Oceania

Australia

An island continent of desert, reef, and coast

Federated States of Micronesia

Four island states across the western Pacific

Fiji

The crossroads of the South Pacific

Kiribati

Astride the equator and the date line

Marshall Islands

Coral atolls between Hawaii and the Philippines

Nauru

The world's smallest island republic

New Zealand

Two islands of mountains, fjords, and Maori heritage

Palau

Limestone islands and a sea of jellyfish

Papua New Guinea

A land of a thousand languages

Samoa

The heart of Polynesia

Solomon Islands

A Melanesian archipelago of forest and reef

Tonga

The last Polynesian kingdom

Tuvalu

A low-lying nation on the front line of climate change

Vanuatu

A volcanic chain in the southwest Pacific