In 1999, the total population of the Ratak islands was 30,925.

[citation needed] The atolls and isolated islands in the chain are: The Ratak Chain forms a continuous chain of seamounts with the Gilbert Islands to the south, which are part of Kiribati.

The Ratak Chain is home to the Ratak dialect (or eastern dialect) of the Marshallese language.

The two dialects differ mainly in lexicon and in certain regular phonological reflexes.

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