Tuvalu
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 ...
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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....
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Tuvalu
POPULATION 11,146TUVALU CHRISTIAN CHURCH 92 percentSEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST 2.4 percentBAHAI 1.8 percentJEHOVAH'S WITNESS 1.3 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 0.5 percentOTHER 2 percent
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Area: 25.6 sq km (9.9 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 10,600Capital: Government offices in Vaiaku, Fongafale islet, of
Funafuti Atoll
Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by
Governor-Ge...
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Singapore (dpa) - Nothing is as it used to be on the Carteret
Islands in Papua New Guinea.
Only from a distance does the archipelago appear like a South
Pacif...
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Guatemala City (dpa) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
has suspended Panama's national Olympic body over a months-long
dispute over its leadership.
...
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Guatemala City (dpa) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
has suspended Panama's national Olympic body over a months-long
dispute over its leadership.
...
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MALE, Maldives, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Small island states
called on the United Nations on Wednesday to assess whether a
link exists between failure to tackle climate change, which
threatens to wipe t...
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Area: 488 sq km (188 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 20,100Capital: Melekeok (on Babelthuap) from Oct. 1, 2006Head of state and government:
President
Tommy
Remengesau, Jr.
In early September 2006
P...
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(EDS: ADDING QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred Monday in the South Pacific
Ocean off the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with
reports from the area of up...
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(EDS: ADDING CONFIRMED DEATH TOLL. QUOTES, DETAILS)
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated
parts of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, with six
people c...
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