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Tuvalu (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 00 00 S degrees minutes Lat: -8.0000 decimal degrees
Long: 178 00 00 E degrees minutes Long: 178.0000 decimal degrees
Note: Comprises nine coral atolls; original Melanesian inhabitants were invaded by Polynesians from Samoa 16th century; sighted by British John Byron 1764; part of Britain's Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony 1915; separated from Gilberts (now Kiribati) 1974; main languages are Tuvaluan and English.
Names:
Tuvalu (preferred C ,V ,O ,English-P ,U ,N ) ............ since 1976 Tuvalu Rundi )Tuvalu Somali )Tuvalu Tagalog )Tuvalu Maltese )Tuvalu Tuvaluan-P ,U )Tuvalu Indonesian )Tuvalu Ganda (Ugandan language) )Tuvalu Azerbaijani )Tuvalu Bambara )Tuvalu Croatian )Tuvalu Bosnian )Tuvalu Latin )Tuvalu Latvian )Tuvalu Lingala )Tuvalu Magyar (Hungarian) )Tuvalu Danish )Tuvalu Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Tuvalu Finnish )Tuvalu Swedish )Tuvalu Polish )Tuvalu Portuguese )Tuvalu Romanian )Tuvalu Slovak )Tuvalu Slovene )Tuvalu Spanish-P ,U ,N )Tuvalu Catalan )Tuvalu Basque )Tuvalu Aragonese )Tuvalu Akan )Tuvalu German )Tuvalu Low German )Tuvalu Albanian )Tuvalu Breton )Tuvalu Cornish )Tuvalu Czech )Tuvalu Dutch )Tuvalu Afrikaans )Tuvalu French-P ,U ,N )Tuvalu Galician )Tuvalu Faroese )Tuvalu Italian )Tuvalu Lithuanian )Tuvalu Estonian )Tuvalu Greenlandic )Tuvalu Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian) )Tuvalu Turkish )Tuvalu Occitan )Tuvalu Norwegian (Bokmål) )Tuvalu Romansh )Tuvalu Kikuyu )Tuvalu Luba-Katanga )Tuvalu Malay (macrolanguage) )Tuvalu Norwegian )Tuvalu Northern Sami )Tuvalu Shona )Tuvalu Swahili (generic) )Tuvalu Arpitan )Tuvalu Ido )Tuvalu Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Тувалу (C ,O ,Tajik )Тувалу Bashkir )Тувалу Serbian )Тувалу Macedonian )Тувалу Lezgian )Тувалу Chechen )Тувалу Mongolian )Тувалу Kazakh )Тувалу Kyrgyz )Тувалу Bulgarian )Тувалу Russian-P ,U )Тувалу Ukrainian )Тувалу Ossetian/Ossetic )Тувалу Yakut )Тувалу Russia Buriat )Тувалу Western Mari )Тувалу Belarusian )图瓦卢 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )ثوفا وً (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )TUV (C ,O ,ISO3L )TV (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO798 (C ,O ,ISO3N )Tuvaluan (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )טובאלו (C ,U ,Hebrew )i-Tuvalu (C ,U ,Zulu )Orílẹ́ède Tufalu (C ,U ,Yoruba )Thuvalu (C ,U ,North Ndebele )Tʼoobááloo (C ,U ,Navajo )Touvalou (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Tovalò (C ,U ,Malagasy )Tubalu (C ,U ,Hausa )Tubalu Central Bikol )Tubaru (C ,U ,Nauruan )Tubhalu (C ,U ,Scots Gaelic )Tufalu (C ,U ,Yoruba )Tuvalo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Túvalú (C ,U ,Icelandic )Tu-va-lu (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Tûvalû (C ,U ,Kurdish )Tûvalû Western Frisian )Túválú (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Tüvalü (C ,U ,Sangho )Tūvalu (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )Tuvaluäns (C ,U ,Volapük )Túvalúeyjar (C ,U ,Icelandic )Tuvalu nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Tuvaru (C ,U ,Tahitian )Tuwalu (C ,U ,Quechuan )Tuwalu Uyghur )Tuwalu German )Tuwaluu (C ,U ,Fulah )Tuwaluu Pitcairn-Norfolk )Twfalw (C ,U ,Welsh )圖瓦盧 (C ,U ,Chinese, Wu )圖瓦盧 Chinese, Yue )圖瓦盧 Chinese )تووڤالوو (C ,U ,Kurdish )تووڤالوو Central Kurdish )ٹووالو (C ,U ,Panjabi, Western )ٹووالو Urdu )ਤੁਵਾਲੂ (C ,U ,Panjabi, Eastern )टुवालु (C ,U ,Marathi )टुवालु Sanskrit )टुवालु Kashmiri )تووالو (C ,U ,Pashto )تووالو Urdu )تووالو Persian-Farsi )တူဗားလူနိုင်ငံ (C ,U ,Burmese )ଟୁଭାଲୋ (C ,U ,Odia )ตูวาลู (C ,U ,Thai )ཏུ་ཝ་ལུ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )Տուվալու (C ,U ,Armenian )துவாலு (C ,U ,Tamil )ประเทศตูวาลู (C ,U ,Thai )ტუვალუ (C ,U ,Mingrelian )ტუვალუ Georgian )Թուվալու (C ,U ,Armenian )توفالو (C ,U ,Arabic )ツバル (C ,U ,Japanese )ටුවාලු (C ,U ,Sinhala )तुवालू (C ,U ,Marathi )तुवालू Hindi )துவாலூ (C ,U ,Tamil )Тувалмудин Орн (C ,U ,Kalmyk )Τουβαλού (C ,U ,Greek )توڤالو (C ,U ,Arabic, Egyptian )ತುವಾಲು (C ,U ,Kannada )ቱቫሉ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ቱቫሉ Amharic )ތުވާލޫ (C ,U ,Maldivian (Divehi) )টুভালু (C ,U ,Bengali )টুভালু Bishnupriya Manipuri )투발루 (C ,U ,Korean )तुवालु (C ,U ,Hindi )టువాలు (C ,U ,Telugu )توالو (C ,U ,Persian-Farsi )ཐུ་ཝ་ལུ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )ටුවාලූ (C ,U ,Sinhala )തുവാലു (C ,U ,Malayalam )ಟುವಾಲು (C ,U ,Kannada )तुभालु (C ,U ,Nepali )તુવાલુ (C ,U ,Gujarati )טובלו (C ,U ,Hebrew )ଟୁଭାଲୁ (C ,U ,Odia )Ellice Islands (H ,V )Lagoon Islands (H ,V )
Hierarchical Position:
Additional Parents:
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ gained independence October 1, 1978
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
constitutional monarchy (C ) ............ established 1978
island nation (C )
former territory/colony/dependent state (C )
protectorate (H ) ............ British, 1892-1915
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Funafuti .................. (World, Oceania, Tuvalu, Funafuti) [7002049]
member of .... Commonwealth of Nations ................ (World) [7005615] ................ joined association in 1978
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 2000
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