{"id":3659,"count":14,"description":"Palau is located in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of hundreds of small islets. On the world map, Palau can be found about 800 kilometers east of the Philippines and 3,200 kilometers south of Japan. The Palau archipelago consists of 356 islands in total, the largest of which is Babeldaob with 396 km\u00b2. Only eleven of the islands are inhabited. As a travel destination, Palau is still relatively unknown to Europeans - 75 percent of tourists come mainly from Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The remaining tourists come from the USA, Australia, the Philippines and only a small part from Europe. The island state can be assigned to the island region Micronesia. The term Micronesia stands for several independent countries in the Pacific, which form an \"archipelago\" of over 2,000 tropical islands and atolls over a distance of 4,000 kilometres. The nine archipelagos of Micronesia, each of which has its own language, culture and history, consist of Guam, Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands and Kiribati, and the archipelago of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae, grouped together as the Caroline Islands. Palau is best known as one of the most beautiful dive sites in the world through the Rock Islands. The Rock Islands are tropically overgrown mini-islands that rise out of the sea like mushrooms. During a boat trip through this island world or during a sightseeing flight, together with the turquoise-green sea, breathtaking sights arise.","link":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/oceania\/island-palau","name":"Palau","slug":"island-palau","taxonomy":"category","parent":3651,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3651"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}