[2] Givry, also known as Feneppi, the largest island, is located at the northern end of the atoll.
Kuop is uninhabited; administratively it belongs to Uman municipality.
Kuop was believed to have been discovered by Spanish navigator Alonso de Arellano in 1565.
At the time of World War II during Operation Hailstone on February 4, 1944, the Japanese destroyer Tachikaze ran aground on Kuop Atoll's reef and later sank.
[3] As a desert island, Kuop is officially the largest marine protected area in Micronesia and continues to be right up to the present day.