Koror is the provisional capital of Palau, located in the Caroline Island group of the Western Pacific Ocean  approximately 550 miles east of the Phillippine Islands and 1300 miles north of Australia.

“A spectacular 400-mile long string of pearls laid across the Pacific” is a phrase often used to describe the Palau Islands. Only eight of the islands, however, are inhabited, and of the entire Palauan population of approximately 15,000, the majority live in Koror.