thumb|Majuro Atoll map '''Rairok''' (Marshallese: '''{{lang|mh|Rairōk}}''', {{IPAc-mh|rahyiyr&k}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trussel2.com/MOD/LocM.htm|title=Marshallese-English Dictionary - Place Name Index|website=www.trussel2.com}}</ref>) is a town in the Marshall Islands. It is located on the southeastern side Majuro Atoll, between Delap in the east and Ajeltake in the west.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web | title=Home {{!}} Statistics for Development Division | url=http://www.spc.int/prism/country/mh/stats/Publications/Popatlas/Community%20Survey.pdf | access-date=2025-02-16 | website=www.spc.int}}</ref>
On January 30, 1944, United States troops invaded and built a large base, Naval Base Majuro. <ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://marshall.csu.edu.au/Marshalls/html/WWII/Majuro_Base.html|title=Marshall Islands -- Building the Navy's Bases -- Majuro Naval Base|website=marshall.csu.edu.au|date=9 October 2005 }}</ref><ref>[https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/marshall_majuro_atoll.html Majuro Atoll] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315041149/https://pacificwrecks.com/provinces/marshall_majuro_atoll.html |date=2023-03-15 }}''pacificwrecks.com''</ref>
== Demographics == Population about 2000 with half under the age of 15. As of the census of 1988, the population numbered 2021, on a land area of 0.622 km<sup>2</sup> (62.2 hectares).<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.pacificdisaster.net/pdnadmin/data/original/spennemann-majuro.pdf | title=Non-traditional settlement patterns and typhoon hazard on contemporary Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands | accessdate=2011-08-02 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422155049/http://www.pacificdisaster.net/pdnadmin/data/original/spennemann-majuro.pdf | archivedate=2012-04-22}}</ref> Almost half of the population (924 out of 2021) were under the age of 15.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.paddle.usp.ac.fj/cgi-bin/paddle?e=d-010off-paddle--00-1--0---0-10-TX--4-------0-11l--11-en-50---20-png---10-3-1-000--0-0-11-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=rmi010&gg=1|title=PADDLE|access-date=2011-08-02|archive-date=2012-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328104129/http://www.paddle.usp.ac.fj/cgi-bin/paddle?e=d-010off-paddle--00-1--0---0-10-TX--4-------0-11l--11-en-50---20-png---10-3-1-000--0-0-11-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=rmi010&gg=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1999, the population count was 3846,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.citypopulation.de/Marshall.html| title = Marshall Islands: Atolls & Major Places - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information}}</ref> and for 2009, the population was estimated at 6390.<ref>{{Cite web| title=2009 Majuro & Ebeye - Water Survey - Results to Date | url=http://www.mecrmi.net/Water%20reports/Water%20Survey%20and%20House%20listing%20Long%20Island%20and%20Ajeltake%20June%2009.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201035904/http://www.mecrmi.net/Water%20reports/Water%20Survey%20and%20House%20listing%20Long%20Island%20and%20Ajeltake%20June%2009.pdf | archive-date=2012-02-01}}</ref> There is an elementary school, a small dry goods store and a bus stop. It overlooks the inner bay of the Majuro Atoll.
Marshall Islands International Airport, located immediately west of Rairok Islet, is considered part of the town.<ref name="auto1"/> It had been built on Anenelibw and Lokojbar islets.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Vegetation and Urbanization on Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands | url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1520/v31n4-321-333.pdf?sequence=1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330005428/http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/1520/v31n4-321-333.pdf?sequence=1 | archive-date=2012-03-30}}</ref>
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