Which island nation has Majuro as its capital and largest city?

The island nation with Majuro as its capital and largest city is the Marshall Islands.

Majuro is both a coral atoll and the political and population center of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It lies in the Ratak, or “Sunrise,” Chain of the country’s two principal island groups. The atoll consists of narrow islets, called motus, wrapped around a broad lagoon; the main urban area is formed by the connected communities of Delap, Uliga, and Djarrit.

People have lived in the Marshall Islands for at least 2,000 years. Majuro later became a site of Protestant missionary activity and copra trading in the nineteenth century. Germany annexed the atoll in 1885, followed by Japanese administration and then United States control after the Second World War.

Majuro became the capital when the Marshall Islands emerged as a separate republic after breaking away from the Federated States of Micronesia in 1978. The country’s former administrative center was Jaluit. A frequent confusion is treating “Micronesia” as the answer: the Federated States of Micronesia is a different country, while the Marshall Islands is its own island nation.