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What country is Koror in?
Palau is a state in Oceania. The region in which it is located is called Micronesia. Palau consists of over 350 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The next major states are the Philippines and Indonesia. Palau is only about the size of a small canton in Switzerland.
In total, Palau has about 22,000 inhabitants, so as many as we have a small town. The first inhabitants probably came from islands that today belong to Indonesia. Palau today lives mainly from tourism and fishing. There is little export abroad.
On the island of Koror, most of the inhabitants live. There is also a city there, which is called the same. It is one of two major cities in the country. Only on about ten other islands does anyone live at all. The largest city today is Ngerulmud, at the same time it is the capital.
Palau has two official languages: its own, native language is called “Palauisch” or “Belauisch”, in addition there is English. This is due to the fact that for some time the islands were a kind of colony of the USA. Palau became truly independent only in 1994.
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