Oceania is an insular continent of the Earth constituted by the continental shelf of Australia, the islands of New Guinea and New Zealand, and the coral and volcanic archipelagos of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. All these islands are distributed by the Pacific Ocean. With an area of 9,008,458 km², it is the smallest continent on the planet. See list of countries in Oceania….
Category: Oceania
Palau Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Palau is a State of Oceania (488 km²). Capital: Melekeok. Population: 20,300 (2008). Language: English and Palauan (official). Religion: Catholics 49.4%, Protestants 23.2%, modekngei 8.7%, others 18.7%. Currency unit: US dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: UN and PC. Population Most of the residents of the islands, the Palauans, are of…
Guam Weather and Climate
General & Geographical Location According to abbreviationfinder, Guam is the largest island of the Mariana Archipelago in the western Pacific and is home to around 190,000 inhabitants on around 545 square kilometers. Since it is a so-called non-incorporated US-American territory, the head of state Guams is the incumbent US president. Guam has an internal autonomy,…
New Zealand Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, New Zealand is located in the South Pacific. The island state consists of a north and a south island and more than 700 smaller islands. The 23 kilometers wide Cook Strait separates the two main islands from each other. New Zealand is a total of 268,680 square kilometers. The Tasman…
Tonga Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Tonga is a kingdom in the southern Pacific Ocean. The population is 98% Polynesians. The kingdom includes the Tonga Islands (Friendship Islands), an archipelago of around 150 volcanic and coral islands. The main products are copra, bananas, vanilla and, increasingly, coffee. Tourism is of great importance. History: The Tonga Islands were discovered…
Cook Islands Weather and Climate
General & Geography Abbreviated as CK by abbreviationfinder, the Cook Islands form a group of islands in the southern Pacific, around 3,000 kilometers from New Zealand. They lie in a marine area of over 1.8 million square kilometers and their land area is only 242 square kilometers. The islands have about 20,000 inhabitants, most of…
Sydney, Australia Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, Sydney is located in the southeast of Australia and is the capital of the state of New South Wales. According to the latest calculations, around 4.6 million people live in the urban area, making Sydney the largest city in the country, ahead of Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns. Sydney is located…
New Caledonia Weather and Climate
Geographical location Abbreviated as NC by abbreviationfinder, New Caledonia is a group of islands off Australia’s northeast coast in the South Pacific. The total area of the islands is 18,576 square kilometers, Grande Terre is the largest island in the archipelago with over 16,000 square meters and is home to the capital Nouméa and the…
Melbourne, Australia Weather and Climate
Geographical location After Sydney, Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia and the capital of the state of Victoria. Around 4.25 million people live in an area of 9990 square kilometers, which results in a population density of 425 inhabitants per square kilometer. Short for MEL by abbreviationfinder, Melbourne is divided into 31 Local Government…
Tahiti, French Polynesia Weather and Climate
General & Geographical Location Short for VTA by abbreviationfinder, Tahiti is an island in the southern Pacific and, geographically speaking, belongs to the archipelago of the Society Islands, to be precise, to the islands over the wind. It is the largest island in the archipelago with the largest population. Strictly speaking, this island is a…
French Polynesia Weather and Climate
Geographical location Short for FP by abbreviationfinder, the French overseas territory of French Polynesia, located in the South Pacific, southeast of Australia and New Zealand, consists of 118 islands and atolls, which are combined into a total of five archipelagos. The region extends with a land area of 4,167 km² on a gigantic water surface…
Samoa Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, the island state of Samoa occupies the western part of the Samoan Islands, the eastern part of the South Sea archipelago belongs to the United States of America as an outer area. On an area of 2,842 square kilometers, Samoa is home to around 190,000 inhabitants and thus reaches a…
Bora Bora, French Polynesia Weather and Climate
General & Geography short for BOB by abbreviationfinder, Bora Bora, part of the Society Islands in the overseas territory of French Polynesia, is not even 30 km² in size. Located about 260 km south of Tahiti, the atoll is home to over 10,000 people. About half of them live in Vaitape on the west side…
