MEPX
Chapter 6 of 10All chapters
  1. 1What a capital is
  2. 2Europe
  3. 3Asia
  4. 4Africa
  5. 5The Americas
  6. 6Oceania
  7. 7Purpose-built capitals
  8. 8Capitals that moved
  9. 9Names and renaming
  10. 10How many countries are there

Chapter 6 of 10

Oceania

Mostly ocean.

The capitals

Canberra for Australia, Wellington for New Zealand, Port Moresby for Papua New Guinea, Suva for Fiji, Honiara, Port Vila, Apia and Nuku'alofa.

  • Canberra was designed as a capital and built from 1913.
  • Nauru has no official capital; government offices sit in Yaren.

Scale

Several Pacific states have populations under a hundred thousand spread across hundreds of islands, which makes distance the defining fact of governing them.