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Vanuatu

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Vanuatu (or; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. [1]

223 relations: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique, Aid, Ambae Island, Ambrym, Aneityum, Anglicanism, Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission, Annales de Géographie, Annam (French protectorate), Archaeology, Archipelago, Asian Development Bank, Australasian realm, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Austronesian languages, Bamboo musical instruments, Bislama, Blackbirding, Capital gains tax, Cargo cult, Catholic Church, Celebrity Survivor, Central Intelligence Agency, Charlot Salwai, China, Churches of Christ in Australia, Circumcision, Citizenship, Civil service commission, Coalition government, Cocoa bean, Coconut, Coconut War, Colocasia esculenta, Common law, Commonwealth of Nations, Condominium (international law), Constitution of Vanuatu, Continental shelf, Cooking banana, Copra, Creole language, Cuisine of Vanuatu, Custom (law), Cyclades, Cyclone Pam, Digicel, E. O. Wilson, Ecological footprint, Ecoregion, ..., Efate, Elizabeth II, Epi (island), Erromango, Espiritu Santo, European Union, Feral, Fiji, Fiji banded iguana, Financial services, Flag of convenience, Food security, Francophonie, Friends of the Earth, Gaua, Grace Mera Molisa, Grade-taking, Happy Planet Index, Head of government, Idiophone, Income tax, Indentured servitude, Index of Economic Freedom, Index of Vanuatu-related articles, Indotyphlops braminus, Inheritance tax, International Maritime Organization, International Monetary Fund, Interpol, Islam in Vanuatu, Island country, James Cook, Jehovah's Witnesses, John Frum, Kava, Kazaa, Languages of Vanuatu, Laplap, Law enforcement in Vanuatu, Law of France, Life expectancy, Life satisfaction, Lissachatina fulica, List of countries and dependencies by area, List of countries by natural disaster risk, List of fishes of the Coral Sea, List of Portuguese monarchs, Lopevi, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Luganville, Maewo, Malakula, Malampa Province, Malo Island, Malvatu Mauri, Manila, Matthew Island and Hunter Island, Maxime Carlot Korman, Melanesia, Melanesians, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Missionary, Mount Tabwemasana, Mount Yasur, Music of Vanuatu, Nakamal, Natural disaster, Naturalist (book), Neil Thomas Ministries, Neologism, New Caledonia, New Economics Foundation, New Guinea, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Ni-Vanuatu, Oceanic languages, Official language, Offshore financial centre, Outline of Vanuatu, Overseas France, Parliament of Vanuatu, Parliamentary republic, Peace Corps, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Penama Province, Pentecost Island, People's Liberation Army, Peter Dillon, Pidgin, Plantation, Polynesian outlier, Polynesian rat, Port Vila, Portuguese people, Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu, President of Vanuatu, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Prince Philip Movement, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Protestantism, Proto-Austronesian language, Public infrastructure, Quorum, Ralph Regenvanu, Ranch, Rattle (percussion instrument), Reggaeton, Religion in Vanuatu, Representative democracy, Republic, Saltwater crocodile, Sandalwood, Sanma Province, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Sharman Networks, Shefa Province, Slit drum, Solomon Islands, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, Spanish East Indies, Spanish Empire, SS President Coolidge, String band, Supreme Court of Vanuatu, Survivor (U.S. TV series), Survivor: Vanuatu, Tafea Province, Tallis Obed Moses, Tanna (island), Tax haven, Telephone numbers in Vanuatu, Terra Australis, The Mail on Sunday, The Sydney Morning Herald, The World Factbook, Torba Province, Trade winds, Tsunami, Tusk, Ukulele, UNESCO, Unicameralism, Union of Moderate Parties, Unitary state, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States, United States Department of State, University of the South Pacific, Value-added tax, Vanua, Vanua Lava, Vanua'aku Pati, Vanuatu, Vanuatu flying fox, Vanuatu rain forests, Vanuatu vatu, Vernacular, Vietnam, Visa policy of Vanuatu, Volcano, Walter Lini, WinMX, Withholding tax, Women's rights, World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization, World War II, Yam (vegetable), Yaohnanen, Yumi, Yumi, Yumi, Zouk, .vu. Expand index (173 more) »

Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique

The Agence de coopération culturelle et technique (ACCT, French for Agency of cultural and technical cooperation) was founded in 1970 and was the precursor to what is now the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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Aid

In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

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Ambae Island

Ambae Island, also known as Aoba or Leper's Island, is an island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, located near, approximately NNW of Vanuatu's capital city, Port Vila.

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Ambrym

Ambrym is a volcanic island in Malampa Province in the archipelago of Vanuatu.

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Aneityum

Aneityum (also known as Anatom or Keamu) is the southernmost island of Vanuatu, in the province of Tafea.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission

The Anglo-French Joint Naval Commission was in charge of the territory of the New Hebrides in the period 1887–1889 and again in 1890–1906.

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Annales de Géographie

The Annales de Géographie is a French journal devoted to geography, first published in 1891.

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Annam (French protectorate)

Annam (An Nam or Trung Kỳ, alternate spelling: Anam) was a French protectorate encompassing the central region of Vietnam.

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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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Australasian realm

The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographical region of Australasia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.

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Bamboo musical instruments

Bamboos natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments, most commonly flutes.

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Bislama

Bislama (also known under its earlier name in French bichelamar) is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu.

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Blackbirding

Blackbirding is the coercion of people through trickery and kidnapping to work as labourers.

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Capital gains tax

A capital gains tax (CGT) is a tax on capital gains, the profit realized on the sale of a non-inventory asset that was greater than the amount realized on the sale.

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Cargo cult

A cargo cult is a millenarian movement first described in Melanesia which encompasses a range of practices and occurs in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced societies.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Celebrity Survivor

Australian Celebrity Survivor (also known as Celebrity Survivor: Vanuatu) is the second season of Australian Survivor, based on the popular reality game show Survivor.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Charlot Salwai

Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas (born 24 April 1963), Vanuatu Parliament, 20 January 2015 is a ni-Vanuatu politician and former accountant and political advisor.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Churches of Christ in Australia

The Churches of Christ in Australia is a Christian movement in Australia.

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Circumcision

Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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Civil service commission

A civil service commission is a government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promote the values of the public service.

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Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which many or multiple political parties cooperate, reducing the dominance of any one party within that "coalition".

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Coconut

The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos.

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Coconut War

The Coconut War was a brief clash between Papua New Guinean soldiers and rebels in Espiritu Santo shortly before and after the independence of the Republic of Vanuatu was declared on 30 July 1980.

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Colocasia esculenta

Colocasia esculenta is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, the root vegetables most commonly known as taro.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Condominium (international law)

In international law, a condominium (plural either condominia, as in Latin, or condominiums) is a political territory (state or border area) in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium (in the sense of sovereignty) and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into "national" zones.

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Constitution of Vanuatu

The Constitution of Vanuatu is the supreme law of the Republic of Vanuatu.

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Continental shelf

The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Copra

Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut, which is the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.

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Cuisine of Vanuatu

The cuisine of Vanuatu (known in Bislama as aelan kakae) incorporates fish, root vegetables such as taro and yams, fruits, and vegetables.

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Custom (law)

Custom in law is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting.

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Cyclades

The Cyclades (Κυκλάδες) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece.

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Cyclone Pam

Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam was the second most intense tropical cyclone of the south Pacific Ocean in terms of sustained winds and is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in the history of Vanuatu.

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Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider operating in 31 markets across the Caribbean, Central America, and Oceania regions.

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E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author.

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Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Efate

Efate is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Epi (island)

Epi (or Épi, Api; formerly known as Tasiko or Volcano Island) is an island in Shefa Province, Vanuatu, at the north end of the Shepherd Islands.

