Vanuatu

Vanuatu

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 east of northern Australia, 540 km northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji. Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish East Indies and named it La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo. In the 1880s, France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the archipelago, and in 1906, they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides – through an Anglo-French condominium. In the 1970s, an independence movement arose, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980.

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• Entity:  Infobox

• Official languages:  Bislama, English, French
• Religion:  93.4% Christianity, 75.1% Protestantism, 13.5% Catholicism, 4.8% Other Christian, 4.6% Animism, 1.4% Baháʼí Faith, 0.6% Other / None
• Demonym:  Ni-Vanuatu, Vanuatuan
• Currency:  Vatu
• Legislature:  Parliament
• Wikidata description:  Island Country In Oceania
• Wikidata label:  Vanuatu
• Wikidata aliases:  Vanuatu, Republic Of Vanuatu, Vu, Vut, Van, Van

• Related Topics:  Vanuatu Category, Outline Of Vanuatu - The Following Outline Is Provided As An Overview Of And Topical Guide To Vanuatu: Vanuatu – Sovereign Island Nation Located In The South Pacific Ocean., Countries In Oceania, British Western Pacific Territories, Countries In Melanesia, Member States Of The Organisation Internationale De La Francophonie, Member States Of The Commonwealth Of Nations, Small Island Developing States, Archipelagoes Of The Pacific Ocean, Island Countries, Member States Of The United Nations