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Australia & Oceania Federated States of Micronesia Australia Capital: Palikir Capital: Official Language: Canberra English Official Language: English Cool Facts: Cool Facts: The island of Yap uses carved stone circles, with a The dry Outback covers most of Australia and most hole in the middle, as a type of money. Most of these 1 of the population lives along the coast. Australia are smaller but some can be up to 12 feet tall.9 has a great variety of plants and animals, with over 80 percent of these only found here, like the kanga- 2 roo, koala and platypus. The Great Barrier Reef, off Fiji of the country’s coast, is the world’s largest living Capital: 3 Australia structure and can be seen from space. Suva has the world’s largest cattle ranch, which is about 4 Official Languages: the size of New Hampshire. Australia has world’s 5 English, Fijian and Hindi longest fence, its about 3,400 miles long, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House Cool Facts: are world famous. Australia is also world famous for Fiji is known for beautiful islands and also has the its surfing.6 traditional game called Veicaqe Moli, which is soccer played with an orange.10 Marshall Islands Capital: Majuro Official Languages: English and Marshallese Kiribati Capital: Cool Facts: South Tarawa The Marshall Islands has the world’s largest shark Official Languages: sanctuary, an area where fishing for sharks is not English and Gilbertese allowed.11 Cool Facts: Kiribati is the only country in the world that lies in the New Zealand Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Capital: hemispheres.7 Wellington Official Language: Nauru English, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language Capital: Cool Facts: Yaren District New Zealand is world famous for its breathtaking Official Language: 12 scenery, it has the world’s largest hot spring and Nauruan Blue Lake is known to have the clearest fresh water in the world.13 The people from New Zealand are nick- Cool Facts: named Kiwis, after the native, flightless bird.14 This Nauru is made up of one tiny island, that is about 8 country also has one of the world’s steepest streets,15 square miles and is the smallest island country in the smallest and rarest dolphin16 and there are no land 8 world. snakes anywhere.17 Copyright Homemade-Preschool.com Australia & Oceania Palau Papua New Guinea Capital: Ngerulmud Official Languages: Capital: English and Palauan Port Moresby Official Languages: Cool Facts: Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu and Palau is known for it’s snorkeling and scuba diving.21 Jellyfish Lake, in Palau, is full of millions of harmless, Papua New Guinean Sign Language migrating Jellyfish that people can swim with.22 Cool Facts: There are over 850 languages spoken in Papua New Guinea, the most of any country in the world.18 Its flag was designed by a 15 year old girl.19 It is also Samoa home to one of the world’s only poisonous birds, the Hooded Pitohui.20 Capital: Apia Official Languages: Solomon Islan Samoan and English ds Capital: Honiara Cool Facts: Official Language: Samoa is known for its beautiful scenery and rich English Polynesian culture. The Alofaaga Blowholes shoot ocean water high into the air when the pressure of waves crash into the other end of the blowhole tunnels.23 Cool Facts: Solomon Islands are known for their beauty. A lagoon is a body of water that is separated from the Tonga sea by sand or coral reef and the Marovo Lagoon, found here, is the world’s largest saltwater lagoon, Capital: 24 Nuku'alofa Official Languages: English and Tongan Tuvalu Cool Facts: Capital: The major crops that are grown in Tonga are coco Funafuti - nuts, vanilla beans and bananas.25 Official Languages: Tonga is known for being a world famous sport fishing destination.26 English and Tuvaluan Cool Facts: Tuvalu’s highest elevation is 15 feet above sea level27 Vanuatu and the Caves of Nanumanga are located over 30 feet underwater on a cliff. The caves show signs of Capital: there once being a fire here, meaning the cave was Port Vila once above water.28 Official Languages: English, French and Bislama Cool Facts: In Vanuatu, having pigs is highly prized, especially ones that have rounded tusks. These pigs are consid- ered to be a sign of wealth and power29 and life in this country is centered around them. 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