Region: Oceania
Capital: Port Vila
Population: 224,564
Area: 12,189 km²
Currency: Vanuatu Vatu (VUV)
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some 1,750 kilometres east of northern Australia, 500 kilometres northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea. Wikipedia