United States Minor Outlying Islands

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The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions:

All of these islands are in the Pacific Ocean except Navassa Island, which is in the Caribbean Sea. Palmyra Atoll is the only incorporated territory of the above. Currently, none of them has any permanent inhabitants. Most recently, the census of population of 1980 gives population figures for three of the islands: Johnston Atoll (327), Midway Atoll (453), and Wake Island (302). The following censuses of 1990 and 2000 only note that there was no indigenous population, which was of course also true for all previous censuses.

They are grouped together entirely as a statistical convenience. They are not administered collectively, nor do they share a single cultural or political history beyond being currently uninhabited islands under the sovereignty of the United States.

They are collectively represented by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code UM. Their common Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is .um.

Atoll/Island	Island Area</br>km²	Lagoon</br>km²	Coordinates	NWR</br>established
Northern Pacific Ocean, scattered isolated islands
Wake Island	7.4	6	19°17′N 166°36′W	2006?
Johnston Atoll	2.52	130	16°45′N 169°31′W	2005?
Northern Pacific Ocean, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Midway Atoll	5.18	40	28°13′N 177°22′W	1998
Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Line Islands
Kingman Reef	0.03	60	6°24′N 162°24′W	2001-01-18
Palmyra Atoll	6.56	15	5°52′N 162°6′W	2001-01-18
Central Pacific Ocean, Central Line Islands
Jarvis Island	4.45	-	0°22′S 160°03′W	1974
Central Pacific Ocean, Northern Phoenix Islands
Baker Island	1.24	-	00°13′N 176°28′W	1974
Howland Island	1.62	-	00°48′N 176°38′W	1974
Caribbean Sea
Navassa Island	5.2	-	18°24′N 075°01′W	1999-09-30
U.S. Minor Outlying Islands	34.2	251

All islands are now National Wildlife Refuges. The last one to be created was Wake Island National Wildlife Refuge (2006).

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