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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Vanuatu
| Which country is the biggest export partner of Vanuatu? | Vanuatu
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One of the languages spoken on the islands.
| What was the estimated population in Vanuatu in 2000? | Vanuatu
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| The highest point in Vanuatu is at 1,877 m. What is the name of this highest point? | Vanuatu
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| How long is the coastline of Vanuatu? | Vanuatu
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| What is the capital of Vanuatu? | Vanuatu
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| From what two European countries did Vanuatu become independent? | Vanuatu
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| When did Vanuatu became an independent country? | Vanuatu
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| What was the former name of Vanuatu? | Vanuatu
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January - April. Volcanism can also cause minor earthquakes in Vanuatu, and tsunamis are also an occurrence.
Éfaté. Although Espiritu Santo is the largest island in Vanutatu, Éfaté has both the capital and the smaller settlement of Forari.
Vatu. The currency code for the Vanuatu Vatu is VUV.
Islands near New Caledonia. The Matthew and Hunter Islands, east of New Caledonia, are claimed by both Vanuatu and France.
| The flag of Vanuatu is black, red, and green, all separated by a yellow horizontal 'Y' shape. What is the picture featured in the black triangle on the left of the flag? | Let's Go! Vanuatu
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A boar tusk and two crossed Namele leaves. This is also the Ni-Vanuantu coat of arms.
Approximately 80. These islands cover an area of 12,200 sq.km.
| Vanuatu's flag features a boar's tusk encircling two leaves of a local fern species (the namele). The fern represents peace. Why is the boar's tusk featured? | "We Stand With God" in Vanuatu
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Pigs are a traditional symbol of wealth and status in Vanuatu.. Pigs arrived in the islands with the first Melanesian settlers, and are the only mammal to populate the island simultaneously with humans. There are no indigenous large mammals. Pig ownership came to be a sign of status, wealth and power. Pig killing became an important ritual, a way of showing social standing and proclaiming political power. Elaborate boar-raising strategies were developed in order to produce the highly-prized circular tusks as shown on the flag.
Vanuatu's flag has two horizontal bands (red on top, green on the bottom) and a black triangle on the edge by which it is hoisted, with the regions separated by yellow stripes. The boar's tusk and namele fern are in the black triangle. The red represents the blood of boars and men, the green the richness of the islands, the black the Ni-Vanuatu people, and the yellow the light of the Gospel (Vanuatu is about 90% Christian).
The coat of arms of Vanuatu also features a boar's tusk and two ferns, in front of which a Melanesian warrior stands, holding a spear, on top of a scroll that reads "Long God yumi stanap". This national motto translates into English as "In God we stand".
| Vanuatu is located in the tropics (its capital, Port Vila, is located about 17.5 degrees south of the equator, 168 degrees east of the Prime Meridian). Like many tropical countries, it has a dry season and a rainy season, when most of the annual rainfall occurs and when cyclones pose a frequent danger to residents. When is Vanuatu's cyclone season? | "We Stand With God" in Vanuatu
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December through April. The dry season runs roughly from May through October, and the rainy season from November through April. Rainfall averages about 236 cm (93 in) per year, but is higher in places, up to 400cm (160 in) for some northern islands. Cyclones occur most frequently between December and April. The cooler months are April through September. Maximum daily temperatures average 68 Celsius in winter and 82 Celsius in summer.
| Vanuatu experiences frequent earthquakes, both from volcanic activity and from the interaction of two colliding tectonic plates. Vanuatu lies near the boundary between which two plates? | "We Stand With God" in Vanuatu
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Australia and Pacific. Being near the boundary of the Australia and Pacific plates, Vanuatu is part of the "Ring of Fire", the zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean which includes most of the world's active volcanoes, and which experiences many earthquakes. The islands of Vanuatu are volcanic in origin, as might be expected from their location, with surrounding coral reefs. Seismic activity periodically causes minor earthquakes on a number of the islands. Vanuatu has 11 volcanoes which have erupted during the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Severe earthquakes are a relatively frequent event, and have serious economic consequences for the country. An earthquake in 1999, and a subsequent tsunami, caused major damage to the island of Pentecoste, and left several thousand people homeless. Another earthquake in 2002, also followed by a tsunami, destroyed large portions of Port Vila, the nation's capital. A magnitude 7.6 shock that hit on 7 October 2009 was reclassified as a foreshock when it was followed by one of magnitude 7.8 15 minutes later; a further 5 shocks over 6.0 and 12 shocks over 5.0 occurred during the next 12 hours.
English, French and Bislama. From the early 19th century British and French interests in the islands were intermingled. In 1906 they agreed to administer the islands jointly, and did so until independence in 1980. Bislama is a pidgin language which combines a Melanesian grammar with a predominantly English vocabulary. While English and French are the main languages of education and government, Bislama is the language of everyday use, as it is the only language that can be spoken and understood by the majority of the Ni-Vanuatu people. Vanuatu has one of the world's most varied language structures: there are currently 113 indigenous languages spoken, with an average of 2,000 speakers per language.
Pacific. The Australasian ecozone includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands. An ecozone is an area of the Earth's surface where plants and animals developed in relative isolation over long periods of time, leading to species clustering. Ecozones are usually separated by features such as oceans, mountains or deserts that prevent migration of animals and plants from one area to another.
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