What the records say
- When
- 1978
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Tuvalu
- Coordinates
- 8.51° S, 179.21° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 5887
- Area km2
- 24
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Tuvalu
Island country in Oceania
Tuvalu is an archipelagic country in the Polynesian sub-region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands, northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation