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Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo) [7] is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north ...
Tuvalu (/ t uː ˈ v ɑː l uː / ⓘ too-VAH-loo) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of ...
[158] [159] The Tuvalu Media Corporation (TMC) was a government-owned corporation established in 1999 to take over the radio and print based publications of the BIO.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Tuvalu on Monday announced former attorney general and fisheries official Feleti Teo as its new prime minister, after he was elected unopposed by lawmakers in the Pacific Islands ...
Voting started Friday in the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, in a national election that could reverberate from China to Australia. With just over 11,500 people, Tuvalu is one of the ...
The Constitution of Tuvalu Act 2023, [4] [5] further addressed the role of Tuvaluan culture, and also referred to the climate crisis, and Tuvalu’s statehood and national boundaries. [ 4 ] Tuvalu follows the Westminster system of representative democracy although Tuvalu is a non-partisan democracy and elections in Tuvalu take place without ...
The location of Tuvalu An enlargeable map of Tuvalu. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tuvalu: . Tuvalu (formerly known as the Ellice Islands) – sovereign Polynesian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaiʻi and Australia. [1]
The islands of Tuvalu are spread out between the latitude of 5° to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line. [4] The name, Tuvalu, means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan. The Coral reefs of Tuvalu consists of three reef islands and six atolls, containing approximately 710 km 2 (270 sq mi) of reef ...