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micronesia

/ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/

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What does micronesia mean?

proper noun

  1. A continental region in Oceania in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, consisting of around 2,000 small islands.
  2. The Federated States of Micronesia (a country consisting of about 700 islands in the Micronesia region).

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/ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.ʒə/

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/ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈniː.zi.ə/
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In addition Micronesia earns about $4 million a year in fees from foreign commercial fishing concerns.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1991 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #25
In addition, the US has diplomatic relations with 13 nations that are not in the UN--Andorra, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, San Marino, South Korea, Switzerland, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the Vatican City.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
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It is found amongst nearly all the native tribes of America; the peoples of Malaysia, Melanesia, Australia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, the Dravidian tribes of India; in Africa it is found in the eastern Sahara, the Soudan, the east and west coast, and in the centre of the continent, but not to the exclusion, altogether, of father-right, while in the north the intrusion of Europeans and the followers of Islam has tended to suppress it.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966