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Vanuatu

VU / VUT   -16.6°, 168.0°

Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is an archipelagic country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 km (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 540 km (340 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji.

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People are called
Ni-Vanuatu
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+678
Capital
Port Vila
Population
300,019
Area
12,190 km2
Climate
Tropical
Government
Parliamentary republic
Currency
Vanuatu vatus
Languages
Indigenous languages 82.6%, Bislama 14.5%, English 2.1%
Sells
fish, ships, perfume plants, wood
Sells to
Thailand 49%, Japan 19%, Cote d'Ivoire 10%
Land borders
None
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+678
Founded
1980
Hemisphere
Southern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Ni-Vanuatu

These are English demonyms for people from Vanuatu. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

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BEYOND THE MAP

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Bislamaofficial
14.5%
Englishofficial
2.1%
Frenchofficial
0.8%

Largest cities

Port-Vila 35,901

Climate and geography

tropical; moderated by southeast trade winds from May to October; moderate rainfall from November to April; may be affected by cyclones from December to April

Climate zone

Landmarks and landscapes

Southern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Walter Lini
Walter Lini Founding prime minister Walter Hadye Lin̄i was a Raga Anglican priest and politician who was the first Prime Minister of Vanuatu, from independence in 1980 to 1991.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Continents — Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
    The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: landmarks, leaders.