Three countries, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and Tajikistan, had sites added for the first time.
This includes the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and even Hawaii.
Does anyone know the rigorous standards for getting a flag from the Marshall Islands?
Only five of them still remain on the list: Andorra, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands and Monaco.
Kwajalein atoll, in the Marshall Islands, bristles with radar, optical sensors, telemetry-receiving stations and other ballistic-missile testing equipment.
And I want to thank President Zedkaia of the Marshall Islands, as well as King George Tupou from Tonga, who is here.
This Academy welcomes cadets from all over the world, including two dedicated young men in your class from the Marshall Islands and Romania.
The Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, says rising sea levels could annihilate his country "as effectively as an atomic bomb".
BBC: By BBC News Online Environment Correspondent Alex Kirby
America has also encouraged small countries with large shipping registries such as Liberia, Panama, the Marshall Islands and the Bahamas to mandate prudent self-protection by vessels.
It seems that these mammoth structures are considered ships, and this one was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, a country of roughly 70, 000 people.
They claim the Marshall Islands government has no right to bargain away the rights of indigenous inhabitants of Kwajalein, who were moved by the Americans to nearby Ebeye in the 1960s.
There are two others in the Caribbean (St Kitts-Nevis and St Vincent) and four in the Pacific (Niue, Nauru and the Cook and Marshall Islands), as well as Panama and Liechtenstein.
Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.
As with the Marshall Islands' declaration, the Cook Islands' effort was with the help of the Pew Environment Group, which advocates island nations' involvement because of the vast scope of their territorial waters.
But the Marshall Islands international corporate registry which is actually based in Reston, Virginia provides an online database that shows Auris Marine as having been incorporated on March 7, 2012, and annulled less than three weeks later.
Its scheduled stops -- in places such as the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati -- will be symbolic too, allowing the team to raise awareness of places that are particularly vulnerable to changing environmental conditions, such as rising sea levels.
The company's Pegasus XL rocket was flown to a launch altitude of about 39, 000 feet by a specially configured L-1011 "Stargazer" jetliner taking off from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, near the equator about halfway between Hawaii and Australia.
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