Marshall Islands

FORUM MEMBERSHIP: 1987
INDEPENDENCE DAY: 21 October 1986
CAPITAL: Majuro
AREA: 180 sq km
EEZ: 2.1 million sq km
POPULATION: 55,000 (2015)
LANGUAGE: English, Marshallese
CURRENCY: United States Dollar
ECONOMY: Tourism, subsistence agriculture, fisheries
STATUS: Constitutional government in free association with the US.
HEAD OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT: President HE David Kabua
WEBSITE: www.rmi-op.net