Palikir

Palikir is a small town on an island called Pohnpei.

Pohnpei is in the Pacific Ocean. It has green mountains and lots of rain.

Palikir is the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, a country of many islands in the Pacific Ocean. It lies on Pohnpei, the country's largest island, which Store norske leksikon says makes up nearly half of all its land.

Palikir is small. Larousse gives an estimate of 6,696 people for 2011. The census counts the municipality of Sokehs, which includes Palikir: 6,647 people in 2010 and 4,903 in 2023.

Larousse: capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, on the island of Pohnpei; 6,696 inhabitants (2011 estimate). Store norske leksikon: Pohnpei (formerly Ponape), with Palikir, is the largest island and makes up nearly half of the federation's land area; its population article lists Palikir with 6,600 among the largest places in 2010. City Population (FSM Division of Statistics / PRISM): municipality 'Palikir (Sokehs)' 3,632 (1980), 5,773 (1994), 6,444 (2000), 6,647 (2010), 4,903 (2023; the page notes that the 2023 census reference day is unclear); Pohnpei state 26,102 (2023).

Look at the big building with gray roofs, the green grass and the cloudy mountain!

Palikir also has a college, where older students learn.

The photographer called this photo 'Palikir 2025-Conference Centre'. It shows a building with gray roofs among lawns and trees, with a forested mountain wrapped in low cloud behind it.

The College of Micronesia–FSM gives Palikir, Pohnpei as its contact address, and says the college had 2,451 students in 2024–25. On Wikidata, the college is about 3 kilometers west-southwest of Palikir's point, and the Liduduhnlap Waterfall about 2.4 kilometers east.

Commons: 'Palikir 2025-Conference Centre', own work by Zykasaa, 5 February 2025, 09:31 (camera point 6.924° N, 158.160° E, facing north-northeast). College of Micronesia-FSM: contact address 'Palikir, Pohnpei, 96941' (with a 'national' e-mail); 2,451 students (2024-25, the whole college). Wikidata, from Palikir's point (Q42751): College of Micronesia-FSM (Q5146775) 2.96 km WSW; Liduduhnlap Waterfall (Q24574992) 2.38 km E, in Nett municipality. The photo's camera point is 2.87 km WNW of the Wikidata point.

Families grow bananas, coconuts and breadfruit.

The only wild mammals that have always lived on the islands are bats!

Store norske leksikon says most farming in the country feeds the farmers' own families: cassava, breadfruit and sweet potatoes, with bananas and coconuts sold abroad. Pepper is grown on Pohnpei. Larousse adds fishing in the lagoons, and in 2024 it counted 36% of the country's people as under 15.

Heavy rain and rich volcanic soil grow thick rainforest on the high islands. The only native mammals are six kinds of bats, and more than 30 kinds of seabirds nest on the islands.

Store norske leksikon (economy): agriculture is almost entirely for self-supply, covers about 60% of the country's needs and employs nearly half of the workforce; bananas and coconuts (copra) for export, cassava, breadfruit and sweet potatoes for own use; pepper is grown on Pohnpei; most people live in traditional extended families. Larousse: food farming (tubers, rice, bananas, coconuts), small-scale lagoon fishing, copra; under-15s 36% (2024). Store norske leksikon (main article): dense rainforest on the higher islands; six native bat species are the only native mammals; more than 30 breeding seabird species; more than 1,000 fish species in the sea.