The longest River in Papua New Guinea, is the Sepik River; which is approximately 1,100km (700 miles).
Tuvalu joined the United Nations on 5/9/2000. In his speech at the flag raising ceremony at the UN, Prime Minister Ionatana Ionatana said that Tuvalu would benefit from the UN's education and development programs.
Yes, Tuvalu is sinking beneath the water surface. However, it is not literally sinking, it is the sea level rising that causes it to 'sink', due to global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps.
According to the CIA World Factbook, the major imports for Tuvalu are food, animals, fuel, and manufactured goods.
Consisting of nine islands, Tuvalu's highest elevation is about 15 feet above sea level.
Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) is part of Oceania , it's an island nation, consisting of nine atolls, eight of them are inhabitable, in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands and Fiji.
Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, consisting of nine islands, in the region known as Oceania.
Global warming affects tuvalu because Tuvalu is extremely low lying and so, as sea levels rise because of the melting ice caps, it will flood and go underwater very fast. it is considered the most supsceptible area to climate change.
All Tuvalu is flooding because of the rising sea level. They can't grow any thing because the farmland areas are too salty and muddy and they can't grow any food. If they can't grow anything how will they live?
Tuvalu is the official country name. It used to be called Ellice Islands.
A small Commonwealth island of the about 2000 northwest coast of Australia. It's one of a pacific nations.