Federated States of Micronesia

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is a grouping of 607 small islands in the Western Pacific about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii, lying just above the Equator. Generally speaking, FSM comprises what is known as the Eastern and Western Caroline Islands. While the country's total land area amounts to only 270.8 square miles, it occupies more than one million square miles of the Pacific Ocean, and ranges 1,700 miles from East (Kosrae) to West (Yap). Each of the four States (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap) centers around one or more "high islands," and all but Kosrae include numerous atolls. 108,000 people (July 2008 est.) live in the FSM. Complete information on the FSM is available here.

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• FY10 Performeters Now Available

  13 January 2012 by Jason (in American Samoa, Chuuk, CNMI, FSM, Guam, Kosrae, Palau, Performeter, Pohnpei, Yap)

  FY10 Performeter Reports have been released for nine insular areas.  These Performeters are based on the FY10 financial statements, and include American Samoa, FSM, Guam, and the Marshalls Islands. In addition, … [more]

• PITI-VITI and OIA Support Economics in Palau

  6 January 2012 by Jason (in Economics, FSM, FSM-Econ, Palau, Palau-Econ, RMI, RMI-Econ)

  The Graduate School USA’s annual statistical and economic reporting efforts have focused on the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands for the last five years. … [more]

• FY09 Performeters Released for 11 Insular Areas

  7 February 2011 by Jason (in American Samoa, CNMI, FSM, Guam, News, Palau, Performeter, RMI)

  Performeter Reports have been released for eleven insular areas.  These Performeters are based on the FY09 financial statements, and new reports have been released for American Samoa, CNMI, FSM, Guam, the … [more]

• Ivan Alafonso Gives ELDP 2009 Class Speech

  20 September 2009 by Jason (in ELDP, FSM)

  Ivan “Jimbo” Alafonso gave closing remarks on behalf of the inaugural graduating class of the Executive Leadership Development Program in Honolulu, Hawaii on September 18, 2009. Both the full text … [more]