Vanuatu
Vanuatu (officially Republic of Vanuatu) is a country in Melanesia, with its capital at Port Vila, and is home to roughly 327.8K people.
Its official languages are Bislama, English, French; the currency in circulation is Vanuatu vatu (Vt); people from here are called Ni-Vanuatu.
- »Vanuatu regularly ranks among the countries most exposed to natural disasters.
- »Over a hundred distinct languages are spoken across the islands.
Vanuatu is an archipelago, and that is the whole story of its silhouette: 14 landmasses are big enough to see at map scale, the largest holding only 36% of the territory, and 14 separate pieces in all.
Vanuatu shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Solomon Islands (956 km), Fiji (1,220 km) and Tuvalu (1,550 km), measured centre to centre.
Port Vila sits on Efate and is exposed to some of the most frequent cyclone activity of any capital.
11,292 km² (4,360 sq mi), 159th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Qatar.
Population 327,777, 176th of 198 on file. That averages 29 per km² (75 per sq mi).
The boar's tusk encircling two crossed namele fern fronds stands for prosperity and peace; the Y-shape follows the layout of the islands.