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Erromango

Erromango is the fourth largest island in the Vanuatu archipelago.

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Espiritu Santo

Espiritu Santo is the largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, with an area of and a population of around 40,000 according to the 2009 census.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Feral

A feral animal or plant (from Latin fera, "a wild beast") is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals.

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Fiji

Fiji (Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Matanitu Tugalala o Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्य), is an island country in Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

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Fiji banded iguana

The Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus) is an arboreal species of lizard endemic to some of the southeastern Fijian islands.

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Financial services

Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer-finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds, individual managers and some government-sponsored enterprises.

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Flag of convenience

Flag of convenience (FOC) is a business practice whereby a ship's owners register a merchant ship in a ship register of a country other than that of the ship's owners, and the ship flies the civil ensign of that country, called the flag state.

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Food security

Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.

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Francophonie

Francophonie, sometimes also spelt Francophonia in English, is the quality of speaking French.

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Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries.

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Gaua

Gaua (formerly known as Santa Maria Island) is the largest and second most populous of the Banks Islands in Torba Province of northern Vanuatu.

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Grace Mera Molisa

Grace Mera Molisa (17 February 1946, Aoba Island – 4 January 2002, Port Vila) was a ni-Vanuatu politician, poet and campaigner for women's equality in politics.

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Grade-taking

Grade-taking is a social system under which individuals rise in status and authority by performing a series of ceremonies, typically involving the killing of valuable pigs.

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Happy Planet Index

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006.

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Head of government

A head of government (or chief of government) is a generic term used for either the highest or second highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, (commonly referred to as countries, nations or nation-states) who often presides over a cabinet, a group of ministers or secretaries who lead executive departments.

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Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.

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Income tax

An income tax is a tax imposed on individuals or entities (taxpayers) that varies with respective income or profits (taxable income).

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Indentured servitude

An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time.

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Index of Economic Freedom

The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal in 1995 to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations.

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Index of Vanuatu-related articles

Vanuatu, officially known as the Republic of Vanuatu, is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Indotyphlops braminus

Indotyphlops braminus, commonly known as the brahminy blind snake and other names, is a nonvenomous blind snake species found mostly in Africa and Asia, but has been introduced in many other parts of the world.

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Inheritance tax

A tax paid by a person who inherits money or property or a levy on the estate (money and property) of a person who has died.

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International Maritime Organization

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) until 1982, is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of "189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1945 at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international payment system.

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Interpol

The International Criminal Police Organization (Organisation internationale de police criminelle; ICPO-INTERPOL), more commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates international police cooperation.

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Islam in Vanuatu

Islam in Vanuatu is a small minority religious cult in the country.

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Island country

An island country is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity.

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John Frum

John Frum (also called John Brum, Jon Frum, or John From) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

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Kava

Kava or kava kava or Piper methysticum (Latin "pepper" and Latinized Greek "intoxicating") is a crop of the Pacific Islands.

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Kazaa

Kazaa Media Desktop (once stylized as "KaZaA", but later usually written "Kazaa") started as a peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol licensed by Joltid Ltd. and operated as Kazaa by Sharman Networks.

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Languages of Vanuatu

Vanuatu has three official languages, English, French, and Bislama, a creole language derived from English.

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Laplap

Laplap (sometimes spelled lap lap) is the national dish of Vanuatu.

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Law enforcement in Vanuatu

Vanuatu has a small mobile para-military force part of the national police service, the Ni-Vanuatu Police or Vanuatu Police Force (VPF), headquartered in Port Vila.

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Law of France

In academic terms, French law can be divided into two main categories: private law ("droit privé") and public law ("droit public").

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Life expectancy

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender.

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Life satisfaction

Life satisfaction is the way in which people show their emotions and feelings (moods) and how they feel about their directions and options for the future.

