

Micronesia, from the ancient Greek μικρος (small) and νησος
(island), is the name of a region in the Pacific Ocean. The
Philippines lie to the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua
New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the
south-east and east. This region of Oceania consists of many
hundreds of small islands spread over a large region of the
western Pacific. The only empire known to have originated in
Micronesia was based in Yap. The term "Micronesia" was first
proposed to distinguish the region in 1831 by Jules Dumont
d'Urville; before this the term "Polynesia" was in use to
generally describe the islands of the Pacific.
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