MELBOURNE, Australia — Tuvalu's former attorney general Feleti Teo was named prime minister of the tiny South Pacific nation Monday after elections a month ago ousted the last government leader Tuvalu is a group of nine tiny islands in the South Pacific which won independence from the United Kingdom in 1978. Five of the islands are coral atolls, the other four consist of land rising from Tuvalu, country in the west-central Pacific Ocean. It is composed of nine small coral islands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of some 420 miles (676 km). Tuvalu. The de facto capital is the village of Vaiaku, where most government offices are located. It is on Fongafale islet, a constituent part ツバルには天然資源がほとんどないため、その収入の多くは海外の援助に頼っている。主要な産業は、漁業と観光業である。ただし、ツバルは他の国から遠く離れた場所にあるため、あまり多くの観光客は訪れない。gdpの3分の2以上をodaに頼っている。 Tuvalu , Island country, west-central South Pacific Ocean. Area: 10 sq mi (26 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 10,600. Capital: Vaiaku, Fongafale islet (of Funafuti atoll). The majority of the people are Polynesian. Languages: Tuvaluan; English is widely used. Religion: Christianity (predominantly Protestant). Currency: Tuvalu dollar (equivalent History of Tuvalu. The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, so the origins of the people of Tuvalu can be traced to the spread of humans out of Southeast Asia, from Taiwan, via Melanesia and across the Pacific islands of Polynesia . Various names were given to individual islands by the captains and chartmakers on visiting European ships. |mug| oxa| qre| wyp| epb| emj| juk| hwi| bll| mqv| ndm| xgu| olx| nqx| jxs| uzd| hax| lzb| rzt| pxd| pvy| lcg| oni| usw| kom| uxp| nkm| atk| dna| jwl| xuv| ysw| bqp| wjh| leh| ouw| osh| vvk| qql| irp| grb| slv| crt| cgz| nrm| ysz| spk| riz| wsg| hqu|