Independence of Marshall Islands

Date: December 22, 1990 • Location: Marshall Islands, International

Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an archipelagic country in Oceania. The sovereign state lies west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.