Travel - PALAU

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name: Republic

of Palau - Formation: 1994 - Capital: Koror - Population:

19,100 - Total Area: 177 Sq Miles - Languages: Palauan,

English, Japanese, Angaur, Tobi, Sonsorolese (No Official

Language) - Religions: Christian 66%, Modekngei 34% - Ethnic

Mix: Micronesian 87%, Filipino 8%, Chinese 5% - Government:

Non Party Democracy - Currency: US Dollar (100 Cents) -

Literacy Rate: 92% -

Travel - PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name:

Independent State of Papua New Guinea - Formation: 1975 -

Capital: Port Moresby - Population: 5.2 Million - Total Area:

178,703 Sq Miles - Languages: English, Pidgin English, Papuan,

Motu, 750 estimated native languages - Religions: Protestant

60%, Roman Catholic 37%, Other 3% - Ethnic Mix: Melanesian

and Mixed 100% - Government: Multi Party republic - Currency:

Kina (100 Toea) - Literacy Rate: 63.9% -

Travel - SAMOA

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name: Independent

State of Samoa - Formation: 1962 - Capital: Apia - Population:

159,000 - Total Area: 1,104 Sq Miles - Languages: Samoan,

English - Religions: Christian 99%, Other 1% - Ethnic Mix:

Polynesian 90%, Euronesian 9%, Other 1% - Government:

Parliamentary Democracy - Currency: Tala (100 Sene) - Literacy

Rate: 80.2% -

Travel - SOLOMON ISLANDS

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name: Solomon

Islands - Formation: 1978 - Capital: Honiara - Population:

463,000 - Total Area: 10,985 Sq Miles - Languages: English,

Pidgin English, 87 estimated native languages - Religions:

Anglican 34%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical

Church 17%, Methodist 11%, Other 19% - Ethnic Mix:

Melanesian 94%, Other 6% - Government: Parliamentary

Democracy - Currency: Solomon Islands Dollar

(100 cents) - Literacy Rate: 62% -

Travel - TONGA

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name:

Kingdom of Tonga - Formation: 1970 - Capital: Nuku’alofa -

Population: 102,200 - Total Area: 289 Sq Miles - Languages:

Tongan, English - Religions: Free Wesleyan 64%, Roman

Catholic 15%, Other 21% - Ethnic Mix: Polynesian 99%,

Other Pacific Groups & European 1% - Government:

Monarchy - Currency: Pa’anga (Tongan Dollar) (100 Seniti) -

Literacy Rate: 98.5% -

Travel - TUVALU

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name: Tuvalu -

Formation: 1978 - Capital: Fongafale, on Funafuti Atoll -

Population: 10,800 - Total Area: 10 Sq Miles - Languages:

English, Tuvaluan, Kiribati, Other (No Official language) –

Religions: Church of Tuvalu 97%, Seventh-day Adventist 1%,

Baha’i 1%, Other 1% - Ethnic Mix: Polynesian 96%, Other 4% -

Government: Non Party Democracy - Currency: Australian

Dollar & Tuvaluan Dollar (100 cents) - Literacy Rate: 95% -

Travel - VANUATU

Location: Australasia and Oceania - Official Name: Republic

of Vanuatu - Formation: 1980 - Capital: Port Vila - Population:

200,000 - Total Area: 4,710 Sq Miles - Languages: Bislama,

English, French - Religions: Presbyterian 37%, Anglican 15%,

Roman Catholic 15%, Indigenous Beliefs 8%, Seventh-day

Adventist 6%, Other 19% - Ethnic Mix: Melanesian 94%,

Polynesian 3%, Other 3% - Government: Parliamentary

Democracy - Currency: Vatu (100 Centimes) - Literacy

Rate: 64% -