Marshall Islands

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English

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Flag of the Marshall Islands
Map of the Marshall Islands

Etymology

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Islands named after John Marshall.

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the Marshall Islands

  1. A country consisting of two archipelagos in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of the Marshall Islands. Capital and largest city: Majuro.
    • 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 23:
      There, in that emptiness, the typhoon is organising. For the last twenty-four hours it’s been shifting west, by now past the Marshall Islands, that fragile tracery of sinking lands so piecemeal and storm-worn.

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Descendants

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  • Japanese: マーシャル諸島 (Māsharu shotō) (calque)

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