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Geographical unit:
 
 Entity
 Midway Islands 
 Main prefix
 KH4 
 Time zone
 -11 h 
 Continent
 Australia and Oceania 
 
          Midway Islands          
 
 Midway Islands 

 Midway Islands - (Metropole: United States)
 contains of following DXCC entities:
 
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 Flag 
 Flag description 
The flag of the US is used.
 
          Midway Islands          
 
 Midway Islands 
 Population: 
no indigenous inhabitants(April 2002 est.)
approximately 40 people make up the staff of US Fish and Wildlife Service and their services cooperator living at the atoll
 Geographic
 coordinates: 
28° 13' N, 177° 22' W
 Area total: 
6.2 sq. km
includes Eastern Island, Sand Island, and Spit Island
 Land area: 
6.2 sq. km
 Water area: 
0 sq. km
 Total land
 boundaries: 
0 km
 Coastline: 
15 km
 Elevation
 extremes: 
Pacific Ocean 0 m - unnamed location 13 m
 Name -
 conventional
 long form: 
none
 Name -
 conventional
 short form: 
Midway Islands
 Independence: 
none (part of USA)
 Dependency
 status: 
Unincorporated territory of the US, formerly administered from Washington, DC, by the US Navy, under Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific Division, this facility has been operationally closed since 10 September 1993, on 31 October 1996, through a presidential executive order, the jurisdiction and control of the atoll was transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.
Note: The following US Pacific island territories - Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Palmyra Atoll - constitute the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex and as such are managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of Interior.
 
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