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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 206
7,000 (2009)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 209
14,500 (2009)
Telephone system
General assessment NA
Domestic Fixed-line and mobile-cellular services available with a combined subscribership of roughly 100 per 100 persons International Country code - 680; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2008) Broadcast media
No TV stations; a cable TV network covers the major islands and provides access to rebroadcasts, on a delayed basis, of a number of US stations as well as access to a number of real-time satellite TV channels; about a half dozen radio stations with 1 government-owned (2009) Internet country code
.pw
Internet hosts World Ranking: 229
4 (2010)
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Palau (Koror):
 
GPS points from Palau (Koror)
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After three decades as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific under US administration, this westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands opted for independence in 1978 rather than join the Federated States of Micronesia. A Compact of Free Association with the US was approved in 1986 but not ratified until 1993. It entered into force the following year when the islands gained independence.