The '''Federated States of Micronesia''' (; abbreviated '''FSM'''), or simply '''Micronesia''', is an island country in Oceania. It consists of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the western Pacific. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands (a combined land area of approximately ) that cover a longitudinal distance of almost  just north of the equator. They lie northeast of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, south of Guam and the Marianas, west of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, east of Palau and the Philippines, about  north of eastern Australia, 3,400 km (2,133 mi) southeast of Japan, and some  southwest of the main islands of the Hawaiian Islands.