Category: Oceania

Weather in Oceania

Climate and Weather in Australia and Oceania

Oceania is an insular continent of the Earth constituted by the continental shelf of Australia, the islands of New Guinea and New Zealand, and the coral and volcanic archipelagos of Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. All these islands are distributed by the Pacific...

Palau

Palau Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Palau is a State of Oceania (488 km²). Capital: Melekeok. Population: 20,300 (2008). Language: English and Palauan (official). Religion: Catholics 49.4%, Protestants 23.2%, modekngei 8.7%, others 18.7%. Currency unit: US dollar (100...

Guam

Guam Weather and Climate

General & Geographical Location According to abbreviationfinder, Guam is the largest island of the Mariana Archipelago in the western Pacific and is home to around 190,000 inhabitants on around 545 square kilometers. Since it...

New Zealand

New Zealand Weather and Climate

Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, New Zealand is located in the South Pacific. The island state consists of a north and a south island and more than 700 smaller islands. The 23 kilometers wide...

Tonga

Tonga Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Tonga is a  kingdom in the southern Pacific Ocean. The population is 98% Polynesians. The kingdom includes the Tonga Islands (Friendship Islands), an archipelago of around 150 volcanic and coral islands....

Cook Islands

Cook Islands Weather and Climate

General & Geography Abbreviated as CK by abbreviationfinder, the Cook Islands form a group of islands in the southern Pacific, around 3,000 kilometers from New Zealand. They lie in a marine area of ​​over...

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia Weather and Climate

Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, Sydney is located in the southeast of Australia and is the capital of the state of New South Wales. According to the latest calculations, around 4.6 million people live...

New Caledonia

New Caledonia Weather and Climate

Geographical location Abbreviated as NC by abbreviationfinder, New Caledonia is a group of islands off Australia’s northeast coast in the South Pacific. The total area of ​​the islands is 18,576 square kilometers, Grande Terre...

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia Weather and Climate

Geographical location After Sydney, Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia and the capital of the state of Victoria. Around 4.25 million people live in an area of ​​9990 square kilometers, which results in...

Tahiti, French Polynesia

Tahiti, French Polynesia Weather and Climate

General & Geographical Location Short for VTA by abbreviationfinder, Tahiti is an island in the southern Pacific and, geographically speaking, belongs to the archipelago of the Society Islands, to be precise, to the islands...

French Polynesia

French Polynesia Weather and Climate

Geographical location Short for FP by abbreviationfinder, the French overseas territory of French Polynesia, located in the South Pacific, southeast of Australia and New Zealand, consists of 118 islands and atolls, which are combined...

Samoa

Samoa Weather and Climate

Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, the island state of Samoa occupies the western part of the Samoan Islands, the eastern part of the South Sea archipelago belongs to the United States of America as...

Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Bora Bora, French Polynesia Weather and Climate

General & Geography short for BOB by abbreviationfinder, Bora Bora, part of the Society Islands in the overseas territory of French Polynesia, is not even 30 km² in size. Located about 260 km south...

Fiji

Fiji Weather and Climate

General & Geography According to COUNTRYAAH, the Republic of Fiji (often just called Fiji in German) is an independent island state in the southern Pacific, which was a British crown colony from 1874 to...

Vanuatu

Vanuatu Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Vanuatu is a State of Oceania (12,190 km²). Capital: Port Vila. Population: 233,000 (2008 estimate). Language: bislama, French and English (official). Religion: Protestants 35.7%, Catholics 14.6%, Anglicans 14%, others 35.7%. Monetary unit:...

Australia

Australia Weather and Climate

Geographical location Australia is the only country in the world that also fills an entire continent. According to COUNTRYAAH, Australia is south of Indonesia and northwest of New Zealand. About 23.63 million people live...

Tuvalu

Tuvalu Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Tuvalu is a State of Oceania (25.63 km²). Capital: Vaiaku. Population: 10,500 (2008 estimate). Language: English and Tuvaluan (official). Religion: Protestants 85.2%, Catholics 1.4%, others 13.4%. Monetary unit: Tuvalu dollar, at par...

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Solomon Islands is a State of Oceania (28,370 km²). Capital: Honiara. Population: 507,000 (2008 estimate). Language: English (official), pidgin-english. Religion: Protestants 41.8%, Anglicans 33.9%, Catholics 19.1%, others 5.2%. Currency unit: Solomon Islands...

Nauru

Nauru Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Nauru is a State of Oceania (21.2 km²). Main center and seat of government: Yaren. Population: 10,163 (2008 estimate). Language: Nauruan (official), English. Religion: Protestants 50.9%, Catholics 27.1%, others 22%. Currency unit:...

Kiribati

Kiribati Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Kiribati is a State of Oceania (811 km²). Capital: Bairiki. Population: 97,000 (2008 estimate). Language: English (official), Gilbertese. Religion: Catholics 55.3%, Protestants 35.7%, others 9%. Currency unit: Australian dollar (100 cents). Borders:...

Northern Territory, Australia

Northern Territory, Australia Weather and Climate

Geography and general Short for NT by abbreviationfinder, the Northern Territory in Australia extends from the border with South Australia to the uppermost north of the Timor Sea. The least populated state on the...

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Weather and Climate

Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, Papua New Guinea is the third largest island state in the world in terms of area and has around 7.5 million inhabitants. Geographically, it belongs to Australia and is...

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Marshall Islands is a State of Oceania (181.4 km²). Capital: Dalap Uliga-Djarrit. Population: 53,240 (2008 estimate). Language: English, Marshallese (official). Religion: Protestants 61.5%, Catholics 7.7%, others 30.8%. Currency unit: US dollar (100...

Micronesia

Micronesia Weather and Climate

According to COUNTRYAAH, Micronesia is a State of Oceania (702 km²). Capital: Palikir. Population: 108,026 (2008 estimate). Language: English. Religion: Catholics 40.7%, Protestants 37.3%, others 22%. Currency unit: US dollar (100 cents). Borders: Pacific Ocean....

Hawaii

Hawaii Weather and Climate

Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, the Hawaii island chain is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, five hours by plane from the Californian metropolis of Los Angeles. The so-called Aloha State is...