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Lissachatina fulica

Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belong in the family Achatinidae.

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List of countries and dependencies by area

This is a list of the world's countries and their dependent territories by area, ranked by total area.

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List of countries by natural disaster risk

This is a list of countries by natural disaster risk, as measured in the World Risk Index, calculated by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and featured in the 2016 World Risk Report (WRR 2016) published by the Alliance Development Works/Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft (BEH).

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List of fishes of the Coral Sea

This is a list of fish recorded from the Coral Sea, bordering Australia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

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List of Portuguese monarchs

The monarchs of Portugal ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.

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Lopevi

Lopevi (or Lopévi) is an uninhabited island in Malampa Province, Vanuatu.

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.

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Luganville

Luganville is the second largest city in Vanuatu.

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Maewo

Maewo (formerly Aurora Island) is an island in Vanuatu in Penama province, 105 km to the east of Espiritu Santo.

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Malakula

Malakula Island (coordinates), also spelled Malekula, is the second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, in the Pacific Ocean region of Melanesia.

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Malampa Province

Malampa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country and consisting of three main islands.

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Malo Island

Malo (formerly known as St. Bartholomew) is an island in Vanuatu, off the southern coast of Vanuatu's largest island Espiritu Santo in Sanma Province.

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Malvatu Mauri

The Malvatu Mauri, or National Council of Chiefs, is a formal advisory body of chiefs recognised by the Constitution of the Republic of Vanuatu.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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Matthew Island and Hunter Island

The Matthew Island and Hunter Island are two small and uninhabited high islands in the South Pacific, located east of New Caledonia and south-east of Vanuatu archipelago.

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Maxime Carlot Korman

Maxime Carlot Korman (born 26 April 1941) is a ni-Vanuatu politician, formerly serving as Speaker of the Parliament and formerly as acting President.

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Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.

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Melanesians

Melanesians are the predominant indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia.

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Millennium Challenge Corporation

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United States foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004, applying a new philosophy toward foreign aid.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Mount Tabwemasana

Located on the isolated west coast of Espiritu Santo, Mount Tabwemasana is not only the highest peak in Vanuatu, but also one of the highest mountains in the Pacific.

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Mount Yasur

Mount Yasur is a volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, high above sea level, on the coast near Sulphur Bay, northeast of the taller Mount Tukosmera, which was active in the Pleistocene.

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Music of Vanuatu

The music of Vanuatu may refer to any kind of music played in the country of Vanuatu.

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Nakamal

A nakamal (a Bislama word from vernacular terms such as Raga gamali) is a traditional meeting place in Vanuatu.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.

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Naturalist (book)

Naturalist is an autobiography by naturalist, entomologist, and sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson first published in 1994 by Island Press.

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Neil Thomas Ministries

Neil Thomas Ministries (NTM) is a non-profit, Christian organization whose doctrine is heavily based on Methodism, a branch of Protestant Christianity.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.

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New Caledonia

New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie)Previously known officially as the "Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies" (Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances), then simply as the "Territory of New Caledonia" (French: Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), the official French name is now only Nouvelle-Calédonie (Organic Law of 19 March 1999, article 222 IV — see). The French courts often continue to use the appellation Territoire de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.

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New Economics Foundation

The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is a British think-tank that aims to help build a "new economy where people are really in control".

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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New Hebrides

New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium (Condominium des Nouvelles-Hébrides, "Condominium of the New Hebrides") and named for the Hebrides Scottish archipelago, was the colonial name for the island group in the South Pacific Ocean that is now Vanuatu.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ni-Vanuatu

Ni-Vanuatu is a demonym used to refer to all Melanesian ethnicities originating in Vanuatu.

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Oceanic languages

The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a well-established branch of the Austronesian languages.

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Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction.

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Offshore financial centre

An offshore financial centre (OFC) is a jurisdiction specializing in providing corporate and commercial services, such as offshore banking licenses (international banking license) or the incorporation of offshore companies (international business companies).

