The Cook Islands are an archipelago of 15 islands in the South Pacific Ocean between French Polynesia and Fiji, named after Captain James Cook, who explored the South Pacific and discovered many islands, and is associated with New Zealand in free association and part of the Kingdom of New Zealand in the Commonwealth of Nations.The …
The Kingdom of Tonga, commonly known as Tonga, is an island nation of 172 islands of various sizes located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 650 km from Fiji in the west and 1770 km from New Zealand in the southwest, with an area of about 748 square kilometers and a population of 103,000. It became …
The Republic of Fiji, commonly known as Fiji, is an archipelagic nation located in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga, and south of Tuvalu, consisting of 330 islands (half are uninhabited, while the two main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu account for 87% of the country’s population). The name …
The Independent State of Samoa, or Samoa for short, is a South Pacific island nation located approximately halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand, west of American Samoa, and at the center of the Polynesian Islands. It has a land area of 2,831 square kilometers. The islands are mountainous and volcanic, with Mount Sirisili, the highest …
Tuvalu is an island nation consisting of nine atolls of coral islands located in the South Pacific Ocean, part of Oceania. Because of its extremely low topography, with the highest point only four meters above sea level, sea level rise caused by the greenhouse effect poses a serious threat to Tuvalu, which is the country …
The Republic of Kiribati, commonly known as Kiribati, is an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, divided into three archipelagos: the Gilbert Islands, the Phoenix Islands and the Lane Islands, with 32 atolls and one coral island scattered over 3,800 square kilometers of sea on the equator, and the world’s largest marine protected area. …
The Republic of Vanuatu, or Vanuatu for short, is located in the western part of the South Pacific Ocean and is a Melanesian archipelago consisting of 83 islands (68 of which are inhabited). The largest island is Santo Island (3974 km2), which has a tropical maritime climate with an average annual precipitation of 1600 mm. …
The Republic of Nauru, or Nauru for short, is an island nation located in the Micronesian archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean. The closest country is Barnabas Island in Kiribati, about 300 kilometers east of Nauru. With an area of 21.3 square kilometers, Nauru is the smallest island nation in the world and the third …
The Republic of Palau, commonly known as Palau, is an island nation located in the Western Pacific Ocean. The country has about 340 islands and is part of the western chain of the Caroline Islands in the Micronesian archipelago, with a total area of 459 square kilometers. The most populous island is Koror. The capital, …
The Republic of the Marshall Islands, commonly known as the Marshall Islands and the Marshall Islands, is an island nation located in the North Pacific Ocean. The Marshall Islands is part of the Micronesian archipelago, with a land area of 181 square kilometers and a sea area of over two million square kilometers, and a …
