Marshall Islands
After almost four decades
under US administration as the easternmost
part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Marshall
Islands attained independence in 1986 under a Compact of Free
Association. Compensation claims continue as a result of US nuclear
testing on some of the atolls between 1947 and 1962. The Marshall
Islands hosts the US Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) Reagan Missile Test
Site, a key installation in the US missile defense network. Its languages are:
Marshallese (official) 98.2%, other languages 1.8%.
note: English (official), widely spoken as a second
language.
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