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Outline of Vanuatu

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Vanuatu: Vanuatu – sovereign island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Overseas France

Overseas France (France d'outre-mer) consists of all the French-administerd territories outside the European continent.

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Parliament of Vanuatu

The Parliament (or Parlement in French) is the unicameral legislative body of the Republic of Vanuatu.

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Parliamentary republic

A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its legitimacy from and is accountable to the legislature (the parliament).

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Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.

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Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (Pedro Fernández de Quirós) (1565–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain best known for his involvement with Spanish voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, in particular the 1595–1596 voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña de Neira, and for leading a 1605–1606 expedition which crossed the Pacific in search of Terra Australis.

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Penama Province

Penama is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the northeast of the country and consisting of three major islands.

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Pentecost Island

Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.

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People's Liberation Army

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Peter Dillon

Peter Dillon (15 June 1788 – 9 February 1847) was a ship's captain engaged in the merchant trade, explorer and writer.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Polynesian outlier

Polynesian outliers are a number of culturally Polynesian societies that geographically lie outside the main region of Polynesian influence, known as the Polynesian Triangle; instead, Polynesian outliers are scattered in the two other Pacific subregions: Melanesia and Micronesia.

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Polynesian rat

The Polynesian rat, or Pacific rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind the brown rat and black rat.

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Port Vila

Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu and is on the island of Efate.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu

The Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu or the Presbitirin Jyos Blong Vanuatu is the largest Christian denomination in Vanuatu.

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President of Vanuatu

The President of Vanuatu is the head of state of Vanuatu.

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Prime Minister of Vanuatu

The Prime Minister of Vanuatu is the head of government of the Republic of Vanuatu.

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Prince Philip Movement

The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect followed by the Kastom people around Yaohnanen village on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Proto-Austronesian language

The Proto-Austronesian language (PAN) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families.

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Public infrastructure

Public infrastructure is infrastructure that is owned by the public or is for public use.

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Quorum

A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group.

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Ralph Regenvanu

Ralph John Regenvanu (born 20 September 1970 in Suva, FijiLaef Blong Mi, Sethy Regenvanu, op.cit., p.76) is a ni-Vanuatu anthropologist, artist and politician.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Rattle (percussion instrument)

A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.

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Reggaeton

Reggaeton (also known as reggaetón and reguetón) is a music genre which originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.

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Religion in Vanuatu

Approximately 83% of the population of Vanuatu is Christian.

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Representative democracy

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

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Republic

A republic (res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.

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Saltwater crocodile

The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), also known as the estuarine crocodile, Indo-Pacific crocodile, marine crocodile, sea crocodile or informally as saltie, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest riparian predator in the world.

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Sandalwood

Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum.

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Sanma Province

Sanma is a province located in the Northern part of the nation of Vanuatu, occupying the nation's largest island, Espiritu Santo, which is located approximately 2,500 km northeast of Sydney, Australia.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Sharman Networks

Sharman Networks is a company headquartered in Australia and incorporated in Vanuatu.

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Shefa Province

Shefa is one of the six provinces of Vanuatu, located in the center of the country and including the islands of Epi and Efate and the Shepherd Islands.

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Slit drum

A slit drum is a hollow percussion instrument.

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of.

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South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society

The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.

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Spanish East Indies

The Spanish East Indies (Spanish: Indias orientales españolas; Filipino: Silangang Indiyas ng Espanya) were the Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific from 1565 until 1899.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire (Imperio Español; Imperium Hispanicum), historically known as the Hispanic Monarchy (Monarquía Hispánica) and as the Catholic Monarchy (Monarquía Católica) was one of the largest empires in history.

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SS President Coolidge

SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in 1931.

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String band

A string band is an old-time music or jazz ensemble made up mainly or solely of string instruments.

