April 25, 2022 Brief History of Australia Aborigines moved to Australia from Asia at least 50 thousand years ago. Before the arrival of Europeans, they used stone tools, hunted and gathered…
December 26, 2021 Australia Armed Forces Army and Air Force. – The military organization of Australia has its own characteristics which greatly differentiate it from that of other states with…
November 30, 2021 Suva, Fiji According to abbreviationfinder, Suva is the capital and the commercial and political center of the Fiji Islands. The Suva peninsula is located southeast of the…
November 30, 2021 Palau State Overview Government and politics According to abbreviationfinder, the country of Palau has a type of constitutional government, in free association with the United States, through the Treaty of…
November 29, 2021 Papeete, French Polynesia According to abbreviationfinder, Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia, the gateway to the beautiful archipelago of Tahiti, whose 118 islands are spread over…
November 29, 2021 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea According to abbreviationfinder, Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea, and is located in the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the…
November 28, 2021 Pitcairn Islands Overview The Pitcairn Islands – officially British overseas territory Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands – make up an archipelago located in Polynesia, in Oceania. See Pitcairn Islands facts. The archipelago is made up of…
November 28, 2021 Guam Overview According to abbreviationfinder, Guam is an island in the western Pacific, belonging to the United States as unincorporated territory. It is one of the 16 non-autonomous territories under the…
November 27, 2021 Tarawa, Kiribati According to abbreviationfinder, Tarawa is an atoll located in the central Pacific Ocean and formerly the capital of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. South…
November 27, 2021 Saipan Overview Saipan is an island of the US insular Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. It constitutes an archipelago of 15 islands located in the western Pacific…
November 26, 2021 Apia, Samoa According to abbreviationfinder, Apia is the capital of Western Samoa, which is located on the island of Upolu, a territory surrounded by villages with a special…
November 26, 2021 Majuro, Marshall Islands According to abbreviationfinder, Majuro is the capital of the Marshall Islands, and it is located on one of the atolls of the archipelago. The orography of this atoll is made…
November 25, 2021 Nauru State Overview The Republic of Nauru (Ripubrikin Naoero in Nauru; Republic of Nauru in English) is a state of Micronesia, located in the central Pacific Ocean, comprising…
November 25, 2021 Solomon Islands State Overview According to abbreviationfinder, Solomon Islands is a state located in Oceania, whose territory is made up of more than 990 islands belonging to Melanesia, located east of Papua…
November 24, 2021 Tokelau History and Geography According to abbreviationfinder, Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand, consisting of three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. The United Nations General…
November 24, 2021 New Caledonia State Overview According to abbreviationfinder, New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie, Kanaky) is a French territory of 18,575 km², composed of a main island and several smaller islands, in the…
November 24, 2021 Canberra, Australia According to abbreviationfinder, Canberra is the capital of Australia and has a population of over 345,000 residents. The name of Canberra derives from the aboriginal word “kanberra” and…
November 23, 2021 Tonga State Overview According to abbreviationfinder, Tonga is a state of Oceania, made up of 169 islands located east of Australia of which 96 are inhabited, are divided into three…
November 23, 2021 Christmas Islands Overview There are five islands called Christmas Islands in the world, distributed over three oceans and as many continents. Two of them are in the vicinity…
November 23, 2021 Wellington, New Zealand According to abbreviationfinder, Wellington, named Te Whanganui-a-Tara by the Maori, is the capital of New Zealand. It is located at the southern end of the…
November 22, 2021 Niue State Overview According to abbreviationfinder, Niue is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, known as the Rock of Polynesia. Although self-governing, it maintains a status…
November 22, 2021 Cook Islands Overview According to abbreviationfinder, the Cook Islands is an archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean. They are located between Hawaii and New Zealand. History The first to settle here…
November 22, 2021 Tuvalu State Overview According to abbreviationfinder, Tuvalu is an island located in the Pacific Ocean, approximately halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The closest countries to Tuvalu are Kiribati, Samoa, and Fiji. It consists of 4 coral reefs…
November 21, 2021 American Samoa Overview According to abbreviationfinder, American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga and south of Tokelau and the Pacific Ocean, is frequently…
November 21, 2021 Palikir, Micronesia According to abbreviationfinder, Palikir is the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia and is made up of four island groups formerly known as the Caroline Islands,…
November 21, 2021 Northern Mariana Islands Overview Often called the Marianas and historically Islands of the Thieves, Northern Mariana Islands are a group of 14 islands located between Hawaii and the Philippines, including Saipan, Rota and Tinian, among…
November 21, 2021 Vanuatu State Overview In the Melanesian language, Vanuatu means “the island that rises above the sea”, it occupies the archipelago of the New Hebrides. According to abbreviationfinder, Vanuatu is…
November 20, 2021 Wallis and Futuna Overview According to abbreviationfinder, the Collectivity of Wallis and Futuna (French: Collectivité de Wallis et Futuna) is a group of three tropical islands of volcanic origin located in…
October 13, 2021 Australia and Melbourne Geography Australia consists predominantly of flat tabular countries, which are only sporadically covered by island mountains (e.g. Ayers Rock) and low mountain ranges. On…
October 2, 2021 APEC AT A GLANCE SPOTLIGHT: On November 20, 2020, the heads of state and government of the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum (APEC) met, for the…