Complex sentence: It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than 2000 kilometres (1245 miles) in the South Pacific Ocean, yet its total land area is only 4167 square kilometres (1609 square miles).
Split into simpler sentences: It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than 2000 kilometres (1245 miles) in the South Pacific Ocean. Yet, its total land mass only accounts for 4167 square kilometres (1609 square miles).