I looked up the same site and here it is:

1. * the Federated States of Micronesia, which consist of four states: Kosrae, Yap, Pohnpei, and Chuuk;
2 * the Republic of the Marshall Islands;
3 * the Republic of Palau;
4 * the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands;
5 * the Republic of Nauru;
6 * the Republic of Kiribati;
7 * the Territory of Guam;
8 * the Territory of Wake Island.
Source(s):
http://www.federatedstatesofmicronesia.org/2007/10/29/the-territories-of-mi...

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Q: What are the eight nation-states in Micronesia ?

A: There's not eight nation-states in Micronesia. There's seven, and some would even say six, depending upon the import one ascribes to a nation's currency.

Truly autonomous and independant are:

1) Federated States of Micronesia,
2) Kiribati,
3) Marshall Islands,
4) Nauru,
5) Palau.

Independant, but not autonomous, is:

6) Northern Mariana Islands. They hold the same status as Puerto Rico, namely "commonwealth", wherein they use American currency, and voluntarily subject to all the same rules of regulation and enforcement that the USA uses to define and defend the value of currency within its own borders. Because the primary job of the CIA is to defend the value of American currency (with all that other stuff it's been known to do being secondary according to the charter), it means NMI gets defense from the CIA, and is not a target. Consequently, some political scientists classify the NMI as defacto American territory.

Then there are two fully American territories:

7.a) Guam, which self-governs to a degree similar to that of an American State, and
7.b) Wake Island, a pure-and-simple territory of the USA, governed from Washington.
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