Majuro, Marshall Islands
Majuro rˠo is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Most of the population is Christian and follow the United Christ Assembly of God and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
About Majuro, Marshall Islands in brief
Majuro rˠo is the capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It has a tropical trade wind climate, with an average temperature of 27 °C. Majuro has been inhabited by humans for at least 2,000 years and was first settled by the Austronesian ancestors of the modern day Marshallese people. The main population center, Delap-Uliga-Djarrit, is made up of three contiguous motus and has a population of 20,301 people as of 2012. Most of the population is Christian and follow the United Christ Assembly of God and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Majuro was captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1914 during World War I and mandated to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations in 1920.
The island then became a part of the Japanese mandated territory of the South Seas Mandate; although the Japanese had established a government in the Mandate, local affairs were mostly left in the hands of traditional local leaders until the start of World War II. On January 30, 1944, United States Armed Forces invaded, but found that Japanese forces had evacuated their fortifications to Kwajalein and Enewetak about a year earlier. With his capture, the islands were secured. This gave the U.S. Navy use of one of the largest anchorages in the Central Pacific. After the Marshall islands broke away from the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978, Majuro became the new country’s capital and meeting place of the Nitijeļā.
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