New Zealand.
Descriptive: union of island groups in Micronesia (Greek mikros nesos: small island)
Federated States of Micronesia is divided into four states.
The codes for Federated States of Micronesia in FIPS PUB 5-2 are
FM (alpha) and
64 (numeric). When
the FIPS 5-2 and 6-4 codes are concatenated, as in
64040 for Pohnpei, the result is a code that uniquely identifies
a county-equivalent unit in the United States.
Micronesia uses five-digit postal codes from the U.S. system. They all have the form 9694x.
See the Municipalities of the Federated States of Micronesia page.
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