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Majuro

American  
[muh-joor-oh] / məˈdʒʊər oʊ /

noun

  1. the capital island of the Marshall Islands. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).


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Livai says there are about 6,000 children who live on Majuro Atoll — the largest and capital island — and about 12,000 children are spread across all of the islands.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023

“It’s because of China. We’re not naive,” Marshallese Foreign Minister Kitlang Kabua said in an interview at a restaurant close to the country’s parliament in the capital of Majuro.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023

The population is highly vaccinated: 72 percent are fully vaccinated in Majuro, and 61 percent have boosters, according to government data.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

For her colleagues in Majuro, the Marshall Islands’ capital, it was 2 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2021

I met in Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this he had learned in the German firm in Jaluit, yet did not speak one word of German.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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