Tuvalu

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• 🏝An island country in Polynesia consisting of three reef islands and six true atolls, located midway between Hawaii and Australia.
• 🏳️What does its flag mean? The light blue field symbolizes the Pacific Ocean waters surrounding the low-lying atolls. The Union Jack in the canton honors historical constitutional ties with Great Britain. Nine gold stars represent the nine islands that comprise the Tuvalu archipelago, arranged geographically correctly when viewed from east to west.
• 💻The .tv windfall: Tuvalu earned hundreds of millions of dollars licensing its highly valuable country-code domain .tv to international tech companies and streaming platforms like Twitch.
• ✈️Runway social hub: Because land is scarce, when planes are not taking off or landing at Funafuti International Airport, the airstrip becomes a public park for soccer, volleyball, and evening socializing.
• 🌊Fourth smallest nation: Tuvalu is the fourth smallest independent nation by land area (only 26 km² / 10 sq miles) and faces severe environmental threats due to sea level rise.