single category of "Union territory". Due to various other reorganisations, only 6 union territories remained: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Laccadive, Minicoy...
Tanzania and Indonesia. Theterritory comprises the seven atolls ofthe Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands, many very small, amounting...
too-VAH-loo), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in thePacific Ocean, about midway between...
A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its...
settling in other nearby islands such as Tonga and Samoa. They are indigenous to all parts of Fiji except theislandof Rotuma. The original settlers are...
Union territoriesof Delhi and Puducherry), and State Legislative Councils are conducted by theElection Commission of India (ECI). The State Election Commission...
Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical...
Islands". Treaties, Conventions, and State Papers Relating to the Acquisition ofthe Samoan Islands, for the Use ofthe Committee on PacificIslands and...
provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to thePacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest...
including Norfolk Island, Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory were often of British/European Australian stock. The first known...
north of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Theterritory consists of 181 islands, with a total area of 53.3 km2 (20.6 sq mi). The largest island is Main Island (also...
at the time, the Buin sub-district ofthe North Solomons District oftheTerritoryof New Guinea, an Australian-administered United Nations trust territory...
ThePacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or thePacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific...
in 1972, Bob Hawke in 1983, and Kevin Rudd in 2007. Every state and territory except Tasmania swung to Labor on a two-party-preferred basis. The largest...
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the...
rank can also hold the position ofthe Chief Secretary/Administrator of a Union Territory. The rank of Joint Secretary in Government of India is analogous...
after the war, and in 1949 the two territories were united as theTerritoryof Papua and New Guinea. See also PacificIslands. As part ofthe Destroyers...
claims to these islands. These include all ofthe Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, Macclesfield Bank and Scarborough Shoal. These islands are administered...
Politics of Samoa takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic state whereby the Prime Minister of Samoa is the head of government...
could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don't think I am wrong about Stalin." Churchill defended his actions at Yalta in a three-day parliamentary debate...
the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2024. "Cook Islands should be allowed to decide to join United Nations - Nanaia Mahuta". Pacific Media...
Ridge – Double oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean Lists ofislands Previously known officially as the "Territoryof New Caledonia and Dependencies"...
smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south oftheislandsof New Caledonia...