List of Oceania Countries With Their Respective Capitals and Currencies

Oceania Countries With Their Respective Capitals and Currencies

Oceania is the smallest continent of the earth. It spans the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. This continent is also known as the Australia continent. It is surrounded by the Indian, Antarctica, and Pacific Oceans. It covers an area of 8,525,989 square km, almost 5.8% of Earth’s total land area. The Oceania continent is the second-smallest in population after Antarctica. In the Oceania continent, there are 14 United Nation recognized countries and 28 non-sovereign territories. The largest country of this continent is Australia and the smallest country is Nauru. It extends to New Guinea in the west, the Hawaiian Islands in the northeast, Easter Island and Isla Salas y Gomez in the east, the Bonin Islands in the northwest, and Macquarie Island in the south. Conventionally, there are four main geographical subregions in the Oceania continent. These subregions are Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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To know about the fourteen United Nations recognized Oceania countries with their   capitals, currencies, official languages and flags, refer to the table below. 

Country Capital Currency Official Languages  Flag Sub Region
Australia Canberra Australiandollar English Australasia
Fiji Suva Fijian dollar English, Fijian Melanesia
Kiribati Tarawa Australiandollar English, Gilbertese Micronesia
Marshall Islands Majuro US dollar English, Marshallese Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia Palikir US dollar English Micronesia
Nauru Yaren Australiandollar Nauruan, English Micronesia
New Zealand Wellington New Zealanddollar Maori, English Australasia
Palau Ngerulmud US dollar Palauan,English Micronesia
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Kina English, Tok Pisin Melanesia
Samoa Apia Tala Samoan, English Polynesia
Solomon Islands Honiara Solomon Islands dollar English Melanesia
Tonga Nuku’alofa Pa’anga Tongan, English Polynesia
Tuvalu Funafuti Tuvaluandollar Tuvaluan, English Polynesia
Vanuatu Port Vila Vatu Bislama, English Melanesia

In the Oceania continent, twenty-eight non-sovereign territories (some are federal territories, autonomous areas, and dependent territories of sovereign states) are controlled by other countries. To know about this type of non-sovereign territories with their capitals, currencies, official languages, and flags, refer to the table below.

Territory Capital Currency Official Languages Status  Flag Sub Region
American Samoa Pago Pago US dollar English, Samoan Unincorporated Territory of the United States South Pacific Ocean
Ashmore and Cartier Islands None None None External Territory of Australia Indian Ocean
Baker Island None None None Unincorporated Territory of the United States Central Pacific Ocean
Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove Australiandollar Mandarin, Malay Territory of Australia Indian Ocean
Clipperton Island None None None France Pacific Ocean
Cocos (Keeling) Islands West Island Australiandollar Malay, English Territory of Australia Indian Ocean
Coral Sea Islands None None None External territory of Australia Pacific Ocean
Easter Island Hanga Roa Peso Spanish,Rapa Nui special territory of Chile Pacific Ocean
French Polynesia Papeete CFP franc (XPF) French Overseas country of France Pacific Ocean
Galápagos Islands Puerto Baquerizo Moreno US dollar Spanish Special territory of Ecuador Pacific Ocean
Guam Hagåtña US dollar Chamorro, English Unincorporated Territory of the United States Micronesia
Hawaii Honolulu US dollar English, Hawaiian State of the United States Pacific Ocean
Howland Island None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Jarvis Island None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Johnston Atoll None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Kingman Reef None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Midway Atoll None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
New Caledonia Nouméa CFP franc (XPF) French France Pacific Ocean
Norfolk Island Kingston Australian dollar English, Norfuk External territory of Australia Pacific Ocean
Northern Mariana Islands Saipan US dollar English Unincorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Ogasawara Village Ōmura Japanese yen Japanese Part of Ogasawara Village in Tokyo, Japan Pacific Ocean
Palmyra Atoll None None None Incorporated territory of the United States Pacific Ocean
Papua Jayapura Indonesian rupiah Indonesian Papuan Malay Province of Indonesia Western Pacific Ocean
Pitcairn Islands Adamstown New Zealand dollar Pitkern English British overseas territory Pacific Ocean
Tokelau None New Zealand dollar Tokelauan, English  Dependent territory of New Zealand Pacific Ocean
Wake Island None None None Unincorporated territory of the United States South Pacific Ocean
Wallis and Futuna Matā’Utu CFP franc (XPF) French France South Pacific Ocean
West Papua Manokwari Indonesian rupiah Indonesian Papuan Malay Province of Indonesia Pacific Ocean

 

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