{"id":68353,"date":"2025-10-12T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=68353"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:21:37","slug":"palau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/palau\/","title":{"rendered":"Palau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Palau Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palau recently hosted the world\u2019s first-ever live underwater interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Palau<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>island nation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the <\/span><b>western Pacific Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of a tightly clustered archipelago of approximately <\/span><b>300 islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a total land area of 458 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is geographically <\/span><b>positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palau shares<\/span><b> maritime borders <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the Federated States of <\/span><b>Micronesia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the east, with <\/span><b>Indonesia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the south, with <\/span><b>Philippines <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the west, and with the international waters to the north.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Located on Babeldaob<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (the<\/span><b> largest island of Palau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) <\/span><b>is Ngerulmud \u2013 the capital of Palau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is the <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">world\u2019s least populous capital city.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Koror <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the <\/span><b>largest and the most populous city<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Palau. It acts as the main commercial center of Palau.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Palauan, English, plus Japanese, Sonsorolese, and Tobian.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palau <\/span><b>became independent in 1994, after being part of a United Nations trust territory administered by the US.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> relies on financial aid from the US<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, provided under a Compact of Free Association, which gives the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">US responsibility for Palau&#8217;s defence and the right to maintain military bases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> there.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsonair.gov.in\/palau-hosts-worlds-first-live-underwater-interview-to-raise-ocean-awareness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NOA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palau is a small Pacific island nation with 300 islands, Ngerulmud as its capital, Koror as its main city, and strategic ties with the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":68758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3206,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-68353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-palau","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}