Fiji Weather and Climate
General & Geography According to COUNTRYAAH, the Republic of Fiji (often just called Fiji in German) is an independent island state in the southern Pacific, which was a British crown colony from 1874 to 1966 and is now run as a parliamentary democracy. Over 330 islands form the Fiji Arichpel with a total area of…
Vanuatu Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Vanuatu is a State of Oceania (12,190 km²). Capital: Port Vila. Population: 233,000 (2008 estimate). Language: bislama, French and English (official). Religion: Protestants 35.7%, Catholics 14.6%, Anglicans 14%, others 35.7%. Monetary unit: vatu. Human Development Index: 0.686 (123rd place). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: Commonwealth, UN and PC. Population The population is mainly…
Australia Weather and Climate
Geographical location Australia is the only country in the world that also fills an entire continent. According to COUNTRYAAH, Australia is south of Indonesia and northwest of New Zealand. About 23.63 million people live in an area of 7.69 million square kilometers. That’s just 3.1 inhabitants per square kilometer. Around 60 percent of Australia’s land…
Tuvalu Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Tuvalu is a State of Oceania (25.63 km²). Capital: Vaiaku. Population: 10,500 (2008 estimate). Language: English and Tuvaluan (official). Religion: Protestants 85.2%, Catholics 1.4%, others 13.4%. Monetary unit: Tuvalu dollar, at par with the Australian dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: Commonwealth, UN and CP, EU associate. Population The average density,…
Solomon Islands Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Solomon Islands is a State of Oceania (28,370 km²). Capital: Honiara. Population: 507,000 (2008 estimate). Language: English (official), pidgin-english. Religion: Protestants 41.8%, Anglicans 33.9%, Catholics 19.1%, others 5.2%. Currency unit: Solomon Islands dollar (100 cents). Human Development Index: 0.591 (134th place). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: Commonwealth, UN, PC and WTO, EU associate….
Nauru Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Nauru is a State of Oceania (21.2 km²). Main center and seat of government: Yaren. Population: 10,163 (2008 estimate). Language: Nauruan (official), English. Religion: Protestants 50.9%, Catholics 27.1%, others 22%. Currency unit: Australian dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: Commonwealth, UN and CP, EU associate. Population Only just over half of…
Kiribati Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Kiribati is a State of Oceania (811 km²). Capital: Bairiki. Population: 97,000 (2008 estimate). Language: English (official), Gilbertese. Religion: Catholics 55.3%, Protestants 35.7%, others 9%. Currency unit: Australian dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: Commonwealth, UN and CP, EU associate. Population The population is of Micronesian stock in the Gilbert, Polynesian…
Northern Territory, Australia Weather and Climate
Geography and general Short for NT by abbreviationfinder, the Northern Territory in Australia extends from the border with South Australia to the uppermost north of the Timor Sea. The least populated state on the whole continent includes Darwin (in the top end) as the most important cities and Alice Springs in the center as the…
Papua New Guinea Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, Papua New Guinea is the third largest island state in the world in terms of area and has around 7.5 million inhabitants. Geographically, it belongs to Australia and is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Papua New Guinea consists of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the west…
Marshall Islands Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Marshall Islands is a State of Oceania (181.4 km²). Capital: Dalap Uliga-Djarrit. Population: 53,240 (2008 estimate). Language: English, Marshallese (official). Religion: Protestants 61.5%, Catholics 7.7%, others 30.8%. Currency unit: US dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: UN and PC. Population Apart from a substantial percentage of whites (6.5%), most of the…
Micronesia Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Micronesia is a State of Oceania (702 km²). Capital: Palikir. Population: 108,026 (2008 estimate). Language: English. Religion: Catholics 40.7%, Protestants 37.3%, others 22%. Currency unit: US dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean. Member of: UN and PC. Population The state has an average density of 154 residents / km². The Micronesians are the…
Hawaii Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, the Hawaii island chain is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, five hours by plane from the Californian metropolis of Los Angeles. The so-called Aloha State is 3,682 kilometers from the mainland and is known worldwide as a paradise for vacationers and surfers due to its climate and…