Category INDEPENDENT

Tuvalu is a Polynesian island country in the central Pacific Ocean, made up of nine coral island units — six true atolls and three reef islands — with a combined land area of roughly 26 square kilometers. Despite this tiny…

Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom scattered across the southwestern Pacific Ocean, built from more than 170 islands that range from steep volcanic cones to flat coral platforms barely above sea level. That contrast is not an accident of geology —…

Samoa occupies a small but significant place in the vast expanse of the South Pacific Ocean. As an independent Polynesian nation built from volcanic rock and shaped by centuries of Pacific currents, Samoa geography tells a story of fire, water,…