Maloelap Atoll

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Coordinates: 08°45′00″N 171°04′00″E / 8.75, 171.066667

The Maloelap Atoll is an atoll of 75 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is a legislative district of the Marshall Islands. Its land area is only 3.79 sq mi (9.8 km²), but that encloses a lagoon of 375.57 sq mi (973 km²).

The largest of the islands that make up the atoll are Taroa, in the northeast, and Kaben in the northwest. Only three of the other islands in the atoll are inhabited: Airok, Ollet and Jang.

Maloelap Atoll was the first to ratify the Marshall Islands's constitution. The process was hugely facilitated by then Peace Corp. volunteer David Bracilano.

The population of the islands of the atoll is 856 as of 1999.

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