Palau

Oceania
Group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines.

		7.4659643N 134.4177246E
President Johnson Toribiong

Capital
Ngerulmud

Government
Democratic presidential republic

Religion

Roman Catholic 41.6%, Protestant 23.3%, Modekngei 8.8% (indigenous to Palau), Seventh-Day Adventist 5.3%, Jehovah's Witness 0.9%, Latter-Day Saints 0.6%, other 3.1%, unspecified or none 16.4%.

Population
20,879

Ethnic group
Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 69.9%, Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, Carolinian 1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, other or unspecified 3.2%.

National Language                   
English, Palauan
          
National Day
October 1, 1994 (from UN Trust Territory)

Anthem
Belau loba klisiich er a kelulu

Currency
US dollar (USD)

Attractions

Belau National Museum,Etpison Museum,  Ngarachamayong Cultural Center,  Palau Aquarium 

Website  

Art & Cultural

The ICON

The Belau National Museum                 The Belau National Museum (BNM) is a non-profit semi-autonomous agency originally was established in the former Japanese Administration Weather Bureau in 1955, and is the oldest museum in Micronesia. The Belau National Museum (BNM) is a dynamic institution for the preservation and promotion of the national heritage, exhibition of natural, cultural, social and historical values, and the development of arts at all levels. The Belau National Museum is an institution of learning established to collect, cultural, preserve and display object of scientific, cultural, historical and aesthetic value. The Museum's purpose is to preserve and protect the nation's cultural heritage through collection, identification, documentation, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of specimens, artifacts and other Palauan cultural property.