1. What do you know about the English-speaking countries in…?

4.  We have seperate presentations on the two largest countries in Oceania – Australia and New Zealand.  Some classify the Hawaii islands as part of Oceania, but here they are included in the North America geography presentation.  The rest of Oceania has around 10 million inhabitants – the majority of whom use some form of English as an official language or as a means of communication.

8.  Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country, with over 820 indigenous languages – 12% of the world's total, but most have fewer than 1,000 speakers.  There are 3 official languages for PNG. English is an official language and is the language of government and the education system, but it is not widely spoken.  The primary lingua franca of the country is Tok Pisin (Pidgin English).

10.  The population of Fiji is mostly made up of native Fijians, who are Melanesians (54.3%), although many also have Polynesian ancestry, and Indo-Fijians (38.1%), descendants of Indian contract labourers brought to the islands by the British colonial powers in the 19th century.  English, Fijian and Hindi are the official languages.

14. An island nation of 250,000 inhabitants in the South Pacific. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, lies 1,750 kilometres east of northern Australia, near New Guinea.

17.  Caroline Islands, politically divided between Palau (20,000) and the Federated States of Micronesia (130,000)  Gilbert Islands, the main part of Kiribati (95,000)  Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territories of Guam (160,000) and the Northern Mariana Islands (77,000)  Marshall Islands (73,000)  Nauru (12,000)  Wake Island, a United States Minor Outlying Island  MOST OF THE ISLANDS ARE EITHER AMERICAN TERRITORIES OR INFLUENCED BY THE USA, SO ENGLISH IS THE MAIN LINGUA FRANCA HERE TOO.

19. The Polynesian Triangle is drawn by connecting the points of Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island.

22.  The population of American Samoa stands at about 55,000 people, 95% of whom live on the largest island, Tutuila.

24.  Would you like to visit them? I WOULD, BUT THE FLIGHTS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE!  If you would like to learn more, you could read the following articles:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronesia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia  http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/english _south_pacific.htm http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclangunit/english _south_pacific.htm