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Small Island Developing States
- The BahamasThe Bahamas sits at an unusual crossroads of geography and identity. Officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, it comprises 700 islands and more than 2,500…
- Marshall IslandsThe Marshall Islands is 98.62 percent water. No other sovereign state on Earth carries so much ocean against so little land.
- TuvaluTuvalu sits roughly midway between Hawaii and Australia, a scattering of nine islands so flat that the highest point anywhere in the country rises just 4.6…
- Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda sits where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Caribbean Sea, a nation of two main islands and dozens of smaller ones covering just 440 square…
- GrenadaGrenada is the smallest of the eastern Caribbean's spice nations, and yet its national flag carries a nutmeg. That single image hints at how much one tree…
- Saint LuciaSaint Lucia holds a distinction unlike almost any other place on earth. This small island, covering just 617 square kilometres in the eastern Caribbean, has…
- DominicaDominica is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Kalinago, the people who once called the island Wai'tu…
- Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and Nevis holds a distinction that most people never think to wonder about: at just 261 square kilometres and roughly 48,000 inhabitants, it is…
- MauritiusMauritius sits roughly 1100 nautical miles off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar, an island country in the Indian Ocean.
- American SamoaAmerican Samoa sits 2,200 miles southwest of Hawaii, making it the southernmost territory the United States holds. It straddles one of the most remote…
- Federated States of MicronesiaThe Federated States of Micronesia spreads across the western Pacific just north of the equator, its 607 islands strung over almost 2700 km.
- GuamGuam's de facto motto is "Where America's Day Begins," a phrase that points to the island's place against the International Date Line.
- United States Virgin IslandsThe United States Virgin Islands sit about 40 miles east of Puerto Rico, a Caribbean territory that is simultaneously American soil and a place unlike…
- Cook IslandsThe Cook Islands sits in the South Pacific Ocean, 15 specks of land whose total area barely reaches 236.7 square kilometres, yet whose ocean territory, the…
- HaitiHaiti is the only country in history established by a slave revolt. On the 1st of January 1804, in the town of Gonaives, the leaders of the Haitian…
- Puerto RicoPuerto Rico sits about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, a Caribbean archipelago that is neither a U.S. state nor an independent nation. Its people have held U.
- GuyanaGuyana sits on the northern coast of South America, the only country on the mainland that holds English as its official language.
- JamaicaThe Ciboney people who first lived here called the island Xaymaca, a word meaning the Land of Wood and Water, or the Land of Springs.
- Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands sits at one of the most contested crossroads on Earth, a scatter of more than a thousand islands in Melanesia where some of the bloodiest…
- SingaporeSingapore sits about one degree of latitude north of the equator, roughly 137 kilometres of sea between it and the line that divides the globe.
- CubaCuba sits at the convergence of three bodies of water: the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. An archipelago of more than four…
- MaldivesThe Maldives sits an average of just 1.5 metres above the sea that surrounds it. Its highest natural point reaches only 2.4 metres, which makes it the…