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Kolonia Town, looking down from Sokehs Ridge in December 2003. Map of Pohnpei Island showing the municipalities Catholic Belltower Spanish Wall Looking out over Kolonia Town with iconic Sokehs Rock and the Pohnpei State Airport in the distance . Kolonia is a coastal town and the capital of Pohnpei State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).
Major population centers on Pohnpei include Palikir, the FSM's capital, and Kolonia, the capital of Pohnpei State. Pohnpei is the largest island in the FSM, with an area of 334 km 2 (129 sq mi), and a highest point of 782 m (2,566 ft), the most populous with 36,832 people, and the most developed single island in the FSM.
Map of Pohnpei Island showing the municipalities, U is on the upper right. U, also written Uh, is one of the administrative divisions of Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia. [1] U bears the shortest place name in the Federated States of Micronesia, and one of the shortest in the world. [2]
Pohnpei, when it was a district of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, initially contained the island of Kosrae, which was a municipality of the district but in 1977 became a separate district. During World War II the islands were bypassed in the American amphibious campaigns between 1943 and 1945.
Nett is one of the six municipalities located in the main island of Pohnpei. It corresponds to the north-central sector of the island. The population was 6,639 as of 2010. [2] Nett municipality formerly included Kolonia, now a separate administrative division.
Map of Pohnpei Island showing the municipalities. Kitti , also written as Kiti , is one of the twelve administrative divisions of the Micronesian state of Pohnpei . It is located in the southwest of the island of Pohnpei , to the south of Mount Nanlaud .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the Federated States on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Catholic Belltower (also known as the Cathedral of Ponape Belltower [2] and Ponape Belltower) is a historic tower at the Catholic Mission in Kolonia, on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.