Tuvalu Tuvalu is a small Pacific Islands nation that consists of nine atolls, with a total landmass of only 26 square kilometers (10 square miles). There are about 10,000 people living in the country. Tuvalu is a full member of the Commonwealth of the...

CAPITAL: Funafuti FLAG: The national flag has the Union Jack in the upper quarter nearest the hoist; nine yellow stars on a light blue field are arranged in the same pattern as Tuvalu's nine islands. ANTHEM: Tuvalu mo te Atua (Tuvalu for the...

Tuvalu POPULATION 11,146 TUVALU CHRISTIAN CHURCH 92 percent SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 2.4 percent BAHAI 1.8 percent JEHOVAH'S WITNESS 1.3 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 0.5 percent OTHER 2 percent Country Overview Introduction The nation of Tuvalu, part of...

Tuvalu (IPA: [t:u:'valu]), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Samoa and Fiji. Comprising four reef islands and five...

THE only means of getting around the eight inhabited islands of the Pacific state of Tuvalu is a spirited but ancient ship called Nivaga. Anyone wanting to reach the capital, Funafuti, waits for the ship to call on its pottering odyssey: children attending...

In this special segment, Bikenibeu Paeniu, Tuvalu Minister for Finance, Planning, and Industries, provides his own account of some events analyzed by Tauaasa Taafaki in a 2004-2006 review of Tuvalu (The Contemporary Pacific 19 (1): 276-286 [2007]). In the review, Taafaki discussed...