Ratak
Chain of Islands and atolls in the Pacific / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ratak Chain (Ratak [rˠɑːdˠɑk],[1] Marshallese for 'sunrise') is a chain of islands and atolls within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ratak means "sunrise". It lies to the east of the country's other island chain, the Ralik Chain. In 1999, the total population of the Ratak islands was 30,925.[citation needed]
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The atolls and isolated islands in the chain are:
The Ratak Chain forms a continuous chain of seamounts with the Gilbert Islands to the south, which are part of Kiribati.