Population is about 299,882 people, the 181st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 25,600 of everyone alive.
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Vanuatu
Republic of Vanuatu
Oceania
ยท Melanesia
0Population
12.19Kkmยฒ of land
$3.12KGDP / person
Port VilaCapital
- ISO codes
- VU ยท VUT
- Density
- 25 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Bislama, English, French
- Currency
- Vanuatu vatu (VUV)
- Dial code
- +678
- Internet domain
- .vu
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 15.3720ยฐ S, 166.9090ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Ni-Vanuatu
- UN region
- Melanesia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $934M
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Vanuatu stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
181st
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
162nd
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
174th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
185th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Vanuatu
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Covers 12,189 kmยฒ, making it the 162nd largest country here - about 4.7 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 25 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Port Vila, at 17.73ยฐ S, 168.32ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 44,040.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Pacific/Efate.
The currency is the Vanuatu vatu (VUV, symbol Vt).
Has 3 official languages: Bislama, English and French.
Dials on +678 and uses the .vu internet domain.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Efate
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UTC+11:00
Cities
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Port Vila
Shefa
17.7334ยฐ S, 168.3166ยฐ E
44.04K