Tuvalu
Tuvalu is a country in Polynesia, with its capital at Funafuti, and is home to roughly 9.6K people.
Its official languages are English, Tuvaluan; the currency in circulation is Australian dollar ($) and Tuvaluan dollar ($); people from here are called Tuvaluan.
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Tuvalu is an archipelago, and that is the whole story of its silhouette: ten landmasses are big enough to see at map scale, the largest holding only 25% of the territory, and 10 separate pieces in all.
Tuvalu shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Kiribati (886 km), Fiji (1,153 km) and Samoa (1,187 km), measured centre to centre.
Funafuti is an atoll whose runway doubles as public space: people use it for football and socialising when no aircraft are due.
22 km² (8 sq mi), 196th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Nauru.
Population 9,646, 197th of 198 on file. That averages 438 per km² (1,136 per sq mi).
Nine stars on light blue, arranged to match the geographic layout of the nine islands as they lie in the ocean. The flag is effectively a map.