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Supreme Court of Vanuatu

Supreme Court of Vanuatu is the superior court of Vanuatu and is based in Port Vila.

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Survivor (U.S. TV series)

Survivor is the American version of the international Survivor reality competition television franchise, itself derived from the Swedish television series Expedition Robinson created by Charlie Parsons which premiered in 1997.

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Survivor: Vanuatu

Survivor: Vanuatu — Islands of Fire, also known as Survivor: Vanuatu, is the ninth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor.

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Tafea Province

Tafea is the southernmost of the six provinces of Vanuatu.

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Tallis Obed Moses

Tallis Obed Moses (born 24 October 1954) is a ni-Vanuatu pastor who has been President of Vanuatu since 6 July 2017.

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Tanna (island)

Tanna (sometimes spelled Tana) is an island in Tafea Province of Vanuatu.

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Tax haven

A tax haven is defined as a jurisdiction with very low "effective" rates of taxation ("headline" rates may be higher).

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Telephone numbers in Vanuatu

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Terra Australis

Terra Australis (Latin for South Land) is a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

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Torba Province

Torba (or TorBa) is the northernmost province of Vanuatu, consisting of the Banks Islands and the Torres Islands.

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Trade winds

The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from 津波, "harbour wave"; English pronunciation) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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Tusk

Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth, usually but not always in pairs, that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Unicameralism

In government, unicameralism (Latin uni, one + camera, chamber) is the practice of having one legislative or parliamentary chamber.

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Union of Moderate Parties

The Union of Moderate Parties (Union des Partis Moderés) is a conservative moderate political party in Vanuatu founded in 1981.

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Unitary state

A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.

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University of the South Pacific

The University of the South Pacific, or USP is an intergovernmental organisation and public research university with a number of locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania.

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Value-added tax

A value-added tax (VAT), known in some countries as a goods and services tax (GST), is a type of tax that is assessed incrementally, based on the increase in value of a product or service at each stage of production or distribution.

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Vanua

The word banua or vanua – meaning "land," "home," or "village" – occurs in several Austronesian languages.

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Vanua Lava

Vanua Lava is the second largest of the Banks Islands in Torba Province, Vanuatu, after slightly larger Gaua.

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Vanua'aku Pati

The Vanua'aku Pati (rough translation: Our Land Party) is a democratic socialist political party in Vanuatu.

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Vanuatu

Vanuatu (or; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Vanuatu flying fox

The Vanuatu flying fox or white flying fox (Pteropus anetianus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae.

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Vanuatu rain forests

The Vanuatu rain forests are a terrestrial ecoregion that includes the islands of Vanuatu, as well as the Santa Cruz Islands group of the neighboring Solomon Islands.

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Vanuatu vatu

The vatu (sign: VT; ISO 4217: VUV) is the currency of Vanuatu.

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Vernacular

A vernacular, or vernacular language, is the language or variety of a language used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Visa policy of Vanuatu

Visitors to Vanuatu must obtain a visa unless they travel on a passport from one of the visa exempt countries.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Walter Lini

Father Walter Hadye Lini (1942 – February 21, 1999) was an Anglican priest and the first Prime Minister of Vanuatu, from independence in 1980 to 1991.

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WinMX

WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored by Frontcode Technologies that runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems, created in 2000.

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Withholding tax

A withholding tax, or a retention tax, is an income tax to be paid to the government by the payer of the income rather than by the recipient of the income.

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Women's rights

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World Intellectual Property Organization

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yam (vegetable)

Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers.

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Yaohnanen

Yaohnanen, also spelled Ionhanen,Brian J. Bresniha and Keith Woodward, ed.

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Yumi, Yumi, Yumi

"Yumi, Yumi, Yumi" (Bislama: "We, We, We") is the national anthem of Vanuatu.

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Zouk

Zouk is a fast jump-up carnival beat originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, popularized by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the 1980s.

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.vu

.vu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Vanuatu.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu

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