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Countries of Oceania

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Oceania has 14 countries. Don't try to learn them all at once: follow the route below through 4 small groups of neighbours, with capitals, flags and a memory hook for the trickiest shapes, then test yourself.

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Your route through Oceania

1
Australia and New Zealand
2 countries

2 countries, a good size for one sitting. None of these touch each other by land, so learn each one by where it sits compared with its nearest neighbours.
- AustraliaCanberra
- New ZealandWellington
Memory hooks to start you off
- New Zealand
  Two long islands, like a pair of slim boots, lie across the sea south-east of Australia.
- Australia
  Australia is the huge slab of land south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, with New Zealand a sea away to the south-east.
2
Polynesia
3 countries

3 countries, a good size for one sitting. None of these touch each other by land, so learn each one by where it sits compared with its nearest neighbours.
Memory hooks to start you off
- Tuvalu
  Tuvalu is a tiny string of islands north of Fiji and south of Kiribati.
- Tonga
  Tonga is a long string of islands south-east of Fiji and just south of Samoa.
3
Melanesia
4 countries

4 countries, a good size for one sitting. None of these touch each other by land, so learn each one by where it sits compared with its nearest neighbours.
Memory hooks to start you off
- Fiji
  Fiji is a scatter of islands in the South Pacific, east of Vanuatu and west of Tonga.
- Solomon Islands
  The Solomon Islands are a double line of islands east of Papua New Guinea, running north-west to south-east.
4
Micronesia
5 countries

5 countries, a good size for one sitting. None of these touch each other by land, so learn each one by where it sits compared with its nearest neighbours.
Memory hooks to start you off
- Nauru
  Nauru is a single dot of an island just below the equator, west of Kiribati.
- Palau
  Palau is a short curved chain of islands in the far west of the Pacific, east of the